Holy crap we suck so bad

I don’t know that it was Grimes. Baylor isn’t any good either. The more likely reason was Covid and playing a full 2020 season.

I think it is more that rhe discipline and grit came largely by playing lesser competition. The Y is always up and down, but is definitely trending down since they left the MWC. BYU looked better over previous years because you beat us in a down time and you won a few more games than expected, but 7 of those wins are always scheduled. BYU isn’t bad, but they aren’t ‘back’. BYU will be a middling to bottom B12 team. The church doesn’t want to fund the team the way OSU or maybe Tech/TCU will be willing to.

The BIG 12 should help you tremendously in the long term. I would honestly be more excited about BYU after today than after the COVID year because your program now has a “seat at the table”. You guys could only go so far being an independent and your recruiting and recourses should increase after several years in the BIG 12 (barring any more reallignment).

Let’s just say most Ute fans are not surprised that your defense is struggling under Sitake. He did an okay job with the defense under Kyle, but there were always a couple important games where sitake completely crapped the bed every year.

IIRC nobody was sad to see him go, and our defense immediately improved when he bounced.

Same story with Arod. BYU fans have been complaining about the same stuff we complained about with him. Most notably, that he doesn’t seem to understand that throws to the middle of the field are an option. He was so afraid of his qbs throwing picks that he would rather have them throw it away than throw over the middle. Whitt tried giving him a number of different jobs to see if he would exceed expectations, and he never did.

I think will get in the Big XII and find yourselves in the same situation we were in as we joined the PAC. Decent talent but 1 injury away from being mediocre. It will be many years before your have the depth to stay competitive in November. We lived that for so many years as well.

Your D is not consistently bad. Have you had injuries to your D line or linebackers? Or do you have an inexperienced secondary requiring everyone to drop back afraid of getting beat over the top? Is it the same every game?

Was this one of the reasons tight end Dallin Holker entered the transfer portal? The problems with the culture of the team? 

Fret not coug, you’ll always have cross country!

When I saw the score I was shocked but Liberty isn’t a push over anymore. They are a decent team. We went to UCLA and got a beat down from a team that had to rally to beat Southern Alabama in the 4th quarter at home. BYU will be fine.

The LDS church will not spend $ on NIL outside of the scholarships the school provides. The same way the Utah tax payers won’t spend $ for Utah’s NIL deals. BYU has a much more robust alumni pool and has already embraced NIL. Utah is behind big time when it comes to NIL due to Whitts destain for the whole thing. BYUs biggest recruiting hurdle is the honor code which isn’t going anywhere. NIL and XII will be big but you’ve still got to talk non-LDS kids to come to campus for a church camp college experience. It’s a hard sell.