I agree. But look at who's winning national championships in football...

Nov 21, 2014
11:11:28am

bluefish

...and its not the "good guys" its the SEC. The NCAA has lost effective control over the big money programs. The death penalty needs to be reinstated, but its gone.

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Here is why BYU doesn't compete with the top national programs very often...

bluefish

11/20/14 4:18pm

Yeah, none of that went on in the 1980's

Sea Chicken

11/20/14 4:22pm

And we have many of the same results then, too

Justinodhan

11/20/14 4:26pm

BYU/LaVell tolerated plenty in the 80's

acougfan

11/20/14 5:32pm

Jim McMahon's Book will tell you all you need to know

Ymer Dunker

11/20/14 10:08pm

He didn't tolerate it...

BaYoU

11/21/14 12:53pm

you are wrong

acougfan

11/21/14 4:49pm

I'm not saying players didn't misbehave...

BaYoU

11/22/14 1:00am

So you're like many of BYU fans who aren't so much fanatics about football but

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 4:25pm

Can you be both?

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:32pm

Yes. And No.

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 4:35pm

I think that's true in many cases. But I also think there are a ton of die hard

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:38pm

I do as well. I think.

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 4:41pm

Agreed. It shouldn't be an excuse. We are all expected to be excellent at our

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:48pm

Um, here's a radical concept: The Church owns BYU, so they get to set the rules

BeardedSpock

11/20/14 4:33pm

They could also put millions more $$ into the program

kotacoug

11/20/14 4:35pm

I think the Church wants the program to be self-sufficient more than Top 25

BeardedSpock

11/20/14 4:41pm

What's funny with that logic is fans

DaveLB

11/20/14 4:57pm

ESPN is not unhappy with the BYU contract

BaYoU

11/21/14 11:13am

More evidence ESPN is happy with BYU is all the scheduling arrangements thay are

Lance71

11/21/14 11:34am

Yep

BaYoU

11/21/14 12:36pm

They do value the program as a missionary tool but

P-Town2P-Town

11/20/14 5:27pm

With that line if thinking in wonder how the widow feels about the 2 billion$

kotacoug

11/20/14 6:33pm

I don't know, but my guess is

P-Town2P-Town

11/20/14 8:35pm

Great let's do the same for football

kotacoug

11/20/14 9:47pm

Touché

P-Town2P-Town

11/20/14 10:11pm

Couldn't agree more

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 10:22pm

We are, aren't we?

BaYoU

11/21/14 12:58pm

They have

BaYoU

11/21/14 12:42pm

Thats not where I was going with my post. At all.

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 4:36pm

Hard to tell with your subtle snipe about fans of a "Church owned university"

BeardedSpock

11/20/14 4:39pm

I don't want the church to really do much differently.

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 4:47pm

First off, is BYU is "mediocre" there are about 70-80 Division I schools that

BeardedSpock

11/20/14 4:55pm

I can't debate with people that don't see how mediocre

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 5:25pm

Pretty lofty expectations considering his record against decent teams.

DaveLB

11/20/14 5:39pm

What a strange comment. You would rather see BYU cheat, abandon it's principles,

Lance71

11/20/14 4:35pm

Yep. That's exactly what I said. Word for word.

Gerald-DeGroot

11/20/14 5:27pm

I didn't get that extreme from the post...

icecougar

11/20/14 8:12pm

more like they're fans of Bronco first and then fans of BYU football

icecougar

11/20/14 7:46pm

Maybe this explains SOME of the difference. Stanford plays by the rules.

Still Questing

11/20/14 4:26pm

I'm sure Stanford tolerates drug and alcohol abuse. And partying

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:33pm

Ah, my bad, I missed #5. That automatically kicks out every FBS team but BYU.

Still Questing

11/20/14 4:34pm

Yeah but I also think it's a cop out. The other ones are a disadvantage for sure

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:36pm

Yeah, just stating the obvious - #5 was only needed to make the game pointless.

Still Questing

11/20/14 4:38pm

Look, BYU comes close enough at times to reasonably think that they can

boogers

11/20/14 4:31pm

Bronco is pushing the program into a service academy mode that we

kotacoug

11/20/14 4:33pm

I just don't see that at all. He's odd, but not that odd.

boogers

11/20/14 4:35pm

Wrong. Its not Bronco, its the administration, from the top down...

bluefish

11/20/14 5:59pm

Bronco has taken it to a whole new level

kotacoug

11/20/14 6:34pm

Name a coach we could hire that would get us into a power conference?

bluefish

11/20/14 5:51pm

We could be A LOT better than we are with some changes in the culture

kotacoug

11/20/14 4:31pm

See, I don't know if its a culture issue or just a talent issue.

boogers

11/20/14 4:34pm

They go hand in hand. The culture ends up dictating the talent

kotacoug

11/20/14 4:47pm

I don't know. BYU has never had deep talent. They've had the stars align

boogers

11/20/14 4:50pm

I recently ran into a former player and we talked at length about this.

TrueAndBlue

11/20/14 4:35pm

Curious, what did the player think should change? Was he a starter?

boogers

11/20/14 4:38pm

Just got in my car, will post later

kotacoug

11/20/14 4:39pm

My list of things the top programs do are all part of a program "culture"...

bluefish

11/20/14 5:54pm

Offenses have changed to be more like BYU's was in the 80's and defenses

ByuMba90

11/20/14 4:35pm

Agreed. This is why we lose to Utah regularly. Whittingham figured us out...

bluefish

11/20/14 5:55pm

utah? BSU?

nashty

11/20/14 4:40pm

Not buying it.

bluefish

11/20/14 6:01pm

It doesn't help that our coaches tend to suck.

Real Men Wear Blue

11/20/14 5:01pm

Look, we're out to prove that we CAN get it done with BYU's standards.

CalGTR

11/20/14 5:35pm

Agreed. I didn't say I hope we fail. But after 20 years, I'm a realist...

bluefish

11/20/14 5:57pm

So were we doing something from points 1-6 at the beginning of this year? We

Jam Master J

11/20/14 7:08pm

if we cultivated mined Polynesia and Africa through the church

Y05

11/20/14 7:47pm

Like Monson said

crookedUTE

11/20/14 9:06pm

I haven't looked into whether or not they've finished top 5, but Mark Richt at

FierceArc

11/20/14 11:11pm

Hogwash (I can say hogwash now that I'm in my 40's)

marklar39

11/20/14 11:50pm

I just don't believe cheating gives people an advantage

deljdc

11/21/14 7:57am

do you want to quantify how long long term is?

Y05

11/21/14 8:09am

Tennesee was on top and took a dive. Texas was on top and took a dive. USC was

deljdc

11/21/14 4:56pm

but what about the long term collusion the P5 has going with no end in sigh

Y05

11/22/14 1:13am

I agree that this poses a big danger to BYU, but I don't view that

deljdc

11/22/14 6:37am

I agree. But look at who's winning national championships in football...

bluefish

11/21/14 11:11am

That's the part of the country that has the players.

deljdc

11/21/14 4:53pm

But you wouldn't know if it did, right? i mean we hear about

SaltLakeCoug

11/21/14 7:35pm

Translation: Let's not worry about being mediocre because unless you cheat, you

BYUisLife

11/21/14 8:23am

Agreed...

crookedUTE

11/21/14 4:51pm

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