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  • scottie
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2008
    • 5247
    #976
    Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
    Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08...#ixzz0x5KVvtW8
    Ouch:
    All of this time the Notre Dame of the West has been making a bi-yearly visit to Fort Worth, and nobody bothered to tell me.

    Not cool, peeps. Not cool at all.

    All of that tradition, all of those championships, all of those raucous crowds missed because I mistakenly believed this was just BYU, you know the team that has not been to a single BCS bowl from the Mountain West, or really done much of anything except be a sometimes foil to the real juice of the conference, Utah and TCU.

    Maybe, Cougar Nation feared falling behind Boise State, too.

    Or maybe a Touchdown Joseph really has been planned for LaVell Edwards Stadium.

    What I know for sure is the only people who think BYU declaring its football independence is a good idea is BYU, but the Cougars are not the only ones who get dropped in the grease with their delusions of pigskin grandeur.

    ...

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      • ERCougar
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 10978
        #977
        Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
        Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08...#ixzz0x5KVvtW8
        Shocking that a TCU beat-writer is bitter towards BYU. If BYU ain't all that, then tell me, Jennifer, why do you care?
        At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
        -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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          • falafel
            loves to talk on things
            • Mar 2009
            • 38003
            #978
            Another interesting line:

            The guy has to be sick of being in leagues with Notre Dame wanna-bes, always searching for bigger and better, like TCU is not a top-10 team.

            Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08...#ixzz0x5M2bwfD
            I'm pretty sure absolutely NO ONE is claiming TCU is an inferior opponent. Talk about a persecution complex. Sheesh!
            Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

            Dig your own grave, and save!

            "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

            "I know that you are one of the cool and 'edgy' BYU fans" -- Wally

            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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              • ERCougar
                Junior Member
                • Nov 2008
                • 10978
                #979
                Originally posted by falafel View Post
                Another interesting line:



                I'm pretty sure absolutely NO ONE is claiming TCU is an inferior opponent. Talk about a persecution complex. Sheesh!
                Seriously...
                She reminds me of a just-dumped girl trying to console herself. "You're better than him anyway." "You don't need him." "He thinks he's all that--but he's not!" "There's all kinds of other guys who want me! Just wait and see!"
                At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
                -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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                  • LA Ute
                    Receiver of Memory
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 19512
                    #980
                    Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
                    Shocking that a TCU beat-writer is bitter towards BYU.
                    Yeah, she could learn from Dick Harmon.
                    “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                    ― W.H. Auden

                    "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                    -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                      • ERCougar
                        Junior Member
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 10978
                        #981
                        Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                        Yeah, she could learn from Dick Harmon.
                        I'm no Harmon fan, but show me a Harmon column that sounds as whiny and bitter as that one.
                        At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
                        -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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                          • UtahDan
                            *
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 14496
                            #982
                            Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
                            Who pays for a $50 million dollar truck and the broadcast center?

                            Does any other university even try to justify the cost of those two purchases?
                            My understanding is that when they went to withdraw the $3,000,000,000.00 for the mall that about $50M got misplaced and some enterprising person decided it would be better to ask for forgiveness that permission. This is like you or I misplacing the change from lunch.

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                              • Jarid in Cedar
                                CS Institutional Memory
                                • Jun 2009
                                • 13234
                                #983
                                Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
                                I'm no Harmon fan, but show me a Harmon column that sounds as whiny and bitter as that one.
                                When I can access Youtube(filtered here), I will link you Harmon's interview on ESPN when Utah was invited to the PAC-10.


                                You need to go to sleep doctor
                                "The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."

                                "They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression."

                                "I like to bike. I could beat Lance Armstrong, only because he couldn't pass me if he was behind me."

                                -Rick Majerus

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                                  • ERCougar
                                    Junior Member
                                    • Nov 2008
                                    • 10978
                                    #984
                                    Originally posted by Jarid in Cedar View Post
                                    When I can access Youtube(filtered here), I will link you Harmon's interview on ESPN when Utah was invited to the PAC-10.


                                    You need to go to sleep doctor
                                    Kill off one of our ER docs and I won't have to do these.

                                    Ok, I believe you on the Harmon thing. I do recall some bitterness out of there.
                                    At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
                                    -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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                                      • Jarid in Cedar
                                        CS Institutional Memory
                                        • Jun 2009
                                        • 13234
                                        #985
                                        Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
                                        Kill off one of our ER docs and I won't have to do these.
                                        Some people are like cockroaches, no matter how hard you try to eradicate them, their heads just keep popping up.
                                        "The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."

                                        "They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression."

                                        "I like to bike. I could beat Lance Armstrong, only because he couldn't pass me if he was behind me."

                                        -Rick Majerus

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                                          • EuropeanFootballMale
                                            Karate/Friendship Master
                                            • Aug 2010
                                            • 1339
                                            #986
                                            I really, really, really, really hope there is some sort of master plan going on here that we are missing key parts of or BYU just stepped in the outhouse and asked someone to push us over a cliff. What in the world.

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                                              • DapperDan
                                                Whut?
                                                • Mar 2010
                                                • 1132
                                                #987
                                                Originally posted by EuropeanFootballMale View Post
                                                I really, really, really, really hope there is some sort of master plan going on here that we are missing key parts of or BYU just stepped in the outhouse and asked someone to push us over a cliff. What in the world.
                                                Just as long as it isn't a final solution.

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                                                  • Surfah
                                                    Where's Wallace?
                                                    • Nov 2008
                                                    • 33726
                                                    #988
                                                    So maybe scheduling won't be so difficult as an indy.

                                                    BYU and Texas about to announce a home and home after next year's game.

                                                    Client Challenge
                                                    http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/bohls/entries/2010/08/19/texasbyu_footba.html?cxntfid=blogs_bohl_games
                                                    "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                                                    -Turtle
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                                                      • Mormon Red Death
                                                        BYU Delenda Est
                                                        • Nov 2008
                                                        • 8077
                                                        #989
                                                        Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                                                        So maybe scheduling won't be so difficult as an indy.

                                                        BYU and Texas about to announce a home and home after next year's game.

                                                        http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...ogs_bohl_games
                                                        Isnt that a two for one?
                                                        "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

                                                        "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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                                                          • Color Me Badd Fan
                                                            Senior Member
                                                            • Jan 2009
                                                            • 12519
                                                            #990
                                                            Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                                                            So maybe scheduling won't be so difficult as an indy.

                                                            BYU and Texas about to announce a home and home after next year's game.

                                                            http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...ogs_bohl_games
                                                            You beat me Surfah.

                                                            I think this is huge news. Texas is a huge catch.
                                                            Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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