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BYU football: Pitta returning to site of 1st huge game for BYU

No need to worry about Air Force. Easy game for BYU. Its the next one that will kill them. Utah will win that handily.

Pitta and Collie will really have to step up if Unga is out. If Pitta can repeat his performance, that should give strength to the team that they can win, and hopefully boost the whole team.

I still say let Unga sit if he is still sore so he can be used the following week when BYU really needs him.

Keep it up Pitta!!!

Can you stay in top 20?
Can you get a win
'till we meet you

We want a win
against a team in top 20

Sammy, my boy, do you see that big bullseye on the front and back of every Utah Jersey? BYU will hit that target so many times that the yewts will not even know what hit them. Besides, I doubt that the team will even be able to get in the stadium because of there big heads. This game has written all over it a big fall for the haughty yewts.
GO COURGARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sammy, go suck your thumb!!!!!!!!!

The coach's comments about the cut block are dead-on. This is a safety issue that the NCAA has failed to address.

High School Federation rules prohibit the cut block. College rules prohibit the cut block in some situations (open field, moving toward the original spot where the play started), but the exceptions allow the cut block under so many circumstances that the partial prohibition is unenforceable.

High DOES allow but blocks inside the tackle and at the first level (meaning the line of scrimmage). It would be very difficult to take away that block and having played Offensive and Defensive line, I don't think it should be taken away.

I couldn't agree more. Pitta's size makes him a target for the cut block because defenders have a hard time bringing him down with a traditional tackle. That's actually one thing I noticed at the SDSU game last week...the Aztec defenders almost always delivered the cut block to bring him down. I kept waiting to see if he'd hurdle them, but he never did.

In short, I agree that the cut block is a safety issue. If the NCAA is going to penalize the horse-collar tackle, they should penalize the cut block too.

Cougs want high school rules... typical BYU whining.... GO UTES!!!!!!!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Boring. Pitta will be crushed by Air Force.

If I read schedules and results right, BYU has beat Utah the past two years in a row.

I think the arrogant Utes need a scoreboard that shows they have more points before they can claim any type of supremacy.

The Utes have big heads because of how "other" teams have played, but forget to look in the mirror and remember how they needed luck, and the mistakes of a freshman kicked to beat TCU.

Typical Ute fans, resting on the laurels of other teams. Hiding under their beds and in their closets, afraid to take on the Mighty Cougars.

Sure they know how to twist the names, like a third grader, cubers, kittycats, kitty-litter, kittens, BYWho, etc. but they just don't know how to beat BYU.

Bragging rights come when you win, not when BYU wins.

Put a lid on it, do it on the field, and until that day, stay jolly, and call us "Sir", Utah cannot claim anything except losing to the Mighty Cougars.

Looking forward to the quiet RES again at the end of the game, but us BYU fans will try to cheer loud enough to dent the thunderous silence again.

It's the SCOREBOARD, silly-Utes.....

Typical Utah Utes' obsession with an opponent that they just can't satisfy their craving for in spite of their repeated, persistent, demeaning, character-lacking efforts. Apparently it isn't enough for Utah to have a great year since this type of childish behavior continues on and on. Speaks volumes about the immature nature of the individual accusing others of whining.

Tackling is a safety issue too.... Sounds like Cougs want Powder Puff rules.... Wait until Utah ABSOLUTELY CRUSHES and MANHANDLES BYU.... then the Cougs will REALLY whine.... GO UTES!!!!

Air Force may crush Pitta, but as CSU found out, you try to stop Pitta and Collie then becomes unstoppable. Air Force will have a difficult time stopping both! GO COUGARS!

re: high school.

You mean "but" blocks are only allowed inside the tackles...darn...I was hoping to see a lot more of them in the open field.

and what's even more exciting for BYU fans,

is that Pitta, Hall, Collie, and George are all Juniors and Unga is only a Sophomore.

And, McKay Jacobson, BYU's offensive rookie of the year in 2006 with 28 catches for 547 yards and 3 TDs, will be back to replace Michael Reed as the wide receiver on the side opposite Collie.

Whining about BYU.

Typical Ute fan.

Kyle has "whined" about the AFA cut blocks before.

NFL teams have "whined" about cut blocks for years. The NFL has fined players for cut blocks.

What have you done to come off as such a "tough guy"?

Typical Ute fan, whining about BYU.

Yeah we had a great team in 04 all you kittens keep saying we have big heads but we have big players that fill those heads. SD is next then we start on the work of taking you out. You will not get a victory this weekend everyone will say you were looking ahead to the UTES...keep looking.....

i love BYU Football! THEY best beat the UTES!! GO BYU all the way babay! i love you guys! #4 your my hero!!! LOVE ME