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Dick Harmon: Home fields will decide close games
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TCU wins 27-13. Sorry cougs, speed kills.
I don't think anyone can explain what happened when Bowden and Co. came to town. If the Cougs blow it today, we'll have the answer.
Revenge would be sweet. Can't wait for kickoff.
Go Cougs!!
"Well, we just didn't execute because I didn't prepare the team."
"BYU fans are still uneducated about football."
----------- In other news.....----------
BYU Football is now accepting applications for a new head coach who prepares the team and doesn't call his own fans uneducated.
The grass will root down and in the end LES will have natural "green" grass and not an extruded chemical product look-a-like.
I know there are many who would think the feet of the BYU players will not touch the same grass as the feet of the TCU players, but gravity is equal to both.
Let me break it down for those who still don't understand: "BOTH TEAMS PLAY ON THE SAME PATCH OF GRASS, WHETHER IT IS WET, DRY, CUT LONG, CUT SHORT, OR EVEN LOOSE!"
I haven't watched AF play but I hope to be home from soccer games to watch the end. If the Utes lay and egg, AF is good enough to knock them off. Should be a good game as well. If it is a blow-out, gotta be the Utes on top.
Speed hurts, speed scars, speed wounds, and marks. Speed kills....oooooooh speed hurts.
Now on to an arbitrary prediction of the score:
TCU 35 BYU 3. There is is, I said it. It takes a real man to throw out a prediction like that on an anonymous message board.
Max Hall and big games are like oil and water. Max isn't good under pressure and TCU's Hughes will provide that pressure. I have to factor out the OU game. OU isn't a good team and so "that" big game doesn't count. I do have to factor in the FSU game. A big game at home and still the cougs get beat - soundly. The FSU game is a big factor in my analysis, especially since FSU isn't good! Lastly, Dalton is a scrambler and I need to factor that in AND factor that BYU isn't good against a "scrambler."
I need to send this analysis for Mr. Lee Corso of ESPN. I'm confident that Mr. Corso will put on the horned frog's mascot head. I've got to factor out all the emotion on this one and factor in reality. Objectively, the team down south loses this one. Final factored analysis: TCU walks away with a "W." Sorry cougs.
Harmon, you did a good job of analyzing all the MWC games today. The matchup with BYU hosting TCU will be anxiously awaited by more fans in the state than any other. I am hopeful the BYU team comes with their A game and TCU doesn't.
I am hopeful also that Utah can bring their best game to the field. Airforce has been a historically surpise team and risen to the occasion and knocked off some of the better teams over the years.
Go Cougars, Go Utes
AFA 27 Utah 10
As usual, I enjoyed this article, as I do most of your articles.
Your point about SDS coming up with several trick
plays, never before seen on tape, which they saved just to use against BYU, illustrates just what I have been screaming about all of last year and all of this year.
We can not continue to keep treating every team we play as a generic team, making no changes in our own game plans, but doing everything the same, while just trying to execute it better. It doesn't even work in today's High School Football, so how can we expect it to work in today's 1A College football?
Yes, we won last week by 10 points which had a point spread of 17 1/2 points, and by comparing the rankings, the spread should have been by much more if the gamblers indeed thought we were as good as the rankings show.
#22 Florida State took time to study our films, come up with plays that were designed to play only against #7 BYU and the results killed our Cougars.
Three words that I have grown to hate are, "JUST EXECUTE BETTER".
Anyway, I see this playing out to tcu's advantage again because the speed is too much for byu. Hall will be a lost little boy again not seeing who's open or not, and your defense won't know what hit them when they see the backs running past them all day.
TCU - 24
BYU - 13
Post Game Report | 5:05 a.m. Oct. 24, 2009
Here is the Post Game Report from Bronco:
"Well, we just didn't execute because I didn't prepare the team."
"BYU fans are still uneducated about football."
I went into a second grade classroom during reading time. The room was quiet. Kids were looking out the window, looking at each other, and their eyes were meandering around the room. Why aren't you reading I asked? We don't know how, they replied. The teacher said, "In this quiet reading environment, if they try hard enough, they will learn". No phonics were taught, no context clues, no syllabication lessons, no stimulation to read. My question to the students showed that I was uneducated when it comes to teaching reading. I thought there had to be a game plan.
BYU 17 TCU 14
BYU Defense VS. TCU Punt Returner and Running game.
TCU 17 BYU 14
Probable outcome depends on if we are treating TCU as a generic team, making no changes in our game plan and planning to only execute better, (A BYU loss),
or if we studied the TCU films, and change our game plan to stop the TCU running game, and to execute a new supprise offense plan never before shown on tape. ( A BYU win)
Go Cougars!
We have established that once again, Harmon is picking the home teams to win.
We have established that once again, Ute trolls are predicting a resounding BYU defeat, while BYU fans generally couldn't care less how the Utes do.
Sounds to me like business as usual. All is well in zion. Go cougs.
Pick the game both ways and you're never wrong.
A few examples #1 Florida and Urban Meyers. They are on National TV enough and we watched him here in Utah to know his plays were all very similar, routes similar, runs similar. He does install a variation of a play, which has been practiced all spring and fall, for a particular SITUATION, but not team. #2 Alabama---same offense and defense the Utes played and beat two years ago. Alabama was ranked then, is ranked now. (and the Utes?) I am connected to Provo High. Last night Timpview CRUSHED my Bulldogs. It was the same Timpview counter run, counter fold, pull one guard, its a pass to the flat, pull guard and tackle and its a counter run; that I have seen for years!!!! AND they have, what, 7-8 state championships???
Talk to Van Orden, who should be a coach at BYU, Execution is the difference between winning and losing. That and about 4-5 plays per game that are executed perfectly by the winning team!
One thing for sure though. BYU should be motivated this time 'round.
1. We are saving our best plays for TCU.
2. Our team is young
3. We aren't as fast
I would rather watch TCU beat BYU then to ever put myself in the pathetic group of a Ute Fan!!!
YBU loves all that free money it receives from others who make it to ,( and win), in the BCS games.
Can't wait for the excuses after the game with Jan Jorgensen complaining of the holding calls and Bronky.. " we just didn't execute well within our game plan".
Too bad the Cougars are getting embarrassed for the second time this season on their home field.
They fooled us again. They made us believe in the first 2 games that they had a defense. They made us think that maybe Florida St. was an aberration. Nope. Their is no such thing as "defense" in Provo.
But Harmon is spot on about BYU: down 14 in the 2nd Quarter.
This is the FSU game all over again. Face is it Zoob nation your the 3rd best team in the league.
Utah and TCU find ways to win games with their defenses. BYU has no defense.
Those boys at OU must be wondering how they could be so dumb to lose to BYU!!
TCU is embarrassing you just like...
FSU
Arizona '08
Utah '08
TCU '08
The top 3 deference's in the MWC:
1. TCU
2. Utah
3. Air Force
becomes TCU's homefield tonight.
On 11/28, LES will be Utah's homefield.
Good article, Dick!
SoCalUtahFan
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TCU has not played on an abomination of a field like the wanna-be sod at LES.
BYU has had 3 home games to learn that how to run and how to cut on the ever-shifting sod.
Prediction, in a game determined by close plays, TCU loses out due in large part to not being used to playing on moving sod.