Let the football season begin!!! If you guys have noticed I haven’t posted in awhile it’s because I’ve been saving every ounce of creativity and putting it in my smack reserve. Now that the League of Champions (CBAC Fantasy Football) has begun I’m cocked and loaded ready to unleash a verbal beat down on each opponent each and every week of this fantasy season. Come prepared if you like but either way you’ll be going home cryin’, hatein’, and wishin’ there was something more you could do. If I could count a win for every time I demoralize an opponent to a shell of their former selves, I’m pretty sure I’m going undefeated this year. Wins will be an optional bonus. Get ready losers, Scuba’s coming and he’s bringing the smack.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Cougar Quick Hits
In mid-July, former Utah coach, Urban Meyer said that he didn’t think the 2004 version or the 2008 version of his former team could withstand the grind of the SEC. BYU head coach, Bronco Mendenhall retaliated with, "Sometimes the things said in public are different than the things said in private to the rest of the league," he said. "I guess I would like the ability to see. So we will continue to play and schedule and do the best we can within our given realm of influence to show that. But possibly the system will change, and those matchups will happen more frequently, and everyone will know. Right now, we have Wyoming [beating] Tennessee off of last year [in the regular season]."At some point, unless we are in the same league or have access to compete -- or are deemed worthy to have access -- it will be just speculation. But right now, Utah-Alabama, Wyoming-Tennessee -- at least against the SEC [we've been successful].”
Mendenhall told the Deseret Morning News, that scheduling Oklahoma wasn’t necessarily needed to gain a little humble pie. "We're humble enough," he said. "When you don't win the conference, you don't win your bowl game and you don't win the state championship, there isn't a player or coach on the team who is satisfied with that."
In that vein, Max Hall is the 11th QB at BYU since 1974 to come in and the team’s clear-cut starter as a senior. Every single previous quarterback has led BYU to a conference championship, completing 65% of their passes for an average of 3666 yards, 30 plus TD’s, and 13 INT’s. The numbers are looking like a good bet for anther championship in Cougar Country.
Speaking of Max Hall, he is on pace to finish his career second in passing yards, total offense, and passing TD’s to Ty Detmer. He is set to pass John Beck as the MWC leader in passing yards and touchdowns and take his place along side many other BYU greats, like Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Detmer, and Beck. He’s also been added to the Davey O’Brien watchlist this season.
BYU has released its 2009 game day t-shirts, on sale now at the BYU Bookstore for $5. Absent is the year’s slogan which Bronco opted against this season, for obvious reasons.
Good news for fans of any non-BCS team. A tweak to the Rose Bowl will allow greater access for non-BCS teams to participate in the exclusivity of the BCS games.
Its been 11 years since BYU beat a ranked, non-conference opponent. And its not looking any better for this season against Oklahoma. In that same time, the Cougars only have two wins against ranked opponents: 1999 against CSU (#23) and 2006 against TCU (#17). Since 1999, Utah is 9-6 against ranked, non-conference opponents and TCU is 4-3. BYU’s last top ten win also happens to be its only win against a #1 ranked opponent, 1990 versus Miami. Since that game, they are 0-12-1 against top ten ranked opponents with two of those losses against Utah.
Just a few Utah notes: Highly touted defensive back, James Aiono won’t be suiting up for the Crimson and White this season. He has been declared academically ineligible. The Utes also have scheduled a home and away set against 2004 Fiesta Bowl foe, Pittsburg, to begin next season.
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Mendenhall told the Deseret Morning News, that scheduling Oklahoma wasn’t necessarily needed to gain a little humble pie. "We're humble enough," he said. "When you don't win the conference, you don't win your bowl game and you don't win the state championship, there isn't a player or coach on the team who is satisfied with that."
In that vein, Max Hall is the 11th QB at BYU since 1974 to come in and the team’s clear-cut starter as a senior. Every single previous quarterback has led BYU to a conference championship, completing 65% of their passes for an average of 3666 yards, 30 plus TD’s, and 13 INT’s. The numbers are looking like a good bet for anther championship in Cougar Country.
Speaking of Max Hall, he is on pace to finish his career second in passing yards, total offense, and passing TD’s to Ty Detmer. He is set to pass John Beck as the MWC leader in passing yards and touchdowns and take his place along side many other BYU greats, like Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Detmer, and Beck. He’s also been added to the Davey O’Brien watchlist this season.
BYU has released its 2009 game day t-shirts, on sale now at the BYU Bookstore for $5. Absent is the year’s slogan which Bronco opted against this season, for obvious reasons.
Good news for fans of any non-BCS team. A tweak to the Rose Bowl will allow greater access for non-BCS teams to participate in the exclusivity of the BCS games.
Its been 11 years since BYU beat a ranked, non-conference opponent. And its not looking any better for this season against Oklahoma. In that same time, the Cougars only have two wins against ranked opponents: 1999 against CSU (#23) and 2006 against TCU (#17). Since 1999, Utah is 9-6 against ranked, non-conference opponents and TCU is 4-3. BYU’s last top ten win also happens to be its only win against a #1 ranked opponent, 1990 versus Miami. Since that game, they are 0-12-1 against top ten ranked opponents with two of those losses against Utah.
