Boise State’s heralded football team will move from the WAC to the Mountain West Conference, effective this fall, and the Broncos have already started to make friends. San Diego State’s head coach, who I’m told is a guy named Rocky Long, is already whining about the famous blue turf in Boise’s home digs.

Rocky Long? That can’t be right, can it?

“I think they ought to get rid of that blue turf. I think it’s unfair,” said Long, the former New Mexico coach who is in his first season as the Aztecs’ head coach.

When asked to expand, Long said, “it takes the visiting team a quarter or two to get used to that different field.”

Long said players “track the ball differently” on the blue turf, particularly since Boise State traditionally wears all-blue uniforms on the blue turf.

–Idaho Statesman, via FanNation.

I honestly haven’t watched enough games at Bronco Stadium to really weigh in with an educated opinion, but if the field is flat and the players are standing up, what difference could the color of the turf possibly make? My only gripe is that it would be harder to visually pick up dog debris. You’d need a pencil just to get that stuff out of your cleats.

Everyone is raving about how great a March we’ve seen from UConn guard Kemba Walker; he played the entire game and scored 36 points in last night’s win against San Diego State. But this–taking a dive against a San Diego State player who shoulder-checked him during a timeout–is inexcusable, and the hairless freak in stripes that called a technical on the Aztecs directly altered the flow of the game. SDSU was pulling away when UConn called this timeout. Kemba made both free throws, and the Aztecs–the victims of a junk whistle–backed off defensively and let the Huskies back in it.

Even with Kemba throwing both of his arms in the air and falling to the ground, this is not a foul, even if it is “dead ball contact.” It’s ridiculous that these GD refs are indulging idiots that get brushed on the shoulder and flail like they’re having an epileptic seizure. That’s it. I quit sports forever.