GameForAnyFuss

Sorry, no…I have no desire to play BYU-Provo Campus in any sport, ever again. It has nothing to do with conference affiliation. It has everything to do with the way your players, coaches, and fans represent the church. You seem like a nice person, but I feel like for whatever reason your school attracts an inordinately high percentage of total…[Read more]

Let me put it this way:
1. When the non-SEC power conferences decided to form an alliance, the Big 12 wasn’t invited to be a part of it.
2. When the non-SEC power conferences had a chance to poach any remaining Big 12 member they wanted, they all declined.

It is now the P4.

Until 2025.

The new hierarchy in football is now as follows:

SEC

Alliance (PAC12, ACC, Big 10)

Big 12, ACC, MWC, WAC

Everyone else

You could say the same thing about every matchup since they went independent. They’ve never had anything to lose.

This potentially works in Utah’s favor. Teams with nothing to lose play undisciplined. They commit penalties. They commit turnovers. Utah just has to be prepared for the unexpected. But given Whit’s track record, I have no reason to…[Read more]

As a person of the LDS persuasion, I hate it that these videos exist. Because every time I try to tell someone from out of state that “Mormons are pretty much just normal people”, I feel guilty because I know these videos exist and they prove that I’m lying.

That whole stadium is the visitor’s section.

I get the feeling that BYU-Provo Campus players and fans got a dose of reality last night. I think most of them realize they’re not all their coaches and the media hyped them up to be. I think if Utah scores on their first couple of possessions, they will get demoralized pretty quickly.

^This. Never underestimate the advantage of having played an extra game early in the season. UCLA made huge improvements between game 1 and game 2, like most teams do. They looked quite pedestrian against Hawaii.

The problem with baseball is the pace. It’s 12 seconds of action crammed into 4 hours of coverage. It’s a dying pastime among the young because it doesn’t satisfy our need for constant entertainment.

I understand that baseball is highly strategic, and that’s somewhat compelling as a participant, but a pure strategy game is not necessarily fun to…[Read more]

It’s a good short-term solution for BYU-Provo Campus, but that conference will cease to exist in 2025 when the remnants get pulled into the Big 10 and PAC12. The Big XII is the new Big East. Provo Campus will be independent again within a few years.

At this point, the BYU-Provo Campus game is just another step in the process of building towards conference play. They’re just a G5 team that’s better than Weber but worse than what we see in the PAC12.

A couple thoughts to add to your (very good) thoughts:

– Weber rushed 6 or 7 all night long. The sheer number of bodies was bound to give our patchwork OL some trouble. Of course, the downside of that strategy is that a poised QB like Brewer can just sidestep the pressure and then pick apart the coverage downfield, which is exactly what he did.…[Read more]

“Sellout” does not equal “attendance out”. With a weeknight kick at 5:30, it will be a late-arriving crowd.

I expect they will be fundamentally sound and play clean (good ball security, low penalties) because that’s what good teams at every level do, and they are a good FCS team. But they won’t be able to match up man-for-man against Utah’s physicality, strength, and athleticism.

In other words, they’ll remind you of Utah, but they just won’t do it as…[Read more]

I don’t see the need to apologize, but if you felt like you should…well, it takes a lot of humility and personal strength to say it. Good on ya.

Maybe peoples’ technological challenges extend to proper use of the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons?

BTW, I will gladly take tickets off anyone’s hands if they don’t want to mess around with the digital ticketing system.

Yeah, but then every time he looks like he’s going to get popped, he puts his foot in the ground and makes a filthy cut, the defender grabs an armful of air, and Covey picks up another 20 yards until he’s shoestring tackled on the sideline. That stops me from clinching.