The Official Jimmerphilia Thread

[Lost Student]

Strange article, but I thought it belongs here:

How Thomas Aquinas’s Theory Of Scripture Explains Why Jimmer Fredette Is The Hinge On Which Modern Mormonism Pivots

All this new benevolent pluralism needed was a crossover star, and where Mitt Romney failed, Jimmer Fredette seems to have succeeded. Gordon B. Hinckley could have asked for nothing more than John Buccigross taking three essential steps: First, chuckling in admiration over Jimmer’s well-earned basketball stardom, Buccigross salutes Jimmer for the fact that his particular basketball talents admirably fit the required parameters to be anointed by SportsCenter: be visually pleasing; make dunks or three pointers, or better, both; perform remarkable individual physical feats; most of all, win. With Jimmer thus inducted into the official ESPN Pantheon of Acceptable Sports Stars Buccigross then asks the question that closes the circle and makes Jimmer into the avatar of modern Mormonism: “How old were you when you made that decision, and why did you choose to be a Mormon?”

The Anagogical Sense. In which the text illustrates the coming heavenly kingdom; in which Ezra’s rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem gestures to the imminent creation of the Kingdom of God. Here is where Jimmer Fredette has become the future. Some historians have claimed that the path to John F. Kennedy’s triumph over Richard Nixon began with Knute Rockne’s improbable transformation of Notre Dame from sleepy parochial college in Nowhere, Indiana to nationally feared football powerhouse. This is not to say (heavens) anything so crassly predictive as that Jimmer Fredette is the herald of President Romney.*** It is, however, to say that Jimmer Fredette embodies the Mormonism of the Millennial generation; that his remaking of the basketball of the Mormon corridor in the image of American cable sports is the final twist of the knife in the weak and fluttering heart of retrenchment Mormonism, and the inauguration of a new age of cultural integration.

[Art Vandelay]

BYU Bomber. That's Jimmer as the Unabomber.

If someone knew someone, who did screenprinting and could make shirts from any jpeg, what do you think the back of a hypothetical BYUBMBR shirt would look like? And in this make-believe situation, how do you think Jimmer would look on a blue shirt?

[Blueintheface]

If someone knew someone, who did screenprinting and could make shirts from any jpeg, what do you think the back of a hypothetical BYUBMBR shirt would look like? And in this make-believe situation, how do you think Jimmer would look on a blue shirt?

13. Are you honest in all your dealings with your fellow man?

[cougjunkie]

13. Are you honest in all your dealings with your fellow man?

Art doesn't worry about that stuff.

But were either of you already a long time Cowboy club member, thus (hopefully) getting you better seats?*




There is a man who seems to share my name, in Cheyenne, who will need to change his mailing address back from his new WA residence after the tournament.

[Art Vandelay]

13. Are you honest in all your dealings with your fellow man?

13 If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things...

and you didn't answer the hypothetical question, especially the blue shirt part. My friend likes wearing blue to games.

[YOhio]

If someone knew someone, who did screenprinting and could make shirts from any jpeg, what do you think the back of a hypothetical BYUBMBR shirt would look like? And in this make-believe situation, how do you think Jimmer would look on a blue shirt?

Art you goofball. Just buy the shirt.

[Art Vandelay]

Art you goofball. Just buy the shirt.

Its just as cheap to buy the shirt as having my friend do it. I'm interested in how it would look on a blue shirt. I plan to buy 2 or 3 from the site and give them out as gifts, but I want to wear blue in Vegas.

[cougjunkie]

Its just as cheap to buy the shirt as having my friend do it. I'm interested in how it would look on a blue shirt. I plan to buy 2 or 3 from the site and give them out as gifts, but I want to wear blue in Vegas.

Will you see what your friend will charge me to do it on a blue hoodie?

[Art Vandelay]

Will you see what your friend will charge me to do it on a blue hoodie?

