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BYU football: Promising season ends in bitter disappointment
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you have an appointment at the slaughterhouse."
Still talking smack after a 7-5 team crushes your Quest for Perfection season? Lets face it this UofA team was better then the 84 6-5 MI team.
Max drops back eying Collie into the end zone� with UofA blitzing from both sides� but BYU easily picking it up�
I remember this so vividly, I was sitting in the end zone 48th row up� wearing my Crimson Red t-shirt busy eating my nachos when�
Max hit me right in the chest.
I caught the ball but I had to drop my nachos. Nevertheless, Max owes me $7.24. If he doesn�t pay up then the UofU has promised me that they will take the $7.24 out of BYUs Sugar Bowl cut.
Sugar is so SWEEEEEETTTTT!
GO UTES!!!
I wish you would won the game. I bet a of Utes cheered for you to win.
Yes of course against good defenses (TCU, Utah, UofA) you stopped yourselves but against bad teams you were great.
BYU what an embarrassment for the MWC. We should swap BSU for BYU.
BCS RUNNING SCOREBOARD
UTAH -2
byu -NEVER
Way to have your team represent our conference so well. Hopefully the Utes don't lay an egg in the Sugar Bowl.
He said they are better than the teams that beat them but the just beat themselves. When a team believes they lose games and are still better than the winner they can't improve. Or more precise they refuse to improve.
The simple fact is THE BEST TEAM WINS EVERY GAME. To win have to be the best, not just assume you're the best.
BYU is and will be a sub-par team. They can not compete with the teams that have a winning record. Lucky they had AZ and not Boise State. The score would have been a lot worse.
Look at the scoreboards. The Utes beat you, the Horned Frogs beat you and the Cats beat you. If not for a big play at the end, Arizona beats Oregon State, so the argument that Utah could easily beat the Cats is flawed.
Here's another scoreboard that counts: 12 wins, 9 losses, 1 tie against BYU. Cats > Cougs.
get ready to loose at lv stadium against UNLV next year. Every team will have your number next year.. All we need to do is watch game film of your last 2 games.
Go REBS!
Oh and the Utah fans are killing me with all the sick burns!
Quote "For the safety of the fans, we need to keep the tempers of team in check"
After Utah worked them and then Arizona..If he can really say BYU was better the kid needs to get back to reality before it's too late.
HOW MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS DO YOU HAVE?
Get some real competition in the non league schedule and your team will rise to occasion. If not, prepare for more embarrassing losses.
I remember last year all cougs fans were thankful they didnt hire coach wit. I bet you wish you had him now, a coach that knows how to make adjustments to beat a poor pac 10 team. Bronco is to stubborn and set in his ways to make the adjustements nescasary to win. I mean blitz a little put some pressure on their qb.
On the bright side Coug fans atleast The Great Gazoo with his enormous noggan didn't throw 5 interceptions again.
The Utes are looking forward to our meeting in LES next year!
Precedence was set w/ Nebraska firing the legendary Tom Osborne. So, Anything is possible.
Sept. 1 Granite High
Sept. 7 East High
Sept. 14 Provo High
Sept. 21 Murray High.....
Defense play decent for what they have to work with. If only offense didn't give defense a short field to defend?!
The Arizona game was beatable. Too bad BYU didn't get it done. Better luck next year!
BUT - if you really look back over history, BYU rarely does well against really quality opponents. Sure they tend to beat the teams they are supposed to beat but rarely do they beat the teams that are considered as good or better than them. 1-20 against top 25 really says it all folks. We can beat poor to average bcs teams (like UCLA and Washington this season) but when we go up against someone in the top half of that conference - well, we all saw it last night.
And here is the tough part - with our recruiting strategy of 98% mission-bound eagle scouts, we will continue to have great kids but will not likely improve on that record against top-25 opponents. We are who we are and should be proud of what we do accomplish. But BYU's program simply is not built to be a bcs caliber program. Cograts Cougs on a 10-3 season. I hope the Utes and Frogs represent well!
GO UTES!!!
As a UTE fan I thought that was just a terrible game and while I don't blame the refs for the loss I thought they were very unprofessional at their jobs, AZ played poorly but BYU was worse. Collie is a great player and he did play well, the pro scouts should snapped this boy right up. Hall will turn pro so that he doesn't have to face another humiliating game, he has talent but he is so arrogant he will become the next Ryan Leaf when he is drafted by D. Lions
(PS. Go Beavers)
That isn't Bronco's fault, but he has to live with it. He is a quality guy and given the severe restrictions BYU faces when it comes to recruiting quality athletes, Bronco has done an admirable job.
I personally would like to see the football program go away. However, that isn't going to happen. So the only option available is to learn to accept mediocrity, particularly on a national level, because BYU will never be able to compete with the type of athletes it is able to recruit.
BYU is getting to the point now that they cannot even get the few quality LDS players out there to come to BYU.
Because of BYU's situation, the playing field will never be level (BYU's choice) so they will NEVER compete with the big boys.
The last 30 years or more have been fun, but don't expect them to continue.
BYU fans, accept it or find a new team to cheer for - as long as it isn't the Utes!
BYU will probably not ever, not ever; return to the dominance it once held over the MWC/WAC. BYU, like Notre Dame and AFA are ignoring the realities of today�s sport, in order to maintain their high minded and idealistic version of college athletics. However, talent and athleticism are the names of the game certainly in football and basketball. Great coaching can no longer be counted on, particularly for non-BSC conference teams.
Utah and TCU�s advantage is they are not constrained by BYU�s or AFA�s recruiting and campus limitations. BYU and AFA can be appreciated for developing strong leaders, but not necessarily for winning championships.
This may have been BYU�s watershed year. BYU is a team made up of hard-working, intelligent, coachable players � those that go on to greatness in life; however this BYU�s old-school thinking will not return BYU to dominance or champions.
BYU�s loss last night is more of what their fans can expect of their football future, not the exception. � Unfortunately.
Repeat after me;
"There is always 1984", "There is always 1984", "There is always 1984".
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