Bob Kustra’s “pet project” of building a baseball team had looked like a pipe dream for a long time, but with Kustra announcing his retirement effective at the end of June, his project has been kicked in to high gear. First the Broncos announced that they wouldn’t be backing the proposed downtown stadium project but building their own baseball park near campus, and now Boise State’s first baseball coach (in the “new” era) has been chosen—Gary Van Tol.
Van Tol should be a familiar name to the Boise baseball community, as he was the skipper in the Chicago Cubs development organization for 11 years.