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Vandal Nation’s 2012 Idaho football projected depth chart – Ver. 3 (Update 8/23)
(Update 8/23): This afternoon was the last time the team will hit the SprinTurf before kickoff against Eastern next Thursday. The Vandals will spend game week in the Kibbie Dome with practices closed...
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Better Know a Foe: Week 1 (Thursday) v. Eastern Washington Eagles
Take a good look at that picture. That is Washington cornerback Desmond Trufant hauling down an interception in the endzone to seal a 30-27 victory over Eastern Washington for the Huskies at Husky...
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Game recap: Eastern Washington 20, Idaho 3
The words that can be used to describe Idaho’s 20-3 season-opening loss to Eastern Washington range from poor to pathetic. It was a tale of two sides of the ball for a Vandals team that was without...
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Weekend Volleyball recap: California dreamin’
The Vandals hit the state of California dreaming of wins, and were left completely blanked. Not the kind of momentum the Vandal ladies were looking for before facing powerhouses UCLA and Hawaii next...
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Better know a Foe: Humanitarian Bowl rubber match – Week 2 at Bowling Green
It was the two-point conversion that re-defined what football was at the University of Idaho. The standard to which coach Robb Akey’s program is held was set on December 30, 2009 when Nathan Enderle...
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Monday Akey-isms: Week 3 – ‘We’ve got nothing to lose’
Just about everything about Idaho’s performance against Bowling Green last Saturday night was a drastic improvement over the week one 20-3 loss to Eastern Washington – except for the final result. The...
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LSU week practice report, Pay-Per-View information, other notes and numbers
The Vandals are off the practice field Wednesday, the last one open to the public and media before the team flies down to Baton Rouge on Friday. Not a ton to report, they were pretty standard...
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Better Know a Foe – week 3 at LSU edition – Geaux Time
It’s anybody’s guess on what will terrify the Vandals most Saturday night when the team walks out of Tiger Stadium’s visitors tunnel – The 450-pound live Bengal tiger caged up on the sideline staring...
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Monday Akey-isms: 9/17 – Anticipating a breakthrough against the Pokes
For 30 minutes last Saturday night in Baton Rouge the Vandals seemed to be, somewhat, going tit for tat with the No. 2 (or No. 3, depending on your preferred poll) team in the nation. Twice the Vandals...
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Better Know a Foe: Week 4 Lasso the Pokes edition
This week something has to give. Two teams will walk in to the Kibbie Dome in week four without losses, one will walk out with a win. The opponent this week is the Wyoming Cowboys, who the Vandals see...
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Bringing the heat
After two solid defensive spring scrimmages, Vandal Nation caught up with Idaho defensive coordinator Mark Criner and seniors Aaron Grymes and Rob Siavii. Hear what they have to say about spring...
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2012 NFL Mock Mascot Draft — 4th and Downtown
Today on Vandal Nation’s radio show “4th and Downtown,” hosts Madison McCord and Theo Lawson talked about which college mascots would get drafted and where they would go if NFL teams picked up mascots...
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Toomer swooped up by Seattle
Theo Lawson Argonaut The Seattle Seahawks have prolonged the career of Idaho inside linebacker Korey Toomer, after drafting Toomer with the 19th pick in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Although...
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Athletic Department mum on WAC rumors
Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear declined comment to Vandal Nation Monday on rumors of WAC schools looking to leave the conference. In the last week, news has surfaced of impending defections of Utah...
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WACocalypse has begun – Texas State to Sun Belt is official
Courtesy of TxStateBobcats.com Texas State University has accepted a bid to join the Sun Belt conference in 2013-2014 the schools’ official website reported this morning. The University of Texas System...
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Mass exodus of WAC schools has officially begun – Idaho AD to address media...
The day of reckoning has officially arrived. The WACpocalypse is upon us – and nobody is surprised. The Mountain West has officially added Utah State and San Jose State. Conference USA has announced...
