There are some really well known instances where it has been a

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Jul 8, 2019
9:02:31pm

Gentleman Stan All-American

huge positive. There are examples both at and away from BYU. I personally know one instance very well.

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Coach Rose dealing with Players Wives

CT98

7/8/19 9:53am

Especially when they are youtube vloggers, would be my guess.

IdahoCoug

7/8/19 9:56am

Bingo

jaredm

7/8/19 5:46pm

what a dreadful way to go through life- trying to be a social media "influencer"

Mayor of Cougartown

7/9/19 10:35am

I don't want to tell anyone how to live their life, but if my kid/spouse were a college athlete I'd stay far away from

shimmy

7/8/19 10:08am

Same with life in general

Pretorian

7/8/19 11:04am

Except replace "rarely" with "never"

ochobeeguy

7/8/19 11:44am

Indeed

Pretorian

7/8/19 11:47am

But those mommy blogs aren't going to write themselves!

runnincoug

7/8/19 4:25pm

Football is different than basketball in that football players have only one

Jesse Pinkman

7/8/19 10:12am

Yeah, that comes with the territory of being married to anyone in the public eye. They need to accept that reality and

John Doe

7/8/19 10:14am

In all instances that I know of marriage has been a bigger detriment than...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 10:15am

The only, rare, exceptions I can think of are when the spouse is also a high

TripleCrownCoug

7/8/19 10:44am

Or when the spouse has siblings or parents who played high level sports.

ldssdl

7/8/19 12:52pm

This is what happened to my niece and her husband...

m0resn0w

7/8/19 11:22am

It's a catch 22 situation for sure. If married, lower possibility for HC infractions, also

CLCougar

7/8/19 11:22am

I will take the opposite viewpoint, In most cases its a positive

TheLost

7/8/19 11:35am

It did seem like marriage was good for Takitaki (he has said so)

TayPower

7/8/19 11:55am

I think Taysom said his wife had a big roll in him coming back his senior year.

Powerbait DPM studnt

7/8/19 12:01pm

I think there can be, and are, positives as well...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 12:14pm

agree. always exceptions but in general its not a good thing imo.

cougfanz

7/8/19 12:25pm

This is BYU.. Most of these kids are RM's who have been told..

TheLost

7/8/19 12:43pm

yep, good for life and eternal salvation. bad for your athletic career.

cougfanz

7/8/19 12:56pm

Right, which kind of backs up the point we're making...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 1:15pm

I think the same thing applies to elite musicianship--for how many talented

The Chelsea Dagger

7/8/19 2:22pm

I don't know as much about that as I do sports but it certainly makes sense...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 2:36pm

Every married professional athlete would disagree with you.

TheLost

7/8/19 3:03pm

Well aside from the fact you don’t know “every married professional athlete”...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 3:51pm

I was just rewording what you said 🙂

TheLost

7/8/19 7:53pm

I didn’t say anything close to what you “reworded”...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 10:08pm

Yeah, I wasn’t saying Takitaki’s athletic ability improved b/c of

TayPower

7/8/19 6:37pm

Yea I think you’re right...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 10:11pm

Takitaki

baldcoug74

7/8/19 2:28pm

I addressed him below in another post...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 2:39pm

Jimmer

kiyoshige

7/8/19 12:25pm

He didn't marry until after college if memory serves me correctly...

CoachSpeak

7/8/19 12:36pm

Yes, that is my point - many benefits to marrying after college

kiyoshige

7/8/19 12:51pm

Fake Yogism: Marriage is the leading cause of divorce in the United States

mrphotogenic

7/8/19 3:40pm

The NFL has a program to help rookies prepare for all of the landmines

deljdc

7/8/19 4:51pm

There are some really well known instances where it has been a

Gentleman Stan

7/8/19 9:02pm

Coachspeak speaks truth...

Vernon Dozier

7/8/19 9:40pm

Well if they dated for long enough shouldn't they have noticed he was never

ColonelMustard

7/9/19 6:37pm

It’s different...

CoachSpeak

7/9/19 7:02pm

good points. i'm not married yet so i didn't even think about how she might get

ColonelMustard

7/9/19 7:44pm

You have your opinion.. I have first hand knowledge...

TheLost

7/10/19 7:49am

You have no more first hand knowledge than I do...

CoachSpeak

7/10/19 12:18pm

I'll say this - a lot of good inside info comes from the players wives.

Machiavelli

7/8/19 10:56am

Wives and players best stay off Twitter, FB, and even CB to avoid criticism

D.T. Survivor

7/8/19 11:54am

I think we saw this with Dallin Leavitt's wife chiming in to defend her hubby

CT98

7/8/19 2:27pm

I didn't see her at the bow.

Q-grr

7/9/19 8:16am

There are a lot of life lessons here

lilpenny

7/8/19 12:11pm

You make some good points. If you are holding back the career of your

Mitty

7/8/19 2:34pm

It's tough because our religion gives us a much longer view of what's important

runnincoug

7/8/19 4:32pm

Meh. Nobody gets married anymore. Oh wait, that’s just my kids

Croweater

7/9/19 12:44pm

It was no different for Bronco Mendenhall and his wife Holly...

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