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BYU football: Promising season ends in bitter disappointment
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This is a team who dared to talk about perfection, BCS and Heisman at the beginning of the year.
They ended up worse than a 7-5 Arizona who is ranked 41st in Sagarin's football rating.
So long, BYU. See you next year as a 4th place team in MWC --behind Utah, TCU and AFA
BYU needs to get LaVell out of the stands and get him back on the sideline.
BYU football was fun and entertaining this year. It is ok to dream and plan for great things. It is also ok to fall short. I say keep dreaming and planning big. Go Cougs!
Utah is not nearly as good as its arrogant fans think.
So let's start talking about the "moral" victory coming up - what, anythng less than a 21 point loss???
Hey, your game has a ton more national significance than BYU's did, so do us all proud, ok?
Oh I forgot. Co State beat Fresno.
1)Defense--unable to put any type of consistent pressure on the QB who merely picked apart the weak secondary. Note to coaches: when you have guys who can't cover, you've got to pressure the QB.
2)Offensive coordinator--Anae shows about as much imagination as a former offensive lineman. You've got a stud at running back and you simply have Hall slinging the ball over and over again. How dumb is that? When the other team doesn't respect the run, it's no wonder that Hall gets pressured and panics. Additionally, against an extremely fast defense how many reverses to Reed did BYU run to keep the defense honest? Zero is the number that comes to mind.
Oh, and yes I could do a better job at play calling, it just so happens that my present employment suits me just fine thank you.
Well, that explains this mess.
And for you BYU and Utah fans that are complaining that BYU can't compete because of a honor code, need to wake up!!! BYU dominated the WAC and are doing the same in the MWC. We will never be able to compete with the larger conferences and it's because Utah as a state has nothing to offer these kids that want to live the big city/party life while at college.
Hats off to Mendenhall for running a clean/successful program!!
However, I have noticed that this board has become a haven for the classless, arrogant Utes who are pretty much virgins to winning, and don't understand sometimes you win, sometimes you lose (reference the past three years).
It will be interesting how you respond to your loss against Alabama, which so many of you seem to think has already happened.
As a BYU fan, I am indeed thankful that there is more to our season than how Utah performs. I notice how pompous Utah fans are regarding BYU's three losses, one to Utah, and the other two to teams that did not include one UTAH PLAYER.
I guess it helps your long-term low self-esteem pointing out the two losses that did not include the Utah team in anyway.
re:" BYU 2009 Football Motto | 4:34 p.m. Dec. 21, 2008
BYU 2009 Football Motto: Wait until 2010"
What is Utah's gonna be? We got smashed by 'Bama, wait until 2013?
Until 2013, do something positive for your-OWN SELF ESTEEM...
Didn't help that they were also in red.
Is that Utah's best gauge of who the Utes are as a team? How BYU does??? Doesn't it really make you Utah fans feel sort of pathetic??? You have no collective idea who U are?
re:What an embarassment!!! | 4:03 p.m.
"So long, BYU. See you next year as a 4th place team in MWC --behind Utah, TCU and AFA."
I will have to defer to Utah Fans insight on this, If anyone knows mediocrity, it has been Utah through the past four years (40, if you want to get historical).
In the meantime, I believe BYU will bounce back after this year.
It will be interesting how Utah, a true BCS type team will Dominate Bama in a true BCS Bowl.I hope that Mr./Ms. "What an embarassment!!!" will be around with his/her thoughts after the Sugar Bowl. Please, promise that you will be our guest again with your thoughtful insight after the game.
Do they even know?
Just wondering???
Lets count them all up shall we.
Washington 1
TCU 2
New Mexico 3
UNLV 4
Colo St 5
Utah 6
Arizona 7
While you can claim Utah could have lost 3, you should have lost 7 and not even been able to get to a bowl - which would have been a good thing. UNLV would have beat Zona.
I predict the Y winning 42-10 over the weak UA team from the Weak/PAC 10 conference "
You poor poor boy....
MITCH PAYNE
It's just a game. Not worth all the hate that came with the season this year.
Continuing to say "we beat ourselves" is disrespect to the team that just wiped the field with you.
"Hello my Name is BYU and I am a loser"
#1. Fix the slow and confused secondary. They haven't covered anyone for half a season. They have made average QB's look good and good QB's look like Heisman candidates.
#2. Tell Max that if a guy is double covered, trying to fit a football in a window the size of a pea isn't really a good idea.
#3. "Excecuting better in what we do." Is a poor excuse for "We have no idea how to adjust our game plan and will therefore continue doing what we have been doing."
1) Quest for Patience --ie we're not there yet.
2) Wait until 2010 --from BYU 2009 Football Motto
3) Quest for Redemption
4) Quest for Revenge
Go Cougars!
Its always been BYU since 1985.
Work on your self esteem steve.
U'r saying that the U is making a solid run for the CBI again.
Yep, Utah has such a solid basketball program.
SBU and ISU...???
...and 1944 UTAH basketball was on the way home from losing in the NIT. It was a WWII year. Every other basketball player was in Europe serving their country and trying to keep Hitler from taking over Europe. Jimmy Stewart was flying hostile missions. Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes from Gone with the Wind) was shot down and killed.
We're proud of the Ute Players who stayed home from the war to play Basketball, but keep it in perspective.
You don't get it do you - BYU education does it again. The guy was mocking 1984 - duh!!!!!!
Now on to basketball where we will sweep AGAIN.
No matter what happens on January 2nd, the Utes will not be anywhere near as sad as the cougars are right now. And heck, they still have a chance to win. Your season is over. Quit trying to make up for it by imagining ours ruined as well. At this point, our season is unruinable. You can thank Max Hall for that.
Also, please stop saying that you never lost a game to a better team, but that you beat yourselves three times this year. It is disrespectful and completely classless. Just because your coaches and player do it doesn't make it right.
Really?? Can you show me the BCS berths to prove it?
Until then.....keep it on lock down
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