The Boise State football program honored legendary coach Lyle Smith before Saturday’s season opener by dropping 101 blue-and-orange daisies at his statue outside Albertsons Stadium during the Bronco Walk.
The biggest logistical challenge: Finding flowers in that color. Daisies were the favorite of Smith, who died in July at 101 years old.
The secret solution? The Bronco painted the white flowers in school colors.
The flowers were carried by players and coaches during their traditional walk from the Student Union Building to the Bleymaier Football Center. Many of them patted the left knee of Smith’s statue after delivering the flower.