BD

Win the turnover battle.

Even if Utah is even with BYU on turnover margin I think they win. If Utah is +1 or more in turnover margin they win big.

Now, with a third string QB in his very first start, that will be hard to do.

Plus there is this daunting stat.…[Read more]

Oregon State twice? Unreal.

I’m LDS (not always a good one however) and I think you are spot on correct here.

Byu supporters are trying to justify their NIL as a way to promote Byu and hence the church. Well I can think of 50,000 better ways to do just that.

It’s pure arrogance. Or, to use another word that resonates with church members, “pride”. Paying millions of…[Read more]

Spot on. Yes, I can’t help but believe that BYU’s NIL really is pay to play, and that people (not just Utes fans) will resent this and it creates negativity surrounding it.

Yes, BYU the institution isn’t paying NIL – the donors are. But people who will resent this and see it as a negative really don’t care. To them, it doesn’t matter, given that…[Read more]

I was going to post something similar. Glad you did.

It seems clear to me and you: BYU should NOT be a pay to play place. AND they should not buy players that don’t fit the mission.

Some BYU fans have interpreted this to mean:
“We should not use pay to play for a player that does not fit the mission.”

In other words, to them, pay to play is…[Read more]

“Ute fans loved it when Ken Garff showed up with new Dodge Rams.”

True. But none of us expected a Dodge Ram to suddenly bring in the top half-dozen high-4* and 5* players to Utah either.

One more:

IF he is willing to come back at a major reduction in NIL $$.

I think it will be a lower-scoring game. I’ll say BYU wins 24-13.

I’ve watched some videos on BYU and while I am no football X’s and O’s expert by any means, I see that they have excellent play calling on both defense and offense and the players execute very well. They are well-coached. The players know where to be and know what to do in most…[Read more]

Completely agree. Let’s hope Wilson doesn’t transfer.

“The lack of transparency is frustrating. It’s easy to sell something when you keep it hidden in a box, but once you reveal what’s inside, it becomes much harder to convince people to buy in. By restricting media and fans from seeing the reality of the team’s performance through practices or scrimmages, we’re left begging for crumbs from a paranoi…

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“I find nothing contradictory with the statement by the BYU dude.”

He’s actually not a “BYU dude”. He’s a high-ranking church leader that has “stewardship” over BYU and other church educational endeavors – at least it appears to me.

You’re right in that BYU doesn’t directly pay. That isn’t the point.

The point is that the high-ranking church…[Read more]

Maybe you can ask Tony to eliminate the “They So Poo Poo” category so we can pat ourselves on the back as we don’t “stoop down to their level”.

Come on, this is what the TSPP category is for. We actually don’t have too many posts in this category as compared to all the others.

” just didn’t love that we started a thread about how TSPP is “breaking their own rules”

BYU fans trash LDS Ute fans all the time. When BYU “breaks their own rules” it is utter hypocrisy when their fans support it.

Seems to me byu donors are tying to get this guy to come to byu to play. They are offering up to $4.5 million. I have a hard time thinking this isn’t some form of “pay to play”.

Multiple sources tell @On3sports that No. 1 recruit AJ Dybantsa is expected to land an NIL package north of $3M and could get as high as $4M.

A source close to BYU said, “4 to $4.5 million is what they are prepared to pay.”

More: https://t.co/C5kyg92zQV pic.twitter.com/YrfXsECWVo

— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) October 22, 2024

I read on X that some players deleted those posts. Now I can’t find the X post that said that.

Can anybody confirm this? I’m not on Instagram so I can’t know.

Wow.

MP – Mycah Pittman?

Utah had a players-only meeting this week. Micah Bernard said Isaac Wilson said some words that motivated the team.

— Joe Coles (@JoeAColes) October 15, 2024

At the player’s meeting, Isaac Wilson spoke to the team, and the players say it was a great moment to rally around their new QB1.

“It’s no longer freshman, it’s QB1,” Brant Kuithe said.

— Josh Furlong (@JFurKSL) October 15, 2024