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After 40 years as an adult watch Utah-BYU games

The reasons BYU is the better team now:
– BYU dominance in the 70s/80s – old news
– 1984 National Champions – by vote, not by beating the better teams – a good team no doubt
– “.. the Lord steps in… Magic “happens”, not fit but for “pumping my gas” – player mindset
– the Refs – pick any…[Read more]

The Utes are not sneaking up on anybody this year. The cost of getting consistently better. Also goes to how the Utes played in the short 2020 year, the commitment of the returning starters, and aggressive recruiting on the transfer portal.

Go Utes!

No – Not Clay Davis. But I would not be surprise that my A&M Grad friend cut and pasted, cobbled together a bunch of articles into he email back to me. I don’t think he intended to plagiarize, but simply pass on to me, what he read and incorporated as his “take”, and that I posted to this blog.

My A&M friend’s take.

The Houston Chronicle broke this story, specifically, Texas A&M beat writer, Brent Zwerneman.
And it was broken on the very day A&M was appearing in Birmingham, just in time for them to speak to the largest media assembly of the year.
That’s awfully convenient, don’t you think?

So this feels like a targeted intentional lea…[Read more]

I met John Stockton as a Rookie, at the Police Athletic League facility on SLC’w west side. Early eighties. I imagined he would be short, considering how he looked side-by-side with Malone and the others. I was very surprised at how large he was in person at 6′ / 6’1″. He was well built, with extraordinarily large hands and feet. He could…[Read more]

Worried, not so much. For BYU a plus; but with a new QB, and a difficult schedule, the Nacau brothers may have wished that had stayed at Utah and UW. Utah will miss S. Nacua, but I have confidence in Enis, Covey, Dixon, Vele and other WRs, particularly with Chad Bumphis coming on board.

BYU gains some depth, but production, at least against…[Read more]

Onlyu’s word is good enough for me, however 247 confirms as well.

247 Link

Nicely done. Thanks for the link.

Give credit to both ADs for scheduling this on such short notice. Winner should take on Cincinnati, for the opportunity of a New Years day bowl? Not a fan of BYU, but they are making the most of COVID and independence. Next year they will go back to sub-mediocracy, certainly as Wilson moves on to the NFL.

Considering the known-knowns/unknowns (health, practices, facilities, fans), and the unknown-unknowns (COVID idiocracy), I chose to be moderately optimistic, expecting Coach Whittingham to have had his players at least conditioned ready to go.

5-1. – Arizona State worries me. They will be ready as well.

From the Oregonlive.com – Oregonlive link

If the season begins Oct. 31, then it’s eight games. Seven regular season games, with an eighth game on the day of the Pac-12 championship game Dec. 19.
Should the season start Nov. 7, then it’s seven games. Six regular season games, with a seventh game on the day the Pac-12 championship game is pla…[Read more]

But starting and ending when? Everything in the news/blogs talks to Oregon and other schools balking at anything sooner than the 31st. Otherwise I would not be unhappy with a PAC12 only schedule.

We should as Ray, bloody, Purchase for his opinion. Probably a good as anybody’s.