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Rob Spear conference realignment teleconference
University of Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear addressed the media on Friday in a teleconference discussing UI’s future after five WAC schools left the conference earlier in the day....
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Idaho to fight for its FBS future Athletic Director Rob Spear says
The future of University of Idaho football may be no more clearer today than it was last week. But Athletic Director Rob Spear assured Vandal Nation and other media members in a conference call today...
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Idaho WR Ken McRoyal passes away at the age 22
By Sean Kramer and Madison McCord The University of Idaho family has lost one of its own. The athletic department has confirmed that wide receiver Ken McRoyal has died in his home state of California...
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Coach Robb Akey remembers Ken McRoyal
Head coach Robb Akey was made available this afternoon for comment to the media to address the recent death of WR Ken McRoyal. Full audio of Akey’s comments can be found here. Filed under: Football
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NFL Vandals in 2012: Princeton McCarty
Princeton McCarty was known by Idaho fans for one thing: Speed. That speed racked him up over 2,000 yards of rushing offense during his four year career as a Vandal, including his career long 82 yard...
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Idaho men’s basketball assistant accepts WSU position
Washington State announced Tuesday that it has named Ray Lopes assistant men’s basketball coach. Lopes had previously served as associate head coach for the Vandals under Don Verlin. Though Lopes...
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NFL Vandals in 2012: Tre’Shawn Robinson
Tre’Shawn Robinson made a name for himself at Idaho, flying around the field and hitting people from his middle linebacker spot. Now in an NFL training camp, Robinson will be afforded the same...
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A summer update from Vandal Nation – Idaho cancels HS football camp, Akey’s...
It must be summer in Moscow. Looking out the window it’s pouring rain just a day after what felt like 80 degree weather. Gotta love it. Hopefully it being summer is also a good excuse for the lack of...
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A daughter’s plight to get Vandal legend father in Pro Football Hall of Fame
A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to speak with the daughter of one of the most legendary players in Vandal football history – Jerry Kramer. His daughter, Alicia Kramer, is spearheading the effort...
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Robb Akey, Idaho, speak at WAC Football media days
With actual football season right around the corner we get to take just a bit of a break from the conference re-alignment chatter and all of the uncertainty for one thing that we know for sure: That...
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Legendary “Voice of the Vandals” passes away
By Madison McCord Former Idaho Vandals football and basketball broadcaster Bob Curtis passed away Wednesday at his home in Colfax. Curtis was 87. Curtis started his career as a senior at Washington...
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Coach Akey speaks on story lines for Idaho fall football camp
Finish. Finish. Finish. Finish. Say that word about 755 more times and you will arrive at how many times coach Robb Akey said that he used the word, or that theme, last week at WAC Media days in Las...
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Wayne Moses joins Idaho’s staff as RB coach, other fall practice notes from...
Coach Robb Akey made the final addition to his staff yesterday bringing on experienced running backs coach Wayne Moses. Moses coached last year at UCLA and has had stops with the St. Louis Rams,...
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Practice notes through Thursday, post-scrimmage analysis, new WR impressing
It’s been a week now since Idaho football kicked off fall pre-season practice. Since Thursday’s opening practice the team has gone through its first couple of practices in full pads, had a couple...
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Dominique Blackman named starting quarterback, notes from second scrimmage,...
Update (8/13/2012 5:30 P.M.): Dominique Blackman named starting quarterback We first broke on twitter earlier this afternoon a tweet from Dominique Blackman that proclaimed he had been told he’s been...
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Idaho Vandals fall football scrimmage No. 3 report
Idaho’s third football scrimmage of the fall was probably the least eventful to thing to come out of the Vandalsphere on Thursday, but still it was played and the optimism brimming from it...
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President Nellis, AD Rob Spear speak on SBOE vote for independence/Big Sky
Update (8/17/12): University President Duane Nellis and athletic director Rob Spear met with media members Friday afternoon after the State Board of Education vote. The actual announcement for...
