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"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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Originally posted by BigPiney View PostJones fracture. I had one of those, but let it heal without surgery. Took a long time. Hopefully with surgery it is faster for him.
I had a cast for a couple of months, and it got wobbly up top because of the atrophy of my calf muscle. Maybe D1 athletes have access to equipment and methods to keep the muscles in better shape during recovery nowadays."What are you prepared to do?" - Jimmy Malone
"What choice?" - Abe Petrovsky
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https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comment...prising_teams/
There was a list on reddit a few days ago discussing the ten most surprising teams. BYU was #2 on the list. Someone made a comment that most of the teams on the list did not hit the transfer portal very hard, instead opting to hold onto existing recruits and return with a lot of known talent. I thought that was interesting. BYU hit the portal real hard last season and it showed that the team had a hard time gelling. Obviously, the portal is here to stay, and I'm not advocating ignoring it completely, but look at FSU. There has to be a balance, but I tend to like the idea of using the portal to grab a few impact players at key positions, and try to retain our guys year over year (assuming that we have the right guys) over getting a mass influx of new players each season."Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react." - Charles Swindoll
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Originally posted by byufan4ever View Posthttps://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comment...prising_teams/
There was a list on reddit a few days ago discussing the ten most surprising teams. BYU was #2 on the list. Someone made a comment that most of the teams on the list did not hit the transfer portal very hard, instead opting to hold onto existing recruits and return with a lot of known talent. I thought that was interesting. BYU hit the portal real hard last season and it showed that the team had a hard time gelling. Obviously, the portal is here to stay, and I'm not advocating ignoring it completely, but look at FSU. There has to be a balance, but I tend to like the idea of using the portal to grab a few impact players at key positions, and try to retain our guys year over year (assuming that we have the right guys) over getting a mass influx of new players each season.
Couple that assimilation time with the substantial number of injuries last year, and I think it's somewhat understandable that we're seeing the team play so much better thus far this season (as compared to last season)."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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BYU up to 14 in the AP poll (from 17 last week) and 15 in the Coach's poll (from 19)."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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BYU favored by 3 vs Arizona."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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The best thing about being in a conference and the 12-team playoff is that these rankings really are just performative. There will be controversy and a team or two will be unfairly excluded, but for the most part the teams that genuinely deserve to be in the playoffs will make it. This is the first time BYU has ever controlled its own destiny, regardless of what some random sportswriter AP voter thinks.
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Originally posted by YOhio View PostThe best thing about being in a conference and the 12-team playoff is that these rankings really are just performative. There will be controversy and a team or two will be unfairly excluded, but for the most part the teams that genuinely deserve to be in the playoffs will make it. This is the first time BYU has ever controlled its own destiny, regardless of what some random sportswriter AP voter thinks.τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
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Originally posted by YOhio View PostThe best thing about being in a conference and the 12-team playoff is that these rankings really are just performative. There will be controversy and a team or two will be unfairly excluded, but for the most part the teams that genuinely deserve to be in the playoffs will make it. This is the first time BYU has ever controlled its own destiny, regardless of what some random sportswriter AP voter thinks.
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Originally posted by YOhio View Post"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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I looked at the conference championship game tie breakers given the current and likely final logjam at #1 and #2 in the conference standings.
https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...nce-title-game
With each team only playing 9 of the 15 potential opponents, the likelihood that they will need to go deep into the tiebreaker order increases as there may be several teams tied at 1 or 2 that did not all play each other. I have said on the board before that I much prefer the divisional conference model for conferences of greater than 10 teams just to get some regional rivalries with higher stakes games back into the sport. But these mega conferences need divisions just for logistical purposes of choosing conference championship game participants.
The big 10 has 18 teams and will probably add more at some point. Each team plays 9 opponents and doesn't play 8. That almost guarantees there will be ties between teams that didn't play. I'm sure fans will feel satisfied in the end when they end when obscure tiebreaker beyond head to head results or even coin tosses have to be used to determine who gets a shot at the title.
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