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The BYUTV 2006 BYU Football Broadcast schedule just recently announced the following:

Due to a change in broadcast rights, BYU Television will be unable to bring you highlights from the Tulsa vs. BYU football game played September 9th. Please enjoy this encore presentation of the BYU vs. SMU 1980 Holiday Bowl

This is crazy. I went all day avoiding any sort of scores or reports of BYU so that I could enjoy the rebroadcast. Now we’re screwed out of that. I can’t believe that BYU TV didn’t know until hours before the game was suppose to air that they didn’t have rights to the game.

Some theories are going around that it means that the MWC finally signed a deal with the satellite providers, but that is a joke to me. Why would a satellite provider care about BYUTV rebroadcasting a game that they didn’t show on their system and won’t in the future.

This is incredibly frustrating. Of course I’ve already seen the score now. I’m glad BYU won, but I want to see them play. I’m still looking for a download or streamed version of the game. If anyone who taped it can get it to me I would really appreciate it.

Post your comments and I’ll send them on to BYU Athletics, the Mountain West Conference, the mtn., BYUTV and whoever else I can find to send it to.

UPDATE: KBYU covered it and we’re working on getting an upload from someone who recorded it. Here are some highlights of the game in the meantime. Tonga just ran over someone to get in the end zone. That was nice.

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UPDATE: New Mexico vs. BYU 2007 Streaming Options

BYU Television is doing all of us outside of Utah a big favor by replaying the BYU game on BYU TV. The good part is that BYUTV can be streamed on the internet so I don’t even need to get BYU TV on my cable or satellite provider. I can get it all right on my computer. I’ve used the streaming for other special church events at the conference center and I’ve been very pleased with the streaming. They even added a second option for those Mac and linux users that want to stream the video, but don’t have internet explorer(for obvious reasons).

For some reason BYU Athletics only wrote a link to the BYUTV streaming page. First, BYU Athletics needs to learn how to make what’s called a hyperlink so that I don’t have to cut and paste the link from their site. Second, BYU Athletics should have posted a link to the 2006 BYUTV Football Broadcast schedule. They could have even posted a link to the BYUTV Sports Broadcasting schedule or the BYUTV Program Guide. Thankfully, I’ve taken care of that for you.

I know that seeing a replay of the BYU and Tulsa football game tonight at 9pm MT isn’t as good as seeing the game live, but it will have to do for now while the Mountain West Conference figures out how to get the mtn. distributed in more places. From my perspective the FREE BYUTV live stream is much better than paying a cable provider for the mtn. anyway.

Today, BYU Sports’ marketing department is ready to debut the “Touchdown Towels” in BYU’s first home game at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Here’s a little history from a Daily Herald article on how the Touchdown Towels came about:

It all started this summer when Brian Thomas, a 24-year-old BYU student who goes by the name “Blue Crew” on the Daily Herald’s CougarBlue Web site, saw pictures of fans of Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers waving their “Terrible Towels.”

“I thought we could do something like that at LaVell Edwards Stadium,” Thomas said. “Something to set it apart and help improve our home record over the past few years. I threw the idea out to some guys online at CougarBlue.com on the message boards. I came back a few hours later and had hundreds of responses. People were willing to help whatever way they could.”

The idea was eventually pitched to the BYU marketing department. Thomas and his cohorts managed to raise more than $1,200 in donations to get the project started.

“We started to hear a little about this group on the CougarBlue Web site, and then it started going to other BYU sites,” said BYU Marketing Coordinator Bill Hoops. “We began working with Cougar United, which is our student fan club, and they threw in some of their own money. The BYU Bookstore also got on board and ate some of the cost so we could sell them at the stadium.”

I think the idea is decent. It’s something that people could really get into. I could see people starting to make their own towel and bringing those. I just wonder how well you can see the game with the towels waving. Maybe next year they should make it part of season tickets so that all of the season ticket holders will have a towel. That covers a good portion of the stadium and paying $1 extra for a season ticket seems reasonable.

I must still make the observation that the tortilla’s being thrown when we were thinking Fiesta Bowl are still the most fun. I loved going to the BYU games and seeing the tortillas getting thrown everywhere.

At his weekly news conference, Tulsa coach Steve Kragthorpe spoke of his time growing up in Provo. For 10 years, ending in 1979, Kragthorpe’s father, Dave, was BYU’s offensive line coach.
He looks forward to reconnecting with former coach LaVell Edwards and others associated with the football program.
“Just growing up around Coach Edwards . . . a lot of the things we do here programmatically is from what LaVell did at BYU. I learned a lot from him. You guys heard me tell the joke before, I wonder where my dad went wrong because he raised a coach and a sportswriter and LaVell raised an author, a doctor and a lawyer. It’ll be good to see Coach Edwards. It’ll be fun to see he and [wife] Patti and a lot of the people that played at BYU while my dad was there.”

Here’s a list of other Articles written about Steve Kragthorpe and his relationship with BYU.
http://www.sltrib.com/byucougars/ci_4298865
http://www.tulsaworld.com/SportsStory.asp?ID=060907_Sp_B1_Frien48202
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060906/SPORTS030104/609060357/1097/SPORTS
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/192597/3/