2012 BYU Football Season

[Surfah]

Ignorant hyperbole at its worst.

Lol. Beat me to it.

[Indy Coug]

Ignorant hyperbole at its worst.

If our motley assortment of sub-par running backs could average its highest ypc for BYU since 2005, just imagine what BYU could have done if they had a real RB playing for them.

[Surfah]

If our motley assortment of sub-par running backs could average its highest ypc for BYU since 2005, just imagine what BYU could have done if they had a real RB playing for them.

Considering Staley is the only guy to rush for over 1500 yards I am still going to call your statement hyperbole.

[Indy Coug]

Considering Staley is the only guy to rush for over 1500 yards I am still going to call your statement hyperbole.

1500/13 = 115 yards per game

Given that BYU had jack shit at QB the last two years and was running 40 times a game, Unga would have been getting 25+ carries a game and even at the 4.2 yards per carry the lesser RBs were averaging (Harvey's career ypc was just under 5.0), Harvey would have hit that mark.

[Pelado]

1500/13 = 115 yards per game

Given that BYU had jack shit at QB the last two years and was running 40 times a game, Unga would have been getting 25+ carries a game and even at the 4.2 yards per carry the lesser RBs were averaging (Harvey's career ypc was just under 5.0), Harvey would have hit that mark.

Barring injury.

[Surfah]

1500/13 = 115 yards per game

Given that BYU had jack shit at QB the last two years and was running 40 times a game, Unga would have been getting 25+ carries a game and even at the 4.2 yards per carry the lesser RBs were averaging (Harvey's career ypc was just under 5.0), Harvey would have hit that mark.

Maybe. I suspect though if we had a legit running attack we would have seen better QB play.

Also, I doubt that he gets 25 carries a game. I bet he would have averaged around 100 yards a game. 5 ypc and 25 carries outer game.

[woot]

This conversation has turned into a "who would you do?" scenario.

Which produces more yards: Trent Richardson behind BYU's OL or JJ DiLuigi behind Wisconsin's OL? Make sure you stridently assert statistics for each hypothetical scenario while acting all indignant about it. Ready, go.

[Indy Coug]

BYU finishes ranked 25th in USA Today poll. Five out of six seasons BYU has been ranked in a final poll.

[Hsaru]

BYU officially had a much better season than Utah! We are ranked 25th! Suck it Ute fans!!@@@@!111!!!!@111

[il Padrino Ute]

BYU officially had a much better season than Utah! We are ranked 25th! Suck it Ute fans!!@@@@!111!!!!@111

I'll stick with the tried and true "scoreboard".

[Surfah]

BYU finishes ranked 25th in USA Today poll. Five out of six seasons BYU has been ranked in a final poll.

And unranked in the AP. I have yet to see the breakdown of the coaches' poll but I bet we snuck into the top 25 because of Bronco. In the last poll before the bowl games he had BYU ranked the highest of all 59 coaches at #22. I would be interested to see what he ranked BYU in comparison with the other coaches. Of note in the last poll, only a handful of coaches had BYU ranked at all. Gary Anderson and Kyle Whittingham did not rank BYU at all.

[jay santos]

This conversation has turned into a "who would you do?" scenario.

Which produces more yards: Trent Richardson behind BYU's OL or JJ DiLuigi behind Wisconsin's OL? Make sure you stridently assert statistics for each hypothetical scenario while acting all indignant about it. Ready, go.

Interesting question. I vote Richardson with our line. My opinion is that a great RB is more valuable than a great OL.

I'm not trying to defend the OL here, but I think the running game the last couple years was about as good as it could be, given the RB and QB talent (QB also being important to the running game as a great passing game will keep the defense from stacking the box).

One of the most biggest priorities of the program should be getting in some RB talent. It's a bad sign when we hype guys like Diluigi and Quezada who were rated something like #60 in their position coming out of high school.

[TripletDaddy]

And unranked in the AP. I have yet to see the breakdown of the coaches' poll but I bet we snuck into the top 25 because of Bronco. In the last poll before the bowl games he had BYU ranked the highest of all 59 coaches at #22. I would be interested to see what he ranked BYU in comparison with the other coaches. Of note in the last poll, only a handful of coaches had BYU ranked at all. Gary Anderson and Kyle Whittingham did not rank BYU at all.

Awesome. I guess now we can all sit back and ride this final ranking into ranked preseason glory next summer. The AP isn't impressed at all and the coaches are barely impressed to vote BYU into the dead last spot....but this team is coming back next year baby.

[jay santos]

And unranked in the AP. I have yet to see the breakdown of the coaches' poll but I bet we snuck into the top 25 because of Bronco. In the last poll before the bowl games he had BYU ranked the highest of all 59 coaches at #22. I would be interested to see what he ranked BYU in comparison with the other coaches. Of note in the last poll, only a handful of coaches had BYU ranked at all. Gary Anderson and Kyle Whittingham did not rank BYU at all.

#31 here http://masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm which is IMHO the most accurate ranking system.

Not a bad season at all. It would rate up there with other seasons where the tone was much more positive. The poor schedule, poor display in big games, conference affiliation issues, and the Heaps issue (for the Heaps luvrs) made it seem a lot worse than it was.

[Surfah]

#31 here http://masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm which is IMHO the most accurate ranking system.

Not a bad season at all. It would rate up there with other seasons where the tone was much more positive. The poor schedule, poor display in big games, conference affiliation issues, and the Heaps issue (for the Heaps luvrs) made it seem a lot worse than it was.

Perception is reality they say.