Serious question: Why is BYU sports so provincial? This is not a troll. It's a serious question.
BYU has had stretches of domination or dynasty in both the big DI team sports. You could make a case that BYU's basketball tradition is slightly better than utah's if you ignored post-season play. Utah's rising to BCS heights and stellar bowl and vs. top 25 record gives BYU's football tradition a run.
BYU's football team is 1-20 agaisnt ranked teams, last 21 games. Lavelle Edwards had, to be blunt, a terrible bowl record. In this century BYU has a losing bowl record; BYU underperformed against UCLA last year in the Vegas bowl. BYU's basketball team hasn't won an NCAA playoff game since the early 90's.
What's the matter with BYU? What are the physiological, psycoligical and societal factors that make for BYU's chronic failures on the big stage?
BYU has had stretches of domination or dynasty in both the big DI team sports. You could make a case that BYU's basketball tradition is slightly better than utah's if you ignored post-season play. Utah's rising to BCS heights and stellar bowl and vs. top 25 record gives BYU's football tradition a run.
BYU's football team is 1-20 agaisnt ranked teams, last 21 games. Lavelle Edwards had, to be blunt, a terrible bowl record. In this century BYU has a losing bowl record; BYU underperformed against UCLA last year in the Vegas bowl. BYU's basketball team hasn't won an NCAA playoff game since the early 90's.
What's the matter with BYU? What are the physiological, psycoligical and societal factors that make for BYU's chronic failures on the big stage?
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