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Originally posted by cougjunkie View PostTrevor Reilly was on the radio yesterday, I didn't listen much but I heard him say one of his teammates who has his degree works at Walmart as a stocker. That made me laugh. He also said BYU does a better job of preparing people for life after football and that when you are at Utah, all they care about is football first, and don't teach life skills.
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Originally posted by Brian View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]6712[/ATTACH]
Keep on cougin', fellers."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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BYU does a nice job ensuring that all who take advantage of an education subsidized by the tithes of faithful Latter-day Saints are prepared to immediately begin paying this same blessing forward. This approach toward excellence in all endeavors is among the many things that makes our fine institution so unique and wonderful. Athletic departments and university leaders who resent accountability from those tasked with ensuring stewardship of the tax and tuition dollars are the norm and not the exception. This is a regrettable turn in college athletics, IMO. But I'm sure some here disagree and they can S a D.
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Originally posted by YOhio View PostBYU does a nice job ensuring that all who take advantage of an education subsidized by the tithes of faithful Latter-day Saints are prepared to immediately begin paying this same blessing forward. This approach toward excellence in all endeavors is among the many things that makes our fine institution so unique and wonderful. Athletic departments and university leaders who resent accountability from those tasked with ensuring stewardship of the tax and tuition dollars are the norm and not the exception. This is a regrettable turn in college athletics, IMO. But I'm sure some here disagree and they can S a D.*Banned*
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Originally posted by cougjunkie View PostWrong again. Our school is better at teaching football players life skills. Considering 99% of the guys on the tea won't have NFL careers, I would imagine teaching life skills is a big deal. As a fan, sure who cares. All you want are wins. But if you were the parent of a recruit, that is a big deal.
Sadly, I think cougjunkie is right.
There are a lot of crappy sociology & comm students out there who are just trying to stay eligible at many schools (including the FCS one that I am most familiar with).
I'm an outsider, but I have the impression that Bronco had good classroom priorities (and I'm sure it was part of the hiring process at a good academic school like UVA).
I don't know about Kalani & the All-Star Team, but IMO Ed Lamb will place a heavy emphasis on getting a good education (and not just a degree).
I do disagree, though, with the assumption that a person has to work within his/her field or major in order to be considered a success.
None of us wants to be a stocker at Wal-mart, but there are plenty of successful folks with Liberal Arts degrees in all kinds of lines of work (usually not FB players, though)."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostWhenever someone uses that phrase I instinctively think of football goal posts, not soccer. It doesn't surprise me that a fan of a gymnastics school would think of soccer.
Ya ya insert joke about my googling history.I intend to live forever.
So far, so good.
--Steven Wright
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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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Originally posted by myboynoah View Post2. Utah: This is truly a strange one. Utah is a bigger school than BYU, a secular institution, a member of the Power 5 conference and has had much more recent success (having won the past five meetings). Yet, Utes fans have such a vitriolic hate for all things BYU that borders on irrational.
Maybe it's the Notre Dame syndrome played out in a single state. BYU holds itself to a "higher standard" and that's probably why Utah's fans can't stand it."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by myboynoah View Post"Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism" - Joseph Smith Jr.
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=38632951&nid...tic-department
In an hour-long interview during my show with David James on 97.5-FM and 1280-AM The Zone, Republican state Rep. Dan McCay rejected any notion of revenge or a witch hunt against Utah. He noted a bipartisan committee voted to approve the audit.
"All of our state schools are doing a fantastic job of working together with their athletic departments, they're up there as a total package saying this is what we're doing, except for one," McCay said. "This audit is focused on trying to figure out why that one university — the athletics and the academics of the institution — are not consistent. They don't share the same vision.""Once you're a Power 5, things change for you and now you're famous, you're a rock star and as a result everybody needs to sup at your table and wait for the crumbs to fall from it," he said. "That just isn't how Utah athletics has been run in this state, and candidly it isn't part of our culture. Maybe our culture is learning as well from what Power 5 culture is like, and we're going to have to make some adjustments potentially. But if I would look at specifically antics, you can't have on one hand have the academic institution asking for $340-plus million in public subsidy and on the other hand have the athletic department say the Legislature really doesn't matter. You can't have those two things, it's not consistent. These are messages added up consistently from the athletic director and coach Krystkowiak."*Banned*
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