Good News : New Orleans Saints Player Kellen Moore stays gold in Vegas finale
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Kellen Moore, 50 wins in and through with the college game, is as practiced at the craft of the postgame presser as he is in the pocket. With his NCAA career wrapped, and no threat of forced running of stadium steps lurking over his shoulder, Moore had not one unkind word to say about the situation Boise State’s football team found itself in Thursday night after a 56-24 rout of Arizona State in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas. [RECAP | BOX] The No. 8 Broncos put a flourishing touch on the winningest four-year streak in FBS history in a December game. An early December game. Again. You know this — but you’d never know it looking at or listening to Kellen Moore.
When asked about his impact on the Boise State football program, Moore speaks only of being fortunate — that’s his keyword. “Fortunate” to have been put in the situation he was in, to be “surrounded by great people.”
It’s a neat experience,” said the all-time winningest quarterback in FBS college football history. Since Moore toes the straight and narrow, let’s let the two coaches of the 2011 Las Vegas Bowl throw some well-deserved handfuls of glitter his way.
Dennis Erickson: “His anticipation, he made a couple throws where he threw that football, and the receiver hadn’t even come close to coming out of his break. So he breaks, and boom! The ball is there. You can’t defend that.”
Chris Petersen, settling himself in, before the first question is even voiced: “I have no idea what we’re gonna do without Kellen Moore, so don’t ask it.”
That anticipation Erickson speaks of has been a particular quality of Boise State ball this season. This is not a team that’s looked clunky often over the past couple dozen games, but beginning with September’s kickoff game against Georgia, it was difficult to even see moving parts. It was clear the Broncos had leveled up for 2011, lighting up the scoreboard apparently without conscious thought, as though touchdown production was simply their natural occupation.
