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I’m glad that BYU women’s volleyball has returned to the post season. I was always glad to read throughout the season that they were winning again. Let’s just hope that don’t do like men’s basketball and women’s soccer and play horribly in the tourney.

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I’m still agast by the fact that someone came back from a mission and actually is going on to help BYU football (see article). Enough Ben Olsen for BYU. It’s about time that BYU tap the mission reservoir. If he returns anything like Dallas Reynolds then we’ll be happy. Unfortunately, I don’t see much help for a couple years.

By the way, is Coach Reynolds having any more kids? If he’s not what is BYU going to do for linemen?

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I saw an article put out by BYU’s very own Daily Universe. It’s title was BYU baseball signs recruits

That’s insightful! I guess BYU signing recruits for baseball is a step in the right direction.

I found an ad by BYU athletics about the “festivities” that are being held for the bowl game in Vegas.

Take a look at the link and tell me what could be of any worth on that list. The only one I am remotely interested in is the Buffet bowl where you get to see some 300 pounders go at it. Even better would be to have the cheerleaders participate. On second thought, that’s a horrible idea. Watching BYU cheerleaders that probably have some eating disorder fake like they are enjoying stuffing their faces. I’m not sure if there would be more giggles or eating if they participated. No offense to cheerleaders, but do you really do anything at football games? I guess I don’t have a problem with you there since you’re nice to look at, but don’t act like you help the football team win.

Either way you’d think BYU could put together something worth attending for the bowl game. I expect to get some alumni letter inviting me to participate too. Wonder if they’ve figured something good out.

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BYU had a great game in almost every aspect against SUU. The one aspect that wasn’t great was in free throws where they made 13 of 22. Cougar fans use to love to the articles about how BYU was tops in the nation in free throw shooting. Give props to Steve Cleveland for establishing that.

While many people may be satisfied to be tops in the nation in free throw shooting I’d rather be 35th in the nation, but winning games. Forget free throws if we’re losing games.

I guess now we’ll just have to watch and see if making free throws translates into winning games.

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Jason Franchuk in his article for the Daily Herald wrote “And the Cougars are winning” after BYU defeated SUU on saturday night.

Talk about an exageration if there ever was one. Ok, grammatically(if that’s a word) you can say that BYU is winning because they have won 2 games this season, but if BYU loses the next 5 games then those 2 games(one against a much lesser opponent) will have no impact and won’t be anything close to BYU winning.

I hope that it is true that BYU has returned to the winning days of a few seasons ago and returns to the NCAA tournament. Let’s just not count on Weapons of Mass desctruction before they are found.

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Tonight BYU basketball finally achieved something they didn’t do all of last year. Have a winning record. Too bad it really doesn’t matter, because they did it against an injury riddled SUU team. When all the reporters are more interested in writing about the reunion between JC recruits Broadus and Malaman and past teamates now playing for SUU you know there isn’t much going to happen in this game.

Actually it reminds me of a BYU game that I went to with a good friend when I was at BYU. We showed up just as the game started missing all the hooplah. We sat up near the top where we mostly just flirted the entire time. She commented on how hot Travis Hansen was and how great a player he was. Maybe it was jealousy at the time, because I didn’t see anything special. The next year he ended up being somewhat of a star and playing quite well. Either way, the game we were at was a blowout and we left sometime in the second half, because we already knew who was going to win.

Tonight was the same against SUU. The fact is, BYU should have been playing the women’s volleyball game on the big screen at the game. At least that would have been a competition for something.

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I was reading the following recruiting article:
McCoy Looks Forward to Provo Visit

I think it is excellent that BYU is scouting some speed at cornerback. It is definitely needed. The problem I have reading all of these scouting reports is how do you know if the guy can REALLY play? I don’t think I’ve read one scouting report that said this guy sucks and I’m not sure he can really excel at the next level. If they threw a few of those in there then maybe I could start believing the guy can play.

I guess the real problem is that everyone(or nearly everyone) that gets a scholarship to a Div 1 program is going to have a great resume. After that I think it’s just a crap shoot whether the guy will be good or not. Correct me if I’m wrong.

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At first glance I thought that playing SUU was a no benefit game for BYU. If we lose then it will go on to damage any hope of good placement in the NCAA season. If we win then we really gain little out of it.

On second thought I found out that we are 8-0 all-time against them so the losing side isn’t really an issue. I guess you can also give us a small advantage in the win department just because of the volume of wins. Also, there is something to say about giving the team an easy win to learn to gel more and more. Let’s just hope BYU doesn’t get too laxidazical(spelling?) in the win that they lose the game after.

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Every year there are a certain set of practices that are open to the public to enjoy. I think this is a fabulous thing for BYU fans to enjoy seeing the players and to see how a college practice gets started. Unfortunately, the seats aren’t very good for these practices and often you can’t see from where you are anyway. Thus my idea.

The LDS Church can stream conference over the internet. How about BYU athletics stream the open practices so that the rest of us around the world(since BYU is an international school) can enjoy these practices from soft seats and no matter where we’re found in the world. With so many members of the church in positions of power in the IT industry you’d think someone could foot the bill for this project. Or why doesn’t the Center of E-business in the Marriott School of Business do it as a project to benefit alumni.

Let me know and I’ll participate in setting it up and even share some of my bandwidth. Of course I’d have a direct link to it on my site also.