Just a few Utah notes: Highly touted defensive back, James Aiono won’t be suiting up for the Crimson and White this season. He has been declared academically ineligible. The Utes also have scheduled a home and away set against 2004 Fiesta Bowl foe, Pittsburg, to begin next season.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Tuesday Tidbits
Hey, much has been discussed on here over the past few months regarding the makeup of the Jazz and what it should be, what we want it to be, etc. Click here to read Scuba's delicious parable.
To provide a counter point that I feel better marks the desires of the current Jazz fan base, I wanted to repost this article I came across while perusing online sports sites. I posted this link to my Facebook page last night, but for those of you who don’t subscribe to online networking channels, here is the link one more time.
I think anyone who holds a team hostage like Boozer has, flip flops for a $12.7M contract, then goes on the war path telling anyone who will listen that he deserves a raise while only putting in 2/3 the work of anyone else needs to have his head checked. Honestly, who, while making a mere $12.7M this next season, says in regards to the slumping economy, “With the lull that we're having, obviously it's a great [incentive] to not have to pay a state tax.” Do you really need a little more money Carlos? Are you really that worried about your future? Might I advise you to not only hire a PR guy to help you wash your mouth out, but also advise you to seek an investment guy who will help you manage your $12.7M?
To provide a counter point that I feel better marks the desires of the current Jazz fan base, I wanted to repost this article I came across while perusing online sports sites. I posted this link to my Facebook page last night, but for those of you who don’t subscribe to online networking channels, here is the link one more time.
I think anyone who holds a team hostage like Boozer has, flip flops for a $12.7M contract, then goes on the war path telling anyone who will listen that he deserves a raise while only putting in 2/3 the work of anyone else needs to have his head checked. Honestly, who, while making a mere $12.7M this next season, says in regards to the slumping economy, “With the lull that we're having, obviously it's a great [incentive] to not have to pay a state tax.” Do you really need a little more money Carlos? Are you really that worried about your future? Might I advise you to not only hire a PR guy to help you wash your mouth out, but also advise you to seek an investment guy who will help you manage your $12.7M?
Please just go away.
If you care to look, here is Carlos's mere $2M home in SL
And here is his $7.3M home in Miami
Photos courtesy of Celebrity Detective.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Cougar Bites
A few more noteworthy snippets for those who, like me, can’t enough:
The MWC is playing 13, non-conference games against BCS foes this season. All but three of those are away from the comfort of home. Wyoming has the Longhorns coming into town. How they pulled that off, I’ll never know. It doesn’t really matter though because I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would give them a snowball’s chance of winning that game without a blizzard acting as their twelfth defender. Each of the “big three” is playing two non-conference BCS foes so if we (as a conference) can win a majority of these games, we can set up a team for another BCS breakthrough.
Click here to see if your TV provider will be proving you with the most games for watching your Cougars this season. I don’t have a quick link for Utah’s TV schedule, but based on the info from the site, Utah has 5 games on the MTN., 2 on CSTV, 2 on Versus, and 2 on ESPN channels. The BYU game will be simulcast on the MTN and CSTV.
Last year’s debacle (is a 10-3 season considered a debacle?) can be blamed on several things: BYU’s over hype for national prominence, the “Quest” misunderstanding, Max Hall’s ability to find wide open defenders . . .. This year they have refocused their goals and their attention. Sure, it helps that they don’t have the big media spotlight shining on their backs to begin this season, but a win over Oklahoma in week one will put the squarely in the public eye again. A win over reining Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford and the rest of Sooner Nation and the media will be playing BYU’s song for a possible National Championship birth.
BYU QB Max Hall says this year will be about having fun again and playing for the love of football.
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BYU Quick Hits
The college football season is fast approaching; many college camps open in mere weeks. The time has come to grab a hold on your favorite bandwagon and prepare for the ride. I’m hoping that by making this post, I can inspire one of my fellow CBAC bloggers to take up the mantle of “Ute Insider” and keep us all posted on the happenings for the team “on the hill.” Here is just a quick sampling of some coming highlights for the 2009 football season.
As tough a schedule as I can remember in years, including a neutral site game against:
Oklahoma 
Florida State 
Utah State
Nationally televised games for all the big games – all on HD!
Coach Mendenhall has been hitting the recruiting path hard this off-season, landing a whopping 20 as of today, including top-rated QB, Jake Heaps, as well as other four-star recruits, WR Ross Apo, and DE Bronson Kaufusi and Kona Schwenke.
Check out the new 2009 BYU Football Guide here.
I can smell the football in the air. ESPN is starting to talk more and more about it. If you read any of the local sports chat rooms, rivalry talk is rampant and excited. Utah is coming off unquestionably the best season in its program’s history, the MWC’s history, and possibly all of non-BCS history. TCU is picked to win the conference. But both schools have to come through Provo and that always bodes well for the Cougar faithful.
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