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  • If we got one thing from the VP debate last night it was this great meme picture...


    "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 Post
      Jones 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 hadn’t heard of that until now, so I looked it up, and that’s exactly where my break was on the fifth metatarsal of my left foot years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what I had as well.

      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 Post
          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.
          I'm all for acquiring talent, but the talent must also assimilate, so that everyone understands and properly performs his own role, which often takes time.

          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.'"
          - Goatnapper'96

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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.'"
            - Goatnapper'96

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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.'"
              - Goatnapper'96

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              • Originally posted by Pelado View Post
                BYU favored by 3 vs Arizona.
                Arizona must really be ranked high.

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                • Originally posted by Pelado View Post
                  BYU favored by 3 vs Arizona.
                  Great! That means we win by at least 14.

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                  • Originally posted by Pelado View Post
                    BYU up to 14 in the AP poll (from 17 last week) and 15 in the Coach's poll (from 19).
                    Super annoying that they just HAD to keep 5 SEC teams in the top 10.

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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 Post
                        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.
                        Agreed 100%. I've been surprised by how much less I am interested in the rankings this year, now that there is something more worthwhile to play for beyond winning the MWC.
                        τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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                        • Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                          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.
                          Yes. And if BYU can win the conference, that will give them a first round bye. Still a lot of a football to be played. I'm looking forward to it.

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                            • Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                              Cool.
                              "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.'"
                              - Goatnapper'96

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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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