I forgot to add I also wanted a hoodie. I'm willing to spend the $20 for blue shirt and hoodie and see how it turns out. I'm not sure if the lettering on the back would look good or not. It almost seems better underneath the picture. I will check for you CJ, usually the print is cheap it is mainly the cost of the shirt or whatever is being printed on.

For the record, for the second time (because i have a guilty conscious), I'm buying 3 whites ones from the site.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I forgot to add I also wanted a hoodie. I'm willing to spend the $20 for blue shirt and hoodie and see how it turns out. I'm not sure if the lettering on the back would look good or not. It almost seems better underneath the picture. I will check for you CJ, usually the print is cheap it is mainly the cost of the shirt or whatever is being printed on.

For the record, for the second time (because i have a guilty conscious), I'm buying 3 whites ones from the site.

Why don't you email the site and ask them to do a hoodie?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I thought some of our posters would enjoy this shirt
http://cgi.ebay.com/Jimmer-HOPE-T-sh...#ht_500wt_1156

[Surfah]

Jimmer on ESPN Radio yesterday, Doug Gottlieb show:

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?callsign=ESPNRADIO&id=6110550&autoplay=1

[oxcoug]

I'm seeing an argument for why BYU boosters should be able to vet who top BYU scholarship athletes date.

Jimmer doesn't need to bring his girl home at Christmas, he needs to bring her to a CC luncheon where she'll do shuttles and 3 cone drills and the membership will vote.

If donor money is paying for schollies then donors should have a say in dating decisions as the money should be scoring longterm ROI as well as near term - i.e. we need future Jimmers bred with 5'10 volleyball girls or athletic 5'8 tennis girls, not super-hyper 5'1 cheer girls who give the world a 5'8 Jimmer Jr who HAS to shoot everything from 35 feet because he can't get shots any closer.

[Commando]

I'm seeing an argument for why BYU boosters should be able to vet who top BYU scholarship athletes date.

Jimmer doesn't need to bring his girl home at Christmas, he needs to bring her to a CC luncheon where she'll do shuttles and 3 cone drills and the membership will vote.

If donor money is paying for schollies then donors should have a say in dating decisions as the money should be scoring longterm ROI as well as near term - i.e. we need future Jimmers bred with 5'10 volleyball girls or athletic 5'8 tennis girls, not super-hyper 5'1 cheer girls who give the world a 5'8 Jimmer Jr who HAS to shoot everything from 35 feet because he can't get shots any closer.

Right. We don't really want another Austin Ainge situation on our hands...

[myboynoah]

Sister Peralta responds:

No ‘idle’ worship with Jimmer

“[I] was mildly amused at how many people looked me up on Facebook just to tell me how much they disagree,” Peralta said in an e-mail. “After reading some of the comments, I got pretty upset. Seriously, I felt like half of the population of BYU was after my blood. After I changed my privacy settings so I wouldn’t get any more comments, I deleted the post everyone was commenting on. Many of the comments were supporting Jimmer, but some were personal attacks. They were disrespectful and offensive.”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Some students said they thought the letter was a parody. Peralta, however, said she was serious.

“I have strong opinions and I’m not afraid to voice them,” she said. “Why can’t people respect that, no matter how much they disagree? I don’t take back anything.”

Peralta said she feels some people misinterpreted her letter.

“I do not hate Jimmer,” Peralta said. “As I said in my letter, he is perfectly free to live his dreams, and good luck to him. I’m simply annoyed at the situation. I think some of his fans are taking things too far. I actually feel sorry for the guy; being mobbed does not sound fun. I’m tired of people giving me horrified looks when I mention in casual conversation that I don’t have an All Sports Pass and have never seen a BYU basketball game. Nor do I plan to; I have my priorities, and watching sports is definitely not one of them. More than anything, I just want to be left in peace to focus on my schooling and on my husband without being condemned for disliking sports.”

Jimmer stands at the door knocking. He is not going to come in and force us to be what He wants us to be. The door handle is on our side. It is up to us to hear His voice, open the door, and invite Jimmer in.

Open the door, Sister Peralta, open the door.