In a division loaded with talent, Scott "Young Guns" Jorgensen is a name to remember.

The WEC bantamweight has made a nomadic journey to the Zuffa-owned company; growing up in Alaska, wrestling collegiately at Boise State and cutting his teeth as a professional back home in the Alaska Fighting Championships before getting the call to join the top bantamweight class in the world.

Currently preparing for his WEC 43 fight with Noah Thomas, Jorgensen took time out of his training schedule to talk about The Smurf Turf at Boise State, the possibilities of a WEC / UFC merger and answer the always entertaining Keyboard Kimura Questionnaire.

This is the K2 Interview Series ... with Scott Jorgensen.

First things first - are you superstitious at all? I ask because every fighter who has ever done an interview with me or even said yes and then backed out has lost.

No, I'm not superstitious at all.

Now that that is out of the way, what's the deal with the Smurf Turf at Boise State?

It's a marketing scheme and it's smart. They actually got grandfathered in; now all the turf has to be green like normal, what you see was actually grandfathered in, so it looks like they'll be keeping it.

Was the football team tired of getting no attention, so they had to go out and get blue turf?

They've had it here for a while, I guess, long before I got here. It's something; they've slowly worked their way up the ranks. When I was in college, we weren't nearly as good as they are now.

I think it was purely to get some attention and pretty soon they started getting some tough guys and built a good team.

Well everyone knows who they are thanks to the blue turf.

Yeah, I either get one of two questions: it's either the blue turf or "Do you guys eat a lot of French fries and potato skins?"

So how do you get from growing up in Alaska to wrestling in college in Idaho?

I actually grew up St. George, Utah. Born in Utah, raised there until I was fourteen; I lived in Utah longer than I lived anywhere else. And then because of my dad's job we moved to Alaska in '96.

I lived there for four years. I wrestled there in high school and I had my wrestling coach up there Lennie Zalesky, he's the head coach now at UC-Davis, who coached me for two years up there. My senior year I had a chance to move down here to Boise to get recruited because Alaska doesn't have huge exposure for wrestling, so my parents moved me down here to get into college.

I knew the Boise State program; I got accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy and into Nebraska on scholarships and decided to stay here in Boise. I've been here since 2000; I love this place. It's a nice town to live in.

You were a three-time PAC 10 champ in college. Are there any guys you faced on the mats who have made the transition to MMA?

Nobody in my weight class that I've heard of outside of a guy named Matt Sanchez who wrestled at Cal State-Bakersfield. He's the manager for Ultimate Fitness up at Urijah's and he's on the U.S. World Grappling Team.

He's a really good grappler and really good submission-wise. He's had a couple of fights; I think he's 1-1, but...