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Dick Harmon: TCU looks like it's worthy of a BCS bid
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We always bring the Van Smack but for the last several years we are a team that does not show for the big games and we get worse as they year wears on . . . or we just meet the REAL contenders.
I am ashamed of BYU we are pathetic, you know for all of our talk of Utah being little brother, I may need to check into being the 2nd born because being Big Brother doesn't seem that cool since 1984.
I can handle losing but we didn't lose we got completely handled. We looked like idiots. Hall is mentally weak. We need to assess the coaches future, this is beyond embarrassing.
We stink.
Good luck TCU!!
Hope you crash the BCS!!!
Go frogs!
Anyone have a purple helmet and jersey we can put on some tackling dummies?
Loved the "rolling thunder" of Harvey Unga. Can he play defense? Go Cougars!
BYU: Where getting WAY ahead of oneself is a perennial occurrence.
I thought you predicted BYU victory over TCU.
The only thng that puzzles me is Harmon's silly comment "Sorry Boise State." TCU edged Boise State last year by one point - one point - after crushing BYU and beating Utah at Rice Eccles.
Boise State crushed Oregon - now soon to be #10 with Miami's loss.
Instead of "Sorry Boise State" Harmon should say "Sorry Mountain West" for only having one strong team. Ironic isn't it? The MWC has only has one strong team - TCU_ and the WAC only has one strong team - Boise State.
Maybe Boise State and TCU should play again. Besides, TCU is the only MWC school that has beaten Boise in its its history.
Until the 13-1 record owned by Boise State is brought into balance, Harmon should say "Sorry MWC."
GO COUGARS!!!!!!!!!!
Talk about nonsense!
This statement is as non-sense as you can get.
Bronco knows .... about coaching, that's why his team was defeated handily twice in the same fashion and he still could not figure out why!!!
Bronco thought last year was a fluke (..."I really had believed from a year ago, and what I thought was that this was a one-time thing," said coach Bronco Mendenhall...), so did he under-estimate TCU again?
What a laugh, Bronco!!!
Looking at the past five years, Utah and TCU have/are clearly the best two programs and the only ones doing anything for the MWC on the national scene.
Should make for a good game in Texas when the Frogs host the Utes, though TCU certainly appears to be the best team this year. But after Utah's two BCS years in the past five, it's good for the conference to show another team and program of a similar caliber.
PS. TDS is the 3rd best team in the MWC. Barily.
The MWC can only hope TCU continues to play well and Boise State stumbles.
Maybe the better SOS that TCU will have by season's end will do the trick.
Hate to keep alternating those BCS dollars with the WAC.
Oh, BYU played yesterday? Really?
I am more than a little concerned that Bronco and BYU keep getting "surprised" by the level of preparation of their opponents. This is two bad losses at home this season, and it is the same story both times.
Step it up, Bronco! Why can't you prepare adequately for big games?
TCU was easily the biggest game of the year, given the "surprise" loss last year, the revenge factor, the BYU tackling dummy, the BCS implications, a home game, etc.
If BYU expects to compete at the highest level of Div. I Football, we need better preparation from our coaches.
We also need better leadership within the team (Max Hall vs. Tim Tebow --> no comparison) - and I am talking about off-the-field leadership, not quarterbacking.
Otherwise, we are doomed to stay in the middle of the MWC pack.
Continually crying about the BCS does not make you a BCS calibar conference. Give me Texas vs Florida in the NC game. Now that's real first class football!
Look, we all know you're super bummed out you pre celebrated the NC and that you still haven't learned that crowning yourselves BCS champs in August just doesn't work but don't assume the whole world, including Ute fans, has somehow conspired against the mighty cougettes. Yes, we Ute fans find kitty fans amusing and sometimes annoying but we also like seeing a what is 'supposed' to be a good game. Bummer you guys didn't show up.
With Max Hall and Harvey Unga being seniors, BYU should have been better this year, not worse.
So they might as well develop there best young QB. Give him some playing time to build on for next year.
TCU (and maybe Utah)
BYU (and maybe Utah)
Everyone else
The next few weeks will reveal where Utah belongs in this scheme: elite with TCU, or second-tier with BYU. For now, it appears the Frogs out-class everyone else in the league. Bringing TCU into the MWC was a great move. Let's hope we can keep them. They would make a very credible member of the Big 12, a league that could slough off some dead wood (Baylor).
BYU and Utah will both be 9-2 and ranked again in time for the rivalry game which will be for 2nd in the MWC and a trip to the Vegas Bowl. I'd always rather have a Utah team go to the BCS, but at least TCU keeps the money in the conference.
Uh, what kind of reality are you living in? You must not understand why the Big-8 (Big-12) annexed the four teams they did from the now defunct SWC: Texas, A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
Knowing the history will help to understand why TCU, along with Rice and SMU were left out (Arkansas went to the SEC). TCU's being good in football will not change that. Baylor offers quite a bit in many other sports---particularly women's sports---over TCU. Plus, Baylor's got a lot of money behind them---more than even the affluent TCU.
So, the Big-12 will not be annexing TCU anytime soon, unless they bulk up ALL of their other sports. SEC is not going to expand which leaves the Sun Belt, WAC and Conference USA as the others in the region---all step below the MWC (including the WAC).
It's much the same reason Boise State will not be offered a spot in the MWC.
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