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It's a puzzle: Scheduling requires moves, counter moves, cooperation

While I don't agree with some of the ADs comments, this was a great article that gives us fans a lot of insight as to what they have to deal with. A lot of us fans would prefer to just see the football schedules stacked with big names, but sometimes that isn't always possible. One thing's for sure, the Cougs and the Utes should stop scheduling FCS teams as much as possible, cuz it's a no win situation. If you win, it just damages your SOS and if you lose, your season and maybe bowl hopes are ruined.

Please Please Please don't schedule Hawaii. I know BYU gets some great recruits out of the islands, but playing at Hawaii brings up some great times like when Detmer got humiliated the night he won the Heisman, or when BYU's perfect streak with Doman and Staley was obliterated. Each of these games were played at 1am our time and BYU lost to a Hawaii team was clearly inferior. The players I knew on the team at the time said they just weren't as focuesed as they needed to be and they knew a lot of the players had been partying the night before the game. The same thing happened almost every year we'd play there and you want to go back? Look at history and ask yourself if the recruits are worth an almost guaranteed loss every other year.

If you have to schedule a game at Hawaii please at least REQUIRE A MORNING GAME and don't go out there until Thursday night so your players can at least get a half week of preparation.

I really don't think that making a wrong turn on a Rubik's Cube takes hours to fix. Considering that most people who can do it can do it in under five minutes, it doesn't seem like all that big a deal if you make one wrong move. Maybe if you broke it it would take hours to fix it, or go buy a new one...

Actually, Mr. Holmoe, the two times BYU played Texas ('87, '88) were both regular season games. Perhaps you are confusing them with Oklahoma, who BYU has only seen once--the '94 Insight.com (Copper) bowl.

Yes, it is true that BYU's recent forays to Hawaii have been rather embarrassing, but I wouldn't call the teams they faced inferior. That is just locker-room fodder we don't need to give the other team. Keep in mind this is a big emotional game for Hawaii; they really get up for the Cougars. If the Cougars have lost due to partying and lack of focus, then that is lack of coaching and discipline--two things that I think Bronco would probably have addressed. Meanwhile, why kill a great rivalry just because it hasn't gone well for us lately? Hawaii has also been the scene of some great BYU victories, as well as some of the greatest plays in BYU (& college) football history. Can anyone ever forget Kyle Morrell's leap to preserve a goal-line stand in '84? The only real reason for not seeing Hawaii on any kind of an ongoing basis is travel cost. Otherwise I'd wouldn't mind seeing them every few years or so to keep the rivalry alive.

If ever you're afraid of a game - especially against another mid-major, irrespective of how competitive that mid-major may be -- you're admitting to yourself you're not BCS material. While I think the BCS is a scam, it IS supposed to matchup the best teams possible. Anyone who is afraid of losing to Hawai'i (or Utah, BYU, Boise St, Fresno St, So. Mississippi, et al) isn't ready to be counted among the elite teams of college football.

GO TIGERS!!!

Best post of the year, by far. Keep it up.

Can we all just agree on one thing of an eternal nature?

Scheduling Utah State = Automatic Win

Thats why I love to see the Aggies beat the U and the Y, it only happens once in a decade or so but when it happens I love to hear them say why do we play the Aggies!!!!!

The Rubik's cube is not that hard it takes me at tops 2 minutes to solve it.

Re: Go to the islands 7:41 a.m.

I am not a cougar fan, but I have to admit that Kyle Morrell's play mentioned by the poster was and is the greatest individual defensive play I have ever seen in football, on any level. Period.

Hours of undoing a mistake on a Rubik's cube? If you get good at it you can easily solve the whole thing in a couple of minutes.

Uh...no.

It might feel that way cause its been awhile for the Aggies, but they will rise again to bite the U and Y. It might even happen to 1 or both this year.

Wait and see.

Go Aggies

BYU- i think Hawaii just scored AGAIN!!!

Whenever my Rubics Cube gets messed up I just buy a new one that's already solved. I wish my little brothers would leave them alone.

So is coach Whit going to start having our players work on Rubics Cubes? I think that's a much better idea than playing golf cuz they won't get grass stains on their pants.

The comments made by the AD's are telling of why BYU and Utah will never be considered to join any BCS conference. Wanting to play one or maybe two BCS teams each season so that they "have a chance at success" is lame. They won't ever be considered ready until they can play 4 or 5 BCS caliber schools and win 3 or 4 of them. If they were in the PAC10, they would see a schedule like this: USC, Cal, UCLA, Oregon St, Oregon, AZ State (and that might just be the road games). There are years where 4 of those teams could be top 25 with a couple of those in the top 10. So what the AD's believe is that we can't be successful playing a schedule like that. Whether they could or could not doesn't matter when the school's don't think they can. Beating up on a weak conference will never prove that we can and SHOULD play with the big boys! Talk is cheap. Prove it on the field.

If Hawaii is inferior, how come they have been to the BCS....?

I agree with the remark that if we schedule Hawaii they should be forced to play at a time where jet lag doesn't set in. I know many of us loved seeing the Hawaii game until they started beating us. All things considered though, they have enough of a home field advantage without playing late, late night games.

It may not seem like it because of a couple of high-profile blowouts, but BYU has actually played quite well in Hawaii. In fact, BYU is 11-8 vs Hawaii on the island, and 19-8 vs Hawaii overall.

In the last 10 meetings, BYU is 8-2 vs Hawaii, 3-2 on the island.


2002 BYU 35 Hawaii 32
2001 BYU 45 @Hawaii 72
1998 BYU 31 @Hawaii 9
1997 BYU 17 Hawaii 3
1996 BYU 45 @Hawaii 14
1995 BYU 45 Hawaii 7
1994 BYU 13 @Hawaii 12
1993 BYU 41 Hawaii 38
1992 BYU 32 @Hawii 36
1991 BYU 35 Hawaii 18

Hawaii is a great rival and I hope to see them on the schedule in the future.

New York area BYU fans need the Cougars to play Rutgers.