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This is great that the free game is against those wretched Utah Utes on Saturday at the Marriot Center. Should be a good game as long as a poor looking Utah squad doesn’t beat BYU when they’re being broadcast for free.

This would be cool for all the Mountain West Conference games since it is free from January 3-8. Should give us a good preview of most of the teams in the conference.

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Disgusting! Ugly! Sinful! Dreaded! Embarrasing!…

That’s all I can really say about the game against Air Force. I don’t think I saw much of anything that I liked. Brock Reichner hit some big shots to keep us almost in it at the beginning, but our defense didn’t stop anything. Our big men just handed them the ball. We didn’t have a chance after we got down.

What a way to start the MWC. Let’s hope BYU comes back ready to avenge the ugly play last night when they meet Utah. The other option is they get down on themselves and Utah stomps us too. That would pretty much leave us without much basketball season to watch.

I do want to give Air Force basketball a little bit of credit. They looked good. They were hitting all sorts of great shots, getting open looks and making BYU just look miserable. I really feel bad for whoever has to meet Air Force Academy in the NCAA tournament. Yes, I’m making the prediction now that Air Force will be in the tournament. Also, Hood looked stellar. He’s really developed into a Great player.

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My husband is watching the BYU vs Air Force game. It isn’t going well. Or at least it isn’t going well for him. He will be depressed afterwards. I don’t mind so much. When he gets depressed that means we get to have ice cream. It is the only thing that brings his spirits back up.

I wonder if I should invest in chocolate ice cream stock now. Go Cougars, Keep on losing. I love ice cream.

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I wanted to post that BYU is going to have a good time against Air Force and should be a close game within 10. Unfortunately that’s something that doesn’t need to be said. Has air force ever beaten anyone by more than 10? The way they run up the shot clock you only get so many chances to score and large leads are rare no?

I will say that Air Force has scheduled well with some big names and some no names. Luckily they beat many of the big names. Plus Air Force use to have trouble with the no name teams too. Nice to see that embarassment is not as much of a worry for the Mountain West Conference anymore. Unfortunately, Air Force starting to beat bigger name teams is sad news for BYU. Let’s hope Trent can have a big game like I remember Hafa having against Air Force a couple years back.

I was watching the National Championship game tonight and that was quite exciting. I still don’t think it was quite as good as the USC vs. Notre Dame game earlier in the season. However, it was very exciting to watch with the high powered offense and incredible playmakers. Really that isn’t much different from BYU right? Ok, so maybe they know how to tackle. Their offensive lines know how to protect a quarterback. Their quarterbacks don’t through errant passes. Their running backs run through these things I would rather call hallways than holes. Their receivers are huge and know how to get open. Their quarterbacks know how to move. Well, maybe BYU is different.

One thing that BYU can say compared to Texas. The place kicking is about on par.

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There has been a lot of discussion about Bronco Mendenhall being his own defensive coordinator. I must admit that I think that it might be a good idea if he can find someone in his mold. However, I’m really not sure that’s going to be possible this year. Possibly a couple years down the road he could build that kind of person. I still thought he should until tonight when I had an epiphany during the National Championship game with USC and Texas. USC won how many games in a row with a head coach as the defensive coordinator? Enough said! I guess it depends on the defense and more importantly how Bronco handles his defensive coordinator role. I don’t know how Pete Carroll is doing it, but whatever he’s doing to manage the 2 roles Bronco should find out and implement it himself.

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How did BYU end up with 2 terrible games to start off the Conference schedule? I know that they didn’t know how good Air Force would be when they set the schedule, but this is going to be a brutal week for BYU(unless they win). As much as I’d like for BYU to win both of these games I think it’s going to be pretty unlikely. Winning both would leave BYU in the driver’s seat. Losing both would be pretty detrimental to the season. I expect us to go 1-1 and be stuck still not knowing where BYU is going to end. At least in basketball there’s almost no way we won’t make it to the Mountain West Conference tournament and that leaves us a chance to go to the NCAA tournament. Ok, that’s a long shot, but we can still continue hoping.

More importantly I hope if we go 1-1 we beat Utah. There’s nothing worse than losing to Utah.

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Here’s a few questions and comments about my visit to the Tulsa game in the Marriot Center on Friday.

When I was watching warm up it seemed like all the big men were shooting layups from the left side with their right hand. That seemed a bit odd to me. It seems like everyone would teach that you shoot with the left hand on the left side. In fact, I saw Keena Young do it and I wondered why he couldn’t use his left and then I saw Dawes do it to. Anyone have some insight as to why they would do it? Is it taught to do that when you are so tall?

The pictures on the big screen are horrible. When the players were getting introduced their pictures were just messed up. Ok, so Cummard looks a little odd in person, but even Coach Rose was looking like the picture was stretched. Can’t they figure out how to put some quality pictures up? If they need some help I’d be happy to use GIMP and do some photoshop work.

Who started the tradition that one guy that doesn’t start and often doesn’t get to play(although Keena Young was there for BYU) is at the end of the line when the starting line up is called out. They come out and bump chests, give a gang sign or some sort of high five salute. How does someone get elected for that job? At least Tulsa looked ok because they didn’t have any cheerleaders and so that last guy looked like he was part of the team. Keena just looked like he was out there by himself. While I’ve seen it a lot, I’m not sure why people do it. It can’t help them get that pumped up can it? Leave that for the big circle cheer after the starting line up is called.

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