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Yassmin just got waived. To make way for … Fotheringham.

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I have a sabbatical for a month, so my wife and I are going up to Spokane/Palouse/Coeur d’Alene/Hiawatha Trail for a short week while kids are in camp, going to a family adoption heritage camp, then later going to Cancun for an inlaw family reunion (not looking forward to the temps in late June). Daughter is going to a 3-wk course in Utah then on a cruise with her grandparents and cousin as a graduation gift and boys have summer jobs, so should be relatively chill.

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Why do people think the WVU game will be at night Week 5? There is BYU @ CU (late, late game?), Baylor @ Ok St. and a few other games that might be the late game.

Week 7 ASU @ Utah might be night. There is KU @ TT, TCU @ KSU, but that seems like a good one to put at night.

Now, Utah @ BYU Week 8 certainly is a possible night game, but hoping it’s afternoon. TT @ ASU might be a good game that day as well.

Later in the season there is more flex. So it depends how the conference is playing out.

@UCLA – W
Cal Poly – W
Wyoming – W
TT – last second loss
@WVU – going with a W
ASU – tougher game but last minute win
@BYU – 70-7. No 3-peat for them. Souls are crushed.
CU – W
Cinci – W
@Baylor – L
KSU/@KU – 1W/1L

9-3. A few things go our way, we are 11-1 and in CCG and potentially CFP. A few injuries to key positions, we are 7-5. All games winnable. 6 games losable.

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Not sure, but Pope Francis didn’t ever go back to visit Argentina (did visit other SA countries). Although he grew up and studied in the US, most of time he has been in Peru (becoming a naturalized citizen) and then on to Rome in 2023 when he became Cardinal. Seems like he wasn’t generally on the list of top ‘favorites’ but is centrist, maybe a compromise between the progressives that would take Francis’ path even further vs the conservatives who want to take things back several decades.

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Not sure why the downvotes – was trying to be factual, but as a non-Catholic, perhaps I shouldn’t really comment other than he seems like a good guy to me who has tried to serve in his faith and appears humbled by the mantle. Or perhaps the downvotes are that he isn’t who some hoped it would be or favors policies or positions they don’t agree with. No feelings hurt here, just curious to me.

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I guess good he thanked Ludwig for what he taught him, but that’s the only person named. Interesting. Some weird silence until this point, but maybe because he was getting other opinions on the hand. Must of jacked it up good or it healed weird or had a lot of scar tissue.

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To feel better, know that:
1) We aren’t relying on Cam Rising and Cam Rising alone like the last 2 years
2) We have an OC that doesn’t require 2 years just to start understanding the system

Beck and a ‘simpler’ offense that can adapt if injuries do occur (knock on wood, hopefully not) and a still very good defense and we can play a well-rounded game, even with some semblance of clock control and minimal turnovers (that’s my biggest worry – that Dampier will try too hard, throw it too hard, and have more INT than we are used to or that Whitt can stomach, but he isn’t going to throw IW in just because of that).

Last year, we were ‘unlucky’. CR injury derailed the season. It was on the coaches for not having an adequate backup plan (again), but hopefully we have Dampier and not too much of a dropoff in IW or Ficklin. Wayshawn is an upgrade (Bernard was asked to do way too much AND did). Defense wore out since the offense couldn’t sustain drives. And the team isn’t usually built for a come-from-behind quick scoring offense.

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Jesus said love God and your neighbor. He spent most time with outcasts and sinners, not the ruling class or rich. And he definitely didn’t put himself first.

Oh, and even though the current administration feels they have some mandate to say what being an ‘American’ is because they won, it should be remembered that 36% of the population (the winning segment) was ‘didn’t vote’ vs 32% for 47 (31% the other candidate).

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I was going to say this as well. McBride was probably joking with that one. And honestly, even though they handed him a bag of money, his fiancé (proposed in Jan, might be his wife now?) is there and I think there’s just some ‘ease’. Sure, he says it was God, but I am fine with that. Remember, these kids are in their early 20s and still figuring life out.

Do I think he would have been developed better at Utah? Sure. Can he make the league either way? I would think a better bet with Utah. But whatever. We’re going to lose some for various reasons, even NIL, it just hurts more that it was TDS with potential ‘tampering’. But the fact is the LDS players/community is going to be very intertwined in SL and Utah counties. Should we stop recruiting LDS athletes? No, absolutely not. For all the good and great ones we’ve had, to throw the baby out with the bathwater for a few ‘stolen’ from TDS, it’s been good to get the in state talent, regardless of these nuances and/or missions.

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Agree and disagree. Injury is always a huge factor, especially to starters. But ESPECIALLY for QB1 with Ludwig. QB2 was never prepared. There will always be a dropoff and QB2 getting up to speed, but with Ludwig’s ‘complicated’ system (Rose still hadn’t picked it up in 2 years?!), they had to go so vanilla, it was easy to defend. So, yes, it wasn’t ‘Rising’, it was putting all the eggs in the QB1 basket, which happened to be Rising.

Hence, the (2). I think having Beck, a younger OC that understands that the days of developing a qb for multiple years in the system to finally get a starting job is over. You have to have something that can be installed in the fall.

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