At the risk of sounding like a bad Speech class final, Merriam-Webster’s applicable definition of legacy is thus: “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past“. So with that in mind, I took a moment to think back over Brett Rypien’s career, and try to predict what his legacy will be in the Boise State program going forward.
There’s big games and final scores and epic comebacks, but past seasons in memory are more emotions and storylines than hard numbers and bowl games. Thus, my opinion of Brett’s legacy mostly ignores the stats and record books (even the TuStats, shocker!