They’re telling half the story, part of which conflicts with known facts.

Sign up, and CougarBoard will remember which categories you want to view. Sign up

Report problem with this ad

Nov 28, 2020
10:41:42am

All-American Intervention Needed

They’re telling half the story, part of which conflicts with known facts.

For example, none of the story about us waiting until Tuesday squares with reports from Thamel that we were looking for a game as long as we had a commitment, or the fact that BYU players and coaches practiced on Monday (some spending money to do so) to get ready for UW.

All the while, UW was getting ready for Utah.

Report problem with this ad

All-American

Previous username: all_american01
Bio page: All-American
Joined: Sep 5, 2001
Last login: Apr 28, 2024
Total posts: 14,954 (48 FO)

Report problem with this ad

Messages

Author

Time

The Athletic with the backstory on how SDSU came to play CU.

Everyman

11/28/20 6:27am

This is the only way BYU will get another game IMHO.

Brigham

11/28/20 6:32am

Or talk to other teams outside the pac 12

idacoug

11/28/20 6:33am

How many teams are there available?

Brigham

11/28/20 6:36am

Or interested? BYU apparently has gotten turned down a bunch

ldssdl

11/28/20 7:06am

BYU should talk to multiple conferences to be the contingency plan on any given

Lalau

11/28/20 7:15am

With UW “needing to move on” that far in advance shows the absurdity of them

Albuq_Coug

11/28/20 6:49am

They had to do what’s best for them and found SDSU provided the best solution for them. Not absurd at all.

Gibbcoug

11/28/20 7:34am

Yes. And yet TH screwed up? It’s absurd to say that UW is justified but BYU not.

StalwartBraveTrue

11/30/20 7:53am

Brutal if that’s legit.

JoeExotic

11/28/20 6:50am

I didn’t notice that the portion dealing with BYU was inadvertently deleted

Everyman

11/28/20 6:52am

That doesn’t add up. What was BYU doing on Monday if they weren’t talking?

11/28/20 7:01am

RE: That doesn’t add up. What was BYU doing on Monday if they

maxpowers

11/28/20 7:03am

If true that byu said they wanted to wait for the rankings, then they deserve

maxpowers

11/28/20 6:56am

This has been Tom's one mistake this year. Just schedule the games.

dave

11/28/20 6:58am

It’s consistent with what Holmoe said during the UNA pregame.

rainorsnow

11/28/20 7:06am

And consistent with what the media were reporting. Waiting was a huge blunder.

ldssdl

11/28/20 7:09am

Not at all consistent with what Thamel was reporting.

11/28/20 7:29am

For sure.which is why Holmoe should have told his side of the story

JoeExotic

11/28/20 7:07am

Disagree. No need to burn bridges when we still want games.

11/28/20 7:29am

Don’t have to burn bridges to do that.

JoeExotic

11/28/20 7:52am

I’m thinking there is some truth to what they said. That Tom was wanting to wait

11/28/20 7:56am

Pete thamel of yahoo reported otherwise.

11/28/20 8:02am

Key word here is “if true”. Need both sides.Truth usually in the middle

SwampCougar

11/28/20 8:22am

It’s totally true, Tom blew it big time. Crazy thing is it’s a complete repeat

Blue2thebone

11/28/20 9:44am

And you were a fly on the wall and observed it all happen? Crazy allegations.

ClimbY

11/28/20 10:11am

Not a 🪰 on the wall but the info has all been leaked.

Blue2thebone

11/28/20 10:40am

Source?

SwampCougar

11/28/20 10:56am

The Atlantic gave details of BYU putting off UW until rankings released.

Blue2thebone

11/28/20 11:39am

was a gamble by BYU; would have been a gamble either way; but this one backfired

Scooter

11/28/20 6:58am

If BYU falls just short of a NY6,

Everyman

11/28/20 7:09am

How was it a “gamble”. It should have been a no-brainer.

COACHdrn

11/28/20 8:33pm

That's not entirely true. BYU was willing to sign UW long before Tuesday but UW backed out when it became clear UW

unctoothman

11/28/20 7:30am

The other part of the article is that BYU ended up dealing with the PAC-12

TempeCoug

11/28/20 7:44am

But that may be the only way we get more games. Be flexible

11/28/20 7:51am

I agree we should be flexible but I think with it being Thanksgiving

TempeCoug

11/28/20 8:01am

This was the key...with the players gone and needing to fly back on short notice

ClimbY

11/28/20 8:12am

As an independent BYU chose the wrong time to get conservative with its decision making...you can’t be risk averse.....

Bonoman

11/28/20 7:36am

Calling SidVicious.

Dr MoBYU

11/28/20 7:44am

The real story is the absurdity of the Pac12 expecting to keep teams dangling

11/28/20 8:23am

Worked out for SDSU

JoeExotic

11/28/20 8:29am

The difference was that SDSU had already planned on being around all week

TempeCoug

11/28/20 8:39am

BYU practiced on Monday

JoeExotic

11/28/20 8:46am

Yes. Who knows if it would have worked out for BYU. BL - can’t have a 1-sided

11/28/20 8:51am

Sure you can. It was a bye week and byu is desperate for a game.

JoeExotic

11/28/20 9:06am

More and more negative press blowing up in BYU's face. They should have

byusage

11/28/20 8:41am

There is more proof that the PAC is more difficult to work with than BYU and it

11/28/20 9:11am

But PAC12 is P5, operating from position of strength. BYU is...not

krindorr

11/28/20 9:44am

But saying BYU is difficult to work with is BS when you look at the ridiculous

11/28/20 10:37am

You are vastly overestimating the PR backlash against BYU

11/28/20 9:19am

Especially with GameDay just vindicating us.

Albuq_Coug

11/28/20 9:27am

This makes more sense than all the excuses from CB we have heard. BYU thought

johnnybyu

11/28/20 9:22am

Except we were practicing on Monday.

11/28/20 9:46am

Many out of state players went home last weekend. They were called on Monday

johnnybyu

11/28/20 10:15am

The problem for BYU in this situation that I haven't seen discussed is

dultso

11/28/20 10:14am

This is a valid point. I imagine they could have started the scheduling process

johnnybyu

11/28/20 10:17am

If that's the real problem they should be more transparent

JoeExotic

11/28/20 10:17am

SDSU has more money problems than byu, no?

Undefeated

11/28/20 10:19am

My guess is most schools have a worse money problem than BYU

johnnybyu

11/28/20 10:21am

I haven't been bothered by any of this. Now that I just read that I'm officially

Undefeated

11/28/20 10:19am

When you hear over and over BYU is hard to work with at some point there is

johnnybyu

11/28/20 10:20am

They’re telling half the story, part of which conflicts with known facts.

11/28/20 10:41am

Sounded to me like (during Tom's pregame interview) Tom wanted to wait until

Undefeated

11/28/20 11:45am

RE: The Athletic with the backstory on how SDSU came to play CU.

TEXAS

11/28/20 11:16am

These are epic failures by BYU. This specific situation in multiple ways.

COACHdrn

11/28/20 8:28pm

It really isn’t. Calm down.

11/28/20 9:01pm

Report problem with this ad

Posting on CougarBoard

In order to post, you will need to either sign up or log in.

Report problem with this ad