GameForAnyFuss

Not playing for much anymore? Say wut? Last I heard were still on top of the south, and 2 wins plus an ASU loss gives us the division championship. 
I guess we have different definitions of “not playing for much.”

You want to throw a freshman DB out there for his first-ever college playing time against Oregon’s throw game? Surely you jest!

This is an issue I mentioned after a past game that is still cropping up: Low-percentage plays in situations where you need a high-percentage one. I’m talking about 3rd and short or 3rd and goal situations. Nothing frustrates me more than an endzone fade on 3rd and goal, or going long on 3rd and short. 
I’m not opposed to doing low-percentage…[Read more]

The only thing I’m taking off Whit’s shoulders is the tendency to lose when he’s in first place. I bet you’d see the same trend in almost every team in the country. If you’re in first place, it’s probably because you played a lot of bad teams early… eventually you’ll lose because all you’ve got left to play are good teams.
I’m not giving Whit a…[Read more]

I would say #1 is because Utah has to win games to get into first place, and usually those are against the less good teams in the conference. At that point there’s no one left to face but the better teams. We’re just regressing to the mean is all. 
It just has to do with the quality of the opponents and when we play them. I’m not prepared to say…[Read more]

They haven’t given up for the last 10 seasons – why would they give up now? 

Here’s how I see the rest of the year going: Utah fans will continue to wildly overreact to everything. We will get way too high when we win, and way too low when we lose. We will not think reasonably or rationally in the least. 

Step away from the ledge. Huntley wasn’t exactly tearing it up out there. The dropoff to Shelley is not large. 

Hang out with friends and family. It’s just a game played by kids. 
Also, it helps to remember that Utah is a basketball school. 😉

Sorry to be “that guy”, but I’m bewildered by ASU. That’s the best team we’ve played all year, bar none. They’re way better than Wazzu or UW. How they’ve lost 4 games is beyond me. 

Timmy is an enigma IMO. He has the weirdest release on his shot I’ve ever seen, but it goes in. He’ll be capable of scoring in bunches, but other nights he’s going to be dismal. 

I attended the game, alongside about a dozen other people. I’ll make a post tomorrow.

Yeah I’ve said before that BYU-P is the only school in the world that can take a girl who’s valedictorian of her high school class with a 4.4 GPA and convince her that her goal in life should be to drop out of college and work at Hogi Yogi to put her husband through school so that later on he can sell real estate while she stays home playing Legos…[Read more]

The BYU-P fanbase harbors many boo-birds. Like it or not, it has a psychological effect on young players.
Our fanbase doesn’t have as many of them, but we have our share. Not telling anyone how to be fans, but maybe we should think about how we react the next time we go 3 and out, or Huntley takes a sack instead of throwing the ball away, or we…[Read more]

I know why he did it: Because the QB did a couple of jukes before deciding to slide. I get that we’re trying to protect sliding QBs from unnecessary hits, but I say if you’re going to throw jukes, you’re now a running back and you can get hit like a running back.
That said, Blair can stop leading with the crown and involve his arms in the tackle.…[Read more]

Utah points scored – 32 under 
UCLA points scored – 20 under 
Utah rushing yards – 180 over
Utah passing yards – 300 under 
Utah Sacks – 3.5 over
Utah Turnovers forced – 1.5 under 
# of times Covey is pronounced incorrectly – 5.5 under (it will be 0 because I’ll have the TV muted) 
# of times the LA Rams are mentioned – 7.5 under (it will be 0…[Read more]

I hate to be that guy, but writing “pump the breaks” are the fingernails on my personal chalkboard. Brakes, man…brakes.
We’ll lose again this season. But it won’t be tomorrow. 

I bet they go for Ken Jennings or some other BYU-P weirdo grad, thereby perpetuating all the myths people already have about the state of Utah. 

I knew this young lady. I’m beyond devastated. 

Pump the brakes: Computers said we were favored to win each of our remaining games. They do NOT say we are favored to win out. That’s a very different thing with very different numbers behind it. If somebody wants to link to the latest Massey numbers, I’ll figure out the odds of winning out. 
I don’t want to be the guy p**sing in the cereal, but I…[Read more]