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BYU football: Unga takes on challenge to improve game

The cougs will be solid this year with the growth of unga and hall; just hope collie is back to full strength soon. GO COUGS!

Sounds like a great year again.

I'm so excited for the season that I read everything anyone writes about BYU football as soon as it gets posted. It doesn't help though. August 30 couldn't come soon enough.

For 2008, go Cougars!!!!!!!!!!!

Unga will suffer the 'Sophomore Slump' this year. BYU is headed for 8 wins or less. Hall will struggle as well as he will throw for fewer yards and TDs than last year, but more INTs.

Get your list of excuses ready, BYU fans. Your gonna need 'em.

Wishful thinking from a BYU hater.

BYU is going to have an outstanding season. No excuses needed.

It's funny that some Utah fans are in full lather hoping that all of BYU's starters go down with injuries. They must be scared to death that their beloved Utes won't have a chance against a full-strength BYU team in November.

To: Alma the Wiser

Take this to the bank and draw interest on it. The Utes will lose at Michigan, Ute fans will turn on the team, and they will call for the head of Whittingham....same tune, different year! All this after the first game!

I have not read all of this article, but just by the headline itself I want to post this...if Unga has anything he can improve on, watch out Mountain West Conference and any other opponent. The kid is a STUD!

Afraid of BYU at full strength?!?!?!? Hardly.

I am looking forward to UTAH being at full strength for a change.

The last three years, Utah has had issues at QB and elsewhere, going into the rivalry game.

'05 Starting QB injured, won with a backup QB.

'06 Starting QB redshirting, one play away from winning with backup QB.

'07 Starting QB playing with seperated shoulder, starting RB out for the season with injury, best WR out for the season with injury, best OL out for the season with injury, and the list of additional players playing with sprains and strains was every bit as long as what BYU was dealing with. Again, just one play away from winning.

Yes, UTAH at full strength is TERRIFYING for BYU fans. UTAH WILL WIN MORE GAMES THAN BYU THIS YEAR, UTAH WILL WIN THE MWC, UTAH WILL WIN ANOTHER BOWL GAME.

It is really sad that Ute fans have to get on hear and bash the cougs and that coug fans have to bash the Utes. The season hasn't started yet and all of this pointless bickering is giving me a headache. Let them play it out on the field.

Good for Utah. But in case you didn't notice, this article was about BYU, not Utah. So take your little Utah song and dance and overconfident predictions and superlatives, and post them where someone cares to read them.

Ute fans = insecure.

Terrified. BYU fans are absolutely terrified.

ATW is a closet cougar fan. He likes victories so has to go to Provo to see them. Kwhit doesn't protect players from injury, sorry, i wouldn't expect any changes in their program. BYU will be the team to beat and as always, yewts will have several losses, excuses, and unexplainable ones at that:unlv, wyoming...etc

If you didn't notice last week's article stated that Hall played the last few games with a grade 3 seperated shoulder. In history they don't make notes about the players that weren't on the field, they talk about those that were and performed. Don't get me wrong I would hate to lose Unga or Hall but we need to understand thats the nature of the game.

To: Alma the not so Wise

EVERY college football team suffers injuries. The problem for Utah hasn't been injuries, it's been inconsistency. How else do you explain being able to beat OOC teams and bowl opponents, but losing to mediocre MWC teams, IN THE SAME season?

The injury excuse is getting old. Time for Utah players to man up and stop using injuries as an excuse for losing to mediocre teams.

If Utah was capable of beating UCLA at home, they were certainly capable of beating UNLV on the road, the very next week, and Air Force at home. It wasn't Utah's injury-riddled offense that gave up 27 points to UNLV. Utah's supposedly "superior" defense made a very pedestrian runner, Frank Summers, look like an MVP.

Frank Summers:
vs Utah: 29 att, 190 yards, 6.6 avg, 2 TDs
vs BYU: 13 att, 50 yards, 3.8 avg, 0 TDs

Dear Alma, Why would you use such a name and run it down with such idiotic comments. Alma, both 1 and 2 were wise men and would not be mouthing off without thinking first.

Let's see Utah QB out with shoulder seperation, BYU QB plays with shoulder seperation.

I hope both teams are undefeated come November 22 and BYU wins 100-0. What a great day that would be.

I wonder what Utah's excuses will be this year.

Utah should win the "Excuse Bowl" hands down this year.

Excuses are for rebuilding years, like last year. BYU's Defensive Backfield was decimated before the season, so there's my excuse for not going undefeated.

But I guess there can be exceptions: Utah football last year.

When BYU show up at LES North, and trounces a healthy Utah team, that's were excuses come in.

We'll see how sad you are when BYCC drops its first game against WA.

Unga and the Cougars. Now let's see if the Media can pronounced your name again properly on TV....LOL!!