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BYU football: Promising season ends in bitter disappointment
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I am so sick of BYU embarrassing us every YEAR!
And by the way, calling Utes "Yewts" is disrespectful to the Ute tribe, the tribe to which our state was named after. But I forgot, BYU fans don't get anything. Let's insult a whole Native American group because we lost another game. Typical disrespectful BYU fan. Way to represent BYU.
At least they had the 2nd best MWC team play Boise, BYU would have lost bad.
How about that though, rough night for cats in Vegas.
3 losses, that has to hurt. Come on, you guys had a "quest" and you didn't even do as good as last year!
Hall lost this game... again, just as he did the Utah game!
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the QB position, Max!
Now, about coaching. Bronco's "spiritual" priority for this team shows. He is more concerned with giving warm fuzzy firesides than he is in putting a well-prepared FOOTBALL team on the field! I got news for you, Bronco: BYU pays religion teachers to teach the boys religion! You are paid to teach FOOTBALL! Quit wasting your time trying to do someone else's job! Do YOUR job! FOOTBALL is your job, NOT religious education! We don't want a bunch of seminary teachers on the field. We want FOOTBALL PLAYERS!
So tired of the nasty comments from both schools toward each other. Deseret News needs to require people to register for their postings so that those who post have to "OWN" their comments.
Go Cougars!
I think that reality is setting in for BYU, with such strict standards on campus, it's just too difficult to compete on the recruiting stage with other schools. The lack of speed and athletes on both sides of the ball have been glaring in their three losses.
I think that Bronco has done an admirable job with the challenges he has, but I do feel that he needs to figure out a way to get his kids more fired up to play and quit making so many costly turnovers and penalties.
Cougars I love ya, but last night was a big dose of reality for many fans like myself. good luck to the Utes, the MWC needs better representation than the Cougars this year.
Max Hall showed up again, NOT! He never showed up for a big game all year.
Did Jorgenson play? Just wondering, I never heard his name. Is'nt he the conference all time sack leader?
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I was at the game and I could see why none of the D-line was heard from much. They rushed 3 against a good, big O-line the entire game. The front 3 couldn't generate much pressure, but when you are playing 3 against 5 or 6, generating pressure is out of the equation. Reminds me of the U-BYU game where Utah only rushed 3-4 on most plays. They did not generate as much pressure as usual. Difference was Utah had to DB's to play prolonged seconds in coverage. AZ's QB shred the secondary even with guys in coverage. If that's happening bring 6-7 guys and make the QB look down at the pressure and away from the coverage every now and then.
Go Utes!
Perhaps Mendenhall and Hall can apply.
To any Utah fan I made fun of for having the kicker be the best player on the team. I'm sorry, BYU could have used The King
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To understand how much we revere King Louie, you need to have watched(and agonized over) how many games we lost on field goal and XPoint kicks in the McBride era...Think Kaneshiro(and for more than just doinking the 37 yarder against BYU in 1998) He lost at least 5 games in 2 years that I can recall.
You too will revere your next clutch kicker because of your memory of this game alone.
I didn't know BYU was playing for a championship...
Is a fourth-rate Bowl game now considered a championship?
If BYU had won would they somehow win the MWC Championship???
I am a BYU fan, but...sorry Bronco, you were not playing for any championship whatsoever. Lets cool it with the cliches and axioms.
"So tired of the nasty comments from both schools toward each other. Deseret News needs to require people to register for their postings so that those who post have to "OWN" their comments. "
Hey POT its funny how you posted this comment as anonymous. Why didnt you add your name and email to the post if it bothers you so bad.
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game
(sound familiar?)
They thought, "If only Casey, mighty Casey, could but get a whack,
We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the Bat."
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Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing and little children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out."
(sound familiar?)
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Mudville, Utah zip 84601.
Questions - Fewer practices? After more than a month off since last game? After a resounding beating at the hands of the Utes? No wonder Max and Austin have to practice at night!
Sounds like Gary Crowton flying the overconfident Cougars to Reno the MORNING of the game!
Please Boise, join the MWC! Give me well-coached over-achievers any day over the underachievers in Mudville.
The whole group...coaches, players, even the fans...did not have any intensity or emotion...especially compared to UA.
I'vee seen alot of talk about the lack of speed, the recruiting handicaps, play calling etc...but the big problem I saw was a lack of emotion. They didn't show much fight, and emotion and fight matter in football. Even under sized, under talented, players can play with a fire and accomplish more than their physical stature or skills suggest they can. I cannot recall the last time I saw BYU "overacheive" in a game since they beat Miami in 1989. Can anyone else recall another game where they were underdogs and they came away with a victory?
Go Utes!!
Benedict: "You think this is funny?"
Danny: "Well Terry, it sure as $*#& aint sad."
Rough day for cougars...it sure aint sad.
But I'm also man enough to say that BYU was disappointing and embarassing in their losses and especially in their bowl game. They better man up and take responsibility for the let down so that next year is better.
For us Ute fans, the BYU loss is not good. If the MWC is trying to establish that they are the best of the non-BCS conferences they need to beat up on teams like Arizona---good, but beatable BCS teams.
Now, it is up to Utah who will be a big underdog and TCU who must win to silence BSU fans who think the WAC can hang with the MWC.
Tough loss.
And the play of the game? The INT in the endzone. A BYU score would have cut it to three with tons of time left. Instead, Zona got it back marched down the field, milked the clock and scored to go up by 17....
Way to go, keep giving the MWC the mid-major title.
And for the BSU fans, speak all you want about the MWC, but the big problem you have is having a school that can support other sports. Maybe someday the MWC, but never the Pac-10. Really, you are a Big Sky team with a good football program. 30K stadium doesn't cut it either.
Naturally, we would have liked to have seen you win every game, score on every play, shut out every opponent, etc., but realize that in the realm of Div. 1 football, that is unrealistic. That being said, you were successful in most of what you attempted on the field this year even when it did not result it a win.
We like the fact that you have brought BYU football back to it's winning ways while maintaining a clean program that we are all proud of.
We like football a great deal, but realize that in the grand scheme of things, there are far more important things to be concerned with.
We like the fact that the football program does more than play football, but reaches out to help others in so many ways, including spiritually, while the players are given more opportunities to lead and develop.
Thank you for the memories, both the good and the not-so-good. We're proud of all of you!
And there is still TCU, Air Force and Utah on the schedule.
I think BYU is going to be lucky to pull out an 8-4 season.
I am so glad even the clown announcers are aware that Collie considers himself a great football player."
Hey, Anonymous,I know that types like you who ignore these little things called "facts" and "reality" find it hard to believe, but a Cougar receier named Austin Collie LEADS THE NATION for receiving yards with 1,538. And, bub, that's 225 yards more than the 2nd place receiver. 225 yards. More.
Which means that pretty much everybody but you knows Austin Collie IS a great player.
You've earned it so here's your sign.
You're welcome....
Quote "Well, you take out all the bad plays and myself, then the score was really 6-0 - our two field goals won the game". "Just like the Utah game that we won, we had a great 12-1 year -oh and yeah give me a minute, I think we won the TCU game too".
You Zoobies made me drink after seeing how bad you embarrassed the MWC. But I bet I could hold on to the ball better than Hall.
Yewts. Classless, just about every last one of you.
The few of you who actually DO have class are truly a dimanond in the midst of raw coal.
GO COOOOOUGARS!
'Nuff said.
Can someone provide some information? Thanks.
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Sounds like a Yewt. by the way, Yewtie, after losing to Alabama you WILL NOT be undefeated. Understand????