...and I'm a big believer in doing something different, even to an extreme, if it might give you an advantage over teams with better talent. BYU's success under LE is largely due to that sort of thinking.

I think the worst thing you can do to a team with less talent than your opponents is to go in and play the same game your opponents are playing. If you are Bama and you know you have the best talent, it's in your best interest to keep the game as vanilla as possible and just let your superior talent dominate.

...I like Anae's theory that BYU should/can have the type of young men that will be healthier, better conditioned, more disciplined, and can outwork, out-aerobic-run-and-keep-going most other teams (see Daniel in the OT ). This may not end-up being true or working out for us, but I think it was/is worth trying. Maybe the idea is right, but Robert forced it too quickly on a group that just couldn't do it; maybe we just needed a few years and the hiring of Winny to start giving this a real chance.

So, I totally get the criticism that it has been bad for us and has stressed our defense too much. I get it. But at the end of the day I think GFGH (or some variant of it) may still be the edge we need to beat teams with more talent than us and allow us to score the kind of basketball points BYU of old used to put up on equal-to-lesser teams.