News Release

Dec. 13, 2006

FIESTA FEVER: In anticipation of the upcoming Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Boise State University’s Office of Communications has identified story ideas that would be of interest to the community. Following is one of these stories. Feel free to use as written, or contact the sources listed at the bottom for more information.

BSU Alum, Now at OU, has Multiple Ties to Fiesta Bowl

Even though Robert Lloyd has never been a huge football fan, it was hard to escape the football fever surrounding the hometown team during his growing up years. After all, the Boise State Broncos tied up the Big Sky Conference for most of the ’70s and earned the national 1-AA championship in 1980. Although the ’80s were a quiet decade for the team, they were still the local favorites when Lloyd graduated from Meridian High in 1990 and enrolled at Boise State as a biology major. By the time he graduated in 1996, the Broncos had added another conference championship (1994) to their win list.

Fast forward a few years and Lloyd is once again immersed in football fever. Only this time he’s a graduate of a medical school in Glendale, Ariz. (where the Fiesta Bowl will be played) and a resident at the University of Oklahoma’s diagnostic radiology program — a lone Bronco surrounded by Sooners in a land where football is life.

“In Oklahoma, football is pretty close to a religion; people take it very seriously,” said Lloyd, who attended Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Midwestern University Medical School before moving to Oklahoma. “Despite the fact that I don’t follow football much, it’s sometimes fun to say “BSU would be a good team to win,’” he says, chuckling. “It gets people all riled up.”

Lloyd said most Oklahomans don’t know much about Idaho. In fact, many people can’t even locate it on a map, often confusing it with Iowa. But they do know about the blue football field, and now they know about the Bronco football team as well. They also know that Boise isn’t far from the University of Oregon, where the Sooners suffered a crushing one-point loss blamed on a bad referee call, causing what Lloyd calls “a wave of depression” to sweep across Oklahoma.

Lloyd suspects he’ll be on call Jan. 1, so won’t be watching the game. “But I’ll follow who wins,” he said.

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Contact: Robert Lloyd, (405) 715-4312, Robert-lloyd@ouhsc.edu
Media contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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