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BYU football: At home, Cougs are dominant
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But the challenge is to get the team up for each game away from home. Don't count Air Force 'down and out'. Mendenhall's challenge is great to assure that something disasterous doesn't happen at Air Force. This could happen if tooooooo much focus and emotion is put into the Nov 22nd game with Utah when the focus and emotion should be given to the game at hand.
That having been said, then focus and attention should be directed first at the San Diego State game TODAY - forget about whether it is a home game or not.
Focus on Air Force should then begin right after the San Diego game, yes knowing that Utah comes after that. But the whole chase could be blown if the Cougs drop the game to Air Force because they think they have that game 'in the bag'. Air Force is going to be up for BYU, you can count on that, as will San Diego TODAY ! !
Go Cougars ! ! ! (TODAY)! ! !
Bring your "A" game, tune up well and hard so that you are prepared going into SLC. A Cougar win over the Aztecs and then Utah won't wash out the sour taste of the TCU loss, but it will at least bring a co-conferance championship and a higher ranking come BCS time.
The future is in your hands . . .
Burying Aztecs, grounding Air Force and thumping Utah, sounds like a lot of fun in the blue future! Is it possible?
The home OOC opponents the last three years have been Tulsa, Utah State, Arizona (5-7), Eastern Washington, Northern Iowa, and a terrible UCLA team. Gone are the names like Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Texas, aTm, Miami, and good UCLA, Washington, and Arizona State teams that used to come to Provo. Also, notice the addition of DI-AA teams basically each year that BYU never used to play.
So, congrats to the Cougars for sweeping the MWC three years in a row and for beating some very weak OOC opponents.
Make us proud!!!
Make it a very memorable, tearful, Kodak, KSL TV moment!!!
(who knows? with Airforce, Utah coming up, this may be your last win of the season)
SoCalUtahFan
Can someone explain to me why BYU fans think they have the right to dictate how Utah fans celebrate a win?? Far as I can tell, the players very much enjoy celebrating with their fans and the fans enjoy giving high fives to their players. Why do BYU fans think they have a vote in the practice???
I am convinced that the issue BYU fans have with Ute fans storming the field is that The University of Utah allows the practice, BYU does not. Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy.
The kitty fans saw what a trampled cougar looked like at the TCU game. Mow they just don't want to see their poor cougies get trampled twice in the same game!
Your statements about Utah fans storming their field make is sound like BYU fans 'choose' not to storm their field. Typical BYU SPIN. The truth is, if you were of such character you could stand tall and admit it, BYU fans are not 'allowed' to storm the field. Therefore, as in all other things BYU, you want Utah fans to be like you.
You want change at BYU? Change it. But do not suppose that you can dictate policy at the University of Utah.
It is my wish that Bronco continues to coach long enough to beat LaVell's total win record - but if Bronco gets harrased for not achieving a perfect season, then he just might up and quit.
As a BYU alum, I was pleased to hear the players at the fireside here in Dallas, which might have been instrumental in encouraging a young man to become active again and maybe even serve a mission. This is a football team I am proud of. I'll repeat that - this is a football team I am proud of win or lose.
Go Cougars - fans cheer the team. Nothing is gained by booing. And someone very valuable might be lost along the way.
Oh, and if you are reading this, you aren't an Aggie or Ute fan: you are either a BYU or anti-BYU fan. Well, maybe an Aztec. . .
-Directly from BYU's football site after the TCU game.
You can make fun of us for "storming the field," but we can easily make fun of your "program!"
Thumping the SDSU team wowie, doesn't that make for grand football. BYU fans has an exaggerated opinion of their team. The team on the other hand just got fitted for new smaller support equipment.
We recognize the difference between a truly big game and another victory in the conference.
We respect our opponents and their fans, especially great players like Brian Johnson, Louie Sakoda, and Paul Kruger.
If the Cougars beat the Aztecs by 30 today, they should walk off the field with a smile beause they played to expectations.
Now, if they beat Utah in two weeks, they should tear down those goal posts themselves.
GO COUGARS!
The topic of discussion here is whether it is appropriate for the home team fans to storm their own field. For the record, I agree with the arguments posted above. BYU fans would storm the field every home game if they were allowed to do it.
Like other's, I do not see where BYU fans have a vote in policies and practices at the University of Utah. The fans enjoy it and the players enjoy it...GO UTES!!!!!!
Who has won the MWC each of the past two seasons? Who has won the Las Vegas Bowl each of the past two years? And who has beaten the "Big Brother Utes" each of the past two years?
Your comments make it sound like the "zoobie kitties" have never even come close to beaten the "Big Brother Utes" much less do it two straight years.
Please Ute fans, keep up that overconfidence.
I have seen plenty of teams lose games because their placekicker sucks or missed, doesn't change the outcome because scoreboard is all that matters.
Also if you can't stand some trashtalking among rivals, then find a new hobby. I hear scrapbooking is real popular.
BYU 31 Utah 9
While I believe that Utah has the better team this year and will likely beat BYU, it's hilarious that Ute fans act like BYU is actually on par with SDSU. BYU's one loss is to TCU. Offensively, Utah did not do much better against TCU than BYU did. On Utah's home field they scored two field goals and a touchdown. At TCU, BYU scored one touchdown. If Utah had played at TCU, how would that game have ended? The odds are Utah would not have scored 13 points.
If/when Utah beats BYU on Nov 22, they will obviously have bragging rights over BYU. But until then, BYU has lost only one conference game in the last three seasons.
And this story is still about BYU.
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