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Collie has made his All-American case
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Some Ute fans like Ute #1 give Ute fans a bad name and show they have zero class.
Austin Collie is the BYU offense, without him the season would have been a much different for the Cougs.
Ute fan#1 show some respect for a great player. You can talk trash all you want, but the facts speak for themself.
Your day is coming very soon in the big BCS game. The Utes are going to get slammed and slammed hard. You dream season is coming to an end.
Then you will have he chance to read about how BJ couldn't win the big game.
I don't care much for BYU, but an honest appraisal of Collie is that he would perform well in any conference. Those who argue that he gets his 100+ yards per game (including the Utah game) simply because Hall has tunnel vision for him demonstrate how naive they are.
Utah's football team clearly is a step above BYU's this year. However, if I were a Ute fan, I would not minimize my opponents by tossing out juvenile invectives (leave that to the large group of intellectually limited BYU fans who post here) but rather take satisfaction in the fact that my team beat a team with players as talented as Collie and Pitta (with a defense that made a good quarterback look foolish).
BTW, unless his IQ is in the single digits, Collie will be in the 2009 NFL draft.
However, let's not give him more credit than he deserves for 4 and 18. Blown coverage by the Utes was a key part of that wonderful play.
4th and 18 forget about that?
I would like to see byu play ttu and wath all-american collie run all over them and see what crabtree can do
dont talk junk when you suffer from memory loss
You have to be kidding...
You caution a poster not to "talk junk when [he] suffers from memory loss."
...and you want BYU to play TTU after what TCU and Utah did you guys??? Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
Listen, 2nd grader. So there are no NFL player's who didn't play in the BCS? Like, say, Jerry Rice, the all-time best NFL receiver who didn't even play D-I. Or NFL Hall of Famers, like Terry Bradshaw, Steve Young (BYU), Larry Wilson (UofU), Jack Lambert, Fred Dean.
If the BcS is so tough, why are they afraid of playoff? Afraid of getting their hats handed to them by Utah, Boise, TCU, BYU, Ball State? Cowards.
You know who couldn't play for a BcS school OR a MWC school? You. That's why you're on here running off your mouth. If you can't play, talk. If you can't beat them, don't play them. No wonder you are a BcS fan.
Hey, I think we have a record for "4th and 18" posts. Is Harline still open? I know the Utes Defense is!
It's sad to see the once mighty Cougar program (70s and 80s) point to three events.... 1984, Harline open and 4th and 18 as their claim to fame. The last 18 years must have been very difficult for those that can't remember what it was like prior to LaVell.
Mac evened the programs and Urban/Wittingham moved the Utes past the Cougars. Utah is now the #1 non-BCS program. The Utes now have the bigger name in football to go along with their traditionally rich basketball program.
Class of the MWC? The University of Utah.
Oh, 4th and 18!
1). As a Ute fan I hate him (even if I respect his talent).
2). The NFL figures he's already two years down what with the mission. Add in a senior season and pro scouts will assume that his career will likely be three years shorter than normal for a pro.
good luck Utes in whatever BSC bowl you play in since you represent the MWC and the STATE of UTAH
most of all GO cougars!
BOO classless yewt morons who don't have the class or brains to realizie that the more they put down other great athletes by saying they had no competition -they are putting themselves down too!
As a BYU fan, I'll assume I'm not quite so intellectually limited that you were referring to me personally, and then say, "thank you." A little reason, logic, and a touch of intelligence would do wonders for the writers here, whether their preference is red or blue.
Collie is good. However, he had some amazing drops. As a subscriber to Dish, my first glimpse of a BYU game this year was the debacle at Utah State, which I believe was the beginning of the end for BYU's "Quest." (May the term rest in peace!.) I realize BYU fans are yelling, "Dotyman, you idiot! We won that game!" But an unbiased analysis would reveal that BYU began its descent from atop the MWC that night. A poor USU team made BYU look more than beatable, and Collie dropped some passes that even I could have caught. Those drops stand out almost, but not quite, as much as Max's INT's against Utah - they were choke-moments in critical situations. All-Americans make those plays (Crabtree at the end of the Texas game) when others don't. That's the difference between Collie and whoever will be named All-American.
Let�s break this down a bit. In my earlier post I documented that Collie as the #1 WR has 95 catches, #2 WR Reed has 40 catches and your #3 WR....(drum roll please)...has 7 catches.
Compare that with TTU: #1 WR Crabtree with 93, #2 WR Lewis with 71, #3 WR Morris with 64, #4 WR Swindall with 42, #5 WR Britton with 30 and #6 WR Leong with 17.
Look at the numbers and tell me the major reason Collie has the stats he does ISN'T because Hall has tunnel vision. Go ahead.
I'm not trying to take away from what Collie has done during his career. He is a GREAT receiver, but he IS NOT First Team All-American caliber and has proved nothing more than he is a very good MWC receiver.
I love the Utes and wish them great success but one must wish Mr. Collie good luck in his career.
If he does stay, it will be proof that he figures he will not achieve at the next level.
Still, he's probably a late 1st or early 2nd round talent. That could get him some pretty nice cash.
Still, I won't be choosing him on my fantasy team any time soon....
Is that why Utha was so excited to beat a down "storied" Michigan team, their past 5 years?
Dream all you want, you have 45,000 seats. Not very impressive.
It takes a program with history to fill 60,000 plus.
You are dreaming if you think Collie will be drafted in the 1st or 2nd round of the NFL draft more than likely he will go the 2nd day of the draft 3rd-4th rounder. I'm a huge fan of Collie's Skills but I'm also a realist.
Austin/BYU shame on them for taking such a cake schedule. Had Collie actually played against more than 1 or 2 defenses maybe he would have more people's respect. Rivals lists him as 4th which is a gift, he may be in the top ten but probably not quite.
My comments are not classless they are simply my opinion. BYU fans quit acting so put out that someone disagrees with you. Just because you think DH is "fair and balanced" I don't. In fact I think he is FAR from it.
Austin will be a mediocre receiver in the NFL . . . maybe. He is strong but with Molasses speed I don't think his strength will compensate. As an example Curtis who is significantly faster than Collie has been good but not great. He has made his mark as a possession guy. COLLIE IS NOT CLOSE to fast enough to be a deep play guy. The DB's in the NFL will eat him up, spit him out:)
Collie may not be a 1st or 2nd round draft choice because he isn't a speed burner but he will stick with an NFL team because he has great stength, size, route running, desire, intensity. Some have knocked his hands, he did drop a few more than expected this year (seen that in the NFL too) but I've also seen one handed catches while hand battling a DB. Not many receivers can do that.
Give him the respect he's due and good luck to Collie in whatever choice he makes.
Dotyman sounds like the kind of cougar who could intelligently discuss football without the gratuitous, uncreative insults that characterize much of what appears in these forums. His point about Collie's drops is indeed an important one.
I, too, watched the BYU-Utah State game and remember thinking that BYU looked pretty vulnerable.
I remember the atmosphere more than the game, however. I watched the game at the home of a work colleague with several other people, including primarily BYU fans but also a Utah State fan. One of the guests was a very unsophisticated (only word I can come up with right now) BYU fan who yelled frequently and even went up and hit the screen a few times. He made our host's wife very uncomfortable. He and the USU fan got into an argument about an onside kick. For some reason my opinion on the matter was viewed as authoritative but I was able to avoid involvement because I hadn't seen the play (bathroom break) and they couldn't agree on what had happened. The argument lasted well after the game.
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