You said: "Byu has good players but no one who knows how to win close games"

Pretty unfair and certainly untrue.

It is one thing to take exception to individual plays and something else to suggest it is proof that there is somekind of character flaw that makes them incapable of winning.

You said: "Explain to me how one wins by not minimizing mistakes. Explain to me how your position, it doesn't matter what the players do, is correct."

We can agree that minimizing mistakes is important to winning. I don't think you can objectively say that my position is it doesn't matter what players do.

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