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Anybody, anytime, anywhere: Is this Fresno State's year?

By Graham Watson
ESPN.com

Monday, August 18, 2008

Pat Hill needed a hook, a selling point, a motto. When he came to Fresno State in 1997, the talent was depleted. The team hadn't been to a bowl game in three years, and recruiting was starting to go stagnant. Kids didn't want to play for a non-BCS school in California when the Pac-10 controlled the state. So Hill started scheduling nonconference games against those BCS teams in his state. He added a couple other major schools from major conferences. And all of a sudden, Hill had a nonconferen ...

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