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I guess when you still have open spots this late, you take what is available. This guy didn’t average over 10 points a game at the JC level. I doubt he will see a lot of playing time.

If staying healthy is critical to our offense being successful, we’re in trouble. We will not stay healthy this year. No college football team will. They key is depth and being able to minimize the dropoff when you have injuries to multiple starters, which is inevitable.

These are college kids so no surprise they are doing things most college kids do regardless of an honor code. My problem with the honor code is that they ask the students to police each other. They are just promoting a tattle-tale judgmental culture.

I know of several people who were breaking the School Down South so called honor code by engaging in various kinds of sexual relations, but subsequently lied about their actions when questioned by their bishop, which in my view, is an offense much more serious in comparison.

An experienced O line can pick up blitzes and give the QB some big play opportunities. Throw a running QB in the mix and this offense may not have to throw much. I’m excited about the offense this year. Just need to stay healthy.

Even 40 years ago I would see McMahon with a beer and wonder how he got away with it. LE could have got in big trouble had he got caught not reporting him to the HC. My wife attended BYU in that same time frame and she went to lots of parties with alcohol and drugs. Lots of football players. That was going on and she got turned in to the HC for a…[Read more]

It’s also a different time than 40+ years ago. Everything is online now. Decades ago, it was much easier to sweep that stuff under the rug. Today? It’s all out there – from photos to videos to DMs.

I don’t think the folks at South Temple turned a blind eye to JMac. I think Lavel and staff did everything they could to hide what he was doing until he played his final game for BYU. I believe that the leaders in SLC were told that everything is fine. They want to open their flagship university to non-members because they can be a positive…[Read more]

Not really. It’s only “half a season”, and he doesn’t even have to disenroll. Had he not opted to leave on his own, he could have taken as many classes as he would have wanted.

He got a light slap on the wrist for an offense that would have led to a 1-yr disenrollment for any of the other “regular” students at…[Read more]

There are 8 billionaires in the state – 4 of them have ties to byu (Flat brim, his brother, his dad, and one of the two scumbags who run PACS [who are in hot water with the government]) with the crumbl guy not far behind. If they pooled their money to endow an NIL fund collectively of 500 million they could conceivably easily afford $20 million a…[Read more]

Good point, but billionaires typically have more than just one billion dollars. And it’s not like their fortunes are just sitting stagnant. They continue to grow their wealth, whether it be from their business ventures, investments, or simply from accruing interest. Unless they are paying tens of millions of dollars in NIL each year, they aren’t…[Read more]

I read in years past the NBA had some workaround for the tax and monetary rate, but that could be changed with all the recent squabbling and the “51st state” nonsense. I liked it better when we just called Canada “America’s top hat”…

What these players are asking for is not spare change. Let’s take a billionaire, for example. A billionaire only has 1000 million. I know that sounds like a lot, but AJ was 7 mill. That is almost 1% of a billionaires net worth. If it was a one time thing, it might be ok, but to have to make donations like that every year, as those players…[Read more]

I agree proud Ute. My point is they turned a blind eye on the HC when McMahon was clearly breaking it. The HC violations are kept in house for a reason. The JR case was national news and therefore had to be enforced. If the lawsuit was not filed Jake would be the starting QB. You can’t tell me players don’t get caught occasionally having sex and…[Read more]

I think you are right about the donors paying big money if they continue to win. However, what I was referring to are the folks in Salt Lake putting a stop to “pay for play” if they see the values of their flagship school changing. They will not tolerate BYU becoming a party school. Just my opinion.

If you’re winning and gaining national attention (McMahon era) that trumps values. If your losing (Crowton era) values matter. As long as BYU is winning the donors will continue their support.

Utahs success in football for the past 20+ years has been hard for BYU and their fans. As a long term (old) Utah football fan I know exactly how it f…[Read more]

It appears to me that BYU donors are focusing mostly on basketball. This makes sense because you don’t have to get as many star players. The one donor said, “We will not be outbid.” Utah is going to have a difficult time competing with this.

What will stop this BYU NIL money? More issues like Retlaff. The powers that control BYU will not like…[Read more]

Haha what a coincidence