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BYU football: Great expectations, mediocre results

Great job at 10-3, Utah went 12-0. Nice job getting to the Las Vegas Bowl, Utah is going to go to the Sugar Bowl.

I like Jorgensen's comment about making some defensive changes, I hope the coaches can figure out a better way to defend the spread and shut down the mobile qbs.

I think Collie has proven he can compete in the NFL and wouldnt blame him if he made the jump. I dont think anyone else is ready, Pitta wasnt the same after the knee injury.

Good luck in 09 Cougars!

Since the Y recruits successfully nationally against the Oklahomas, Texas, Floridas and Alabamas of the BCS world, the goal at the Y is NC and BCS bowls therefore a 10-3 season ending with a loss to a mediocre UA is an unsuccessful season

Pride always commeth before the fall! Quest for Perfection...only when you have unobtainable goals does a good season become bitter disappointment.

When you put yourself on a pedestal and thump your chest and say your organization has a higher mission than all the rest, you are in a position to fall all over yourself. It is also true that those who you proudly thought you were superior to in comparison are not there to pick you up and help you regain your lost sense of pride. When BYU lost to TCU and Utah, they were heckled and taunted. Next year, it would be in BYU's best interests to have a more humble attitude. ,

Part of the problem is that the MC is not that good. There are only three good teams in the conference--TCU, Utah, and BYU. Arizona hasn't qualified for a bowl game for ten years and just barely had a winning season, but they defeated BYU handily. They came in as the fifth place finisher in the PAC-10 conference, but they finished off BYU. All the talk about being cheated by the BCS is just talk. BYU hasn't demonstrated that they belong in a BCS bowl.

Jorgenson noted that they struggled against fast teams that employed the spread offense. He has some ideas on how to deal with it but is waiting to discuss with the coach.

Are you kidding me?

Those ideas are about two months late.

BYU is a good team. There coaches were simply out coached over and over again. I dare say that even teams like Utah State out-coached BYU. BYU was just to deep and strong but overall, Utah State solved the problems of how to score on BYU, and how to stop our vaunted offense.

Our coaches need to get their noses in the mud and get serious about this. And on recruiting they need to get serious about speed on defense.

Always next year. Always, next year.

This Cougar fan is 100% behind Bronco and the players. A bowl-game loss is always disappointing but a 10-3 season is by no means a mediocre result. This program is unique and inspirational and a joy to watch unfold!

Mediocre is right. Go back to your little hole cougar-ettes.

The good news here is that BYU's underclassmen (including Collie) are coming back for next year, while Utah's are trying to leave the program early. That is a great indication that BYU, after a 10-3 season, will improve and Utah will go down (without the offensive and defensive coordinators who ran the show for the U). Not to mention that BYU will get to play the Utes, TCU, Air Force, and Colorado State at home next year. I'd say the die is cast for another MWC championship in '09.

The problem with BYU football is scheduling. Could they play Northern Iowa every Saturday?

Max Hall doesn't seem to be learning his position. He continues to sit in the pocket with cement shoes and sniper vision for too long. He needs to move that helmet. Scan the field and the pocket and learn how to be evasive. Scrambles upfield with those noodle arms freak out every BYU fan. Seriously, when have we seen him throw the ball away? He just isn't playing wisely and it is killing our chances.

2009 Cougars will rock!

Too bad for the Cougs, but that is what happens when you fail to adapt. In the last game, against a team who relied on speed rather than size for defence, they tried an offense that relied on speed itself. They had the horsepower, a better plan would have been to play smash mouth football and run over the top of them. Rise and shout the Cougars are out.....cold.

I am disappointed with this year, but not quite for the reasons everyone assumes. I could live with 10-3 if I felt the team had played up to their potential in the losses. They struggled in some of their wins. (Yes a win is a win, but in some of the games the team looked sloppy and unfocused--as they did in their losses).

I don't mean to say they should have won 69-0 all the time, but they certainly could have executed better in many of the games (some of the wins and losses). For me that was disappointing. If they play well and lose, so be it! (Of course, they probably won't lose, but that's not the issue).

BYU's record against teams ranked in AP's top 25 over the past five years is one win and TEN losses. Combine that with their all time Bowl record of .333 and you can correctly conclude that just as they did this year BYU does poorly against good teams. BYU is OVERRATED.

Enter commentCouldn't have said it any better than this article stated.

I'm beginning to feel like a Cubs fan . . . next year!

Short practices during the season?
6 of 14 practices for the bowl?
football #5 on the priority list.
Is anyone really surprised?

Get some speed in the backfield and quit trying to use Unga like he's got some quickness, 'cause he ain't got it. BYU needs to get a quick RB if they want to run the steretch every other down. If you want Harvey to be good, run power plays and lead draws where he can run downhill, teach him to quit trying to out juke everyone and just put your head down and run! Quit trying to run the outside strecth play, he aint fast enough to get outside and then aint quick enough to cut up the field. The speed of a smaller quicker RB would be a nice change up. That person is not on BYU's roster. Also, don't ever go into a game against a team that is faster than you and think you are going to run vertical routes and beat a faster team's secondary like you did at TCU. Bronco recently said the team thought they were better than they really were. I think you still think you are better than you really are with the mismanagment of talent on offense.