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Monday Akey-isms: 9/24 – Team growth, packing the Dome, travel and more
All throughout the fall the emphasis of this Idaho football team was supposed to be finish. From the t-shirts, to throwing four fingers in the air during the fourth quarter of every game, and practice...
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Monday Akey-Isms – Week 6 – “It’s homecoming, so why don’t y’all come on home”
Idaho coach Robb Akey was short and succinct about last Saturday’s game at North Carolina. After all, the Vandals did get blown out in every sense of the term, coming home with shields battered after a...
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Better Know a Foe – Week 6 – Welcoming alumni back to Moscow
Welcome back to the hundreds, or thousands, of University of Idaho alumni making the trek back to the Palouse for the weekend. The weekend festivities will be plenty, though the one that we all...
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Monday Akey-isms 10/8 – “Take what they give you until they give you the game”
It wasn’t quite ideal, it wasn’t perfect, and it surely wasn’t pretty, but dangit, it was a win. That’s about the attitude Idaho coach Robb Akey had Monday when addressing the media about Idaho’s 26-18...
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WAC adds Utah Valley, CSUB – What it means for Idaho
Utah Valley and Cal-State Bakersfield have accepted invitations to the Western Athletic Conference, the WAC announced this morning. The addition of the two schools is with the intention of preserving...
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Better Know a Foe: Week 7 – Everything’s bigger in Texas (State)
Idaho takes to the road this week to San Marcos, Texas, home of newly minted FBS program Texas State. The Bobcats will enter the Sun Belt next year, though for now the focus is on its debut and only...
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Idaho Men’s basketball tips off fall practice – Video interviews
Idaho Men’s basketball held its first organized team practice of the fall Friday evening on campus. We caught up with coach Don Verlin afterwards, along with G/F Mike McChristian and F Stephen Madison,...
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Monday Akey-isms – 10/15 – “Consistency” is the word
There wasn’t a ton addressed this Monday at the news conference, following a 38-7 loss at Texas State which lacked any real storyline from the Vandal perspective. Idaho appeared to get out of the game...
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News on Idaho 2013 independence scheduling front
During the Vandal radio network post-game show of Idaho’s loss at Texas State, Idaho athletic director Rob Spear said Idaho currently has 11 games lined up so far the 2013 season. Spear said in the...
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Know a Foe – Week 7 – Keeping it La. Technical
The Idaho football program is being backed in to a cliff, and one more step back will push it all over the edge. Idaho sits at 1-6 and one more loss means Idaho will go bowl-less for a third...
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2013 Independent schedule: Spear likely to announce seven more
Athletic director Rob Spear will hold a 4:30 PM PT conference call today and will likely announce the remaining games for Idaho’s 2013 Independent schedule. In addition to the four games that have been...
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OFFICIAL: 2013 football schedule
The following is Idaho’s football schedule for the 2013 season, per an e-mail sent from the athletic department. The final game will be against an unannounced BCS opponent. In a conference call,...
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Idaho coach Robb Akey terminated
Idaho football coach Robb Akey has been terminated effective immediately and Offensive Coordinator Jason Gesser will take over as head coach on an interim basis, the athletic department announced...
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News Conference — Gesser takes over as interim coach
Idaho football interim coach Jason Gesser and Athletic Director Rob Spear discuss the replacement of former coach Robb Akey, expectations for the remainder of the 2012 season and the Vandals’ coaching...
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WAC preseason polls announced, Idaho too low
The preseason suspension of Idaho center Kyle Barone must have really hurt the Vandal men’s basketball team who have been picked to finish sixth and fifth in the coaches and media polls respectively....
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Robb Akey survey
Did Rob Spear make the right decision to let go of Robb Akey during the season or should he have waited until the season’s end? We want your opinion. Follow the link below to complete our survey and we...
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We’ve moved! Check out a new home for same great coverage of Idaho athletics
For the past three years or so, this blog has been our home to get you the information about Vandal athletics you need to know. Well now the time has come that we’ve grown out of our studio apartment...
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