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  • Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
    this update simply calls into question what BYU is doing...or not doing. I still don't get it.
    Playing its part in the grand plan to destabilize the Big East.
    Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

    For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

    Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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    • I would have been annoyed by that crapfest the past few pages if it weren't for two things:

      1. Eddie's performance was flawless.
      2. Every post counts towards the 12,000 needed to resolve the Big 12 dilemma. Doc said so.

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      • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
        How many times does Holmoe need to say it? BYU prefers independence.
        How many times does Holmoe need to be reminded that the fans do not?
        Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
        - Howard Aiken

        Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
        - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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        • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
          How many times does Holmoe need to say it? BYU prefers independence.
          He would need to say it once to have said it at all.
          Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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          • Originally posted by atheistcougar View Post
            How many times does Holmoe need to be reminded that the fans do not?
            Don't look at me, I sent him a four paragraph email. He knows my preference.
            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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            • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
              Don't look at me, I sent him a four paragraph email. He knows my preference.
              Dammit, I looked.
              Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
              - Howard Aiken

              Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
              - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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              • Originally posted by atheistcougar View Post
                Dammit, I looked.
                Most have to at least once
                "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                • Pete Thamel's latest on Louisville and West Virginia.

                  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/sp...ml?_r=1&src=tp

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                  • Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                    Pete Thamel's latest on Louisville and West Virginia.

                    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/sp...ml?_r=1&src=tp
                    I am beginning to think Pete Thamel doesn't know anything.
                    "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                    -Turtle
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                    • Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                      I am beginning to think Pete Thamel doesn't know anything.
                      Why's that? I thought the opening paragraph was interesting:

                      West Virginia University athletic officials spent most of Tuesday preparing to leave the Big East Conference for the Big 12. The Mountaineers’ athletic director, Oliver Luck, was so sure of the move that he tipped off Big East colleagues Monday night and told staff members Tuesday.
                      How bad would that suck for that guy if WVU doesn't end up in the B12?

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                      • Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                        Pete Thamel's latest on Louisville and West Virginia.

                        http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/sp...ml?_r=1&src=tp
                        Add 'student athlete' to the list of overused phrases. It is more than just a little disingenuous to continue to push the notion that those in charge care about the players' education in all this.
                        "Either evolution or intelligent design can account for the athlete, but neither can account for the sports fan." - Robert Brault

                        "Once I seen the trades go down and the other guys signed elsewhere," he said, "I knew it was my time now." - Derrick Favors

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                        • What a pissing match this turned out to be. Do any of these programs involved feel any sense of embarrassment? I think the addition of a team from the Big East all but ensures that BYU will not be going at any time. The geographic footprint of the conference would have shifted eastward. If they add teams it will be from the east. Cincy would have a better chance than BYU.

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                          • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post


                            there is no limit on the black card.
                            Of course there's a limit. There's ALWAYS a limit...

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                            • Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                              Pete Thamel's latest on Louisville and West Virginia.

                              http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/sp...ml?_r=1&src=tp
                              I know everyone in Utah is use to their state representatives meddling in college sports, but seriously WTF.

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                              • Boone Pickens gives his opinion on WVU...

                                Conference realignment is bubbling up again. You liked the addition of TCU to the Big 12. What about the possibility of West Virginia?

                                Well, I've got to be convinced on West Virginia. I haven't seen anything on the school. But TCU was easy. That was like coming home.

                                What are your concerns about West Virginia?

                                Morgantown … as I remember, you've got to fly into Pittsburgh and then drive a couple hours. That's pretty isolated.

                                You've always favored the Big 12. If it survives, does it matter what form it's in?

                                To me, you go out here to West Virginia, you're going to go a long way. I didn't like the Pac-10 for that reason. I feel like in the Pac-10, you're going to end up in an east division and end up playing the schools you played before. So why not just hold the Big 12 together? I still believe we can save the Big 12, but I say that Texas is going to have to look like the rest of us in the Big 12 instead of looking like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I don't like that. As long as there's a difference between what Texas has and what the rest of us have, it's going to be a problem every year until you finally go to an equal conference.
                                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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