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>really??
>
>c'mon guys, i know 99% of
>you are from utah, but
>you cant honestly think BYU
>could have won that game,
>or even made it a
>game , if Bradford hadn't
>been hurt, can you??
>
>
>and for all the UTE whinners,
>try putting more than 1
>or 2 teams on your
>schedule that anybody in the
>USA has even heard of.
>then when you go undeafeated
>it might be something to
>brag about. last year
>if you would have been
>in the pac -10
>or the SEC, there is
>no way you could have
>made it through the whole
>conference without getting beat............
YEAH REALLY!!
OK Killerbee since you have put your boot in your own mouth, let's analyze what you are saying. And let me preface this by saying that yes that while I am from Utah and do routinely cheer for both BYU and Utah, I live in Texas, attend the University of Texas at Austin and have taught and know many of the former and current Longhorn football players - so for now, that is where my loyalty lies. However aside from that, I am a student of the game and don't listen to the bullcrap hype that ESPN and ABC put out against the "small conferences". So what I am saying is based on logic and sound understanding of college football, so please hear me out.
First of all - yes - I think BYU would have won even if Bradford hadn't got hurt. And they WERE making it a game! (See - I don't think you were actually watching the game) It was 10-7 when he went down!! Give me a freaking break. The BYU defense stood up ALL DAY LONG, and the offense was moving the ball when they needed to, and guess what - QB's getting hurt is part of the game, you can't factor that out of the outcome. If a major college program like OU can't protect their QB any better than that and score more than 3 points in the second half with their #2 QB then they have no business being ranked #3. But don't worry - OU will look really good against Idaho State next weekend - yeah talk about tough non-conference schedule.
And as far as last year's schedule for Utah - you don't have a clue. They beat four ranked teams from some of the biggest conferences - Michigan (BIG 10), TCU (MWC), BYU (MWC), and Alabama (SEC) and an unranked Oregon State (PAC-10) who had previously beaten the CREAM of the PAC-10 crop, ABC and ESPN's California darlings USC - and looked REALLY REALLY good doing it!! That part of their schedule alone is just as hectic as any PAC-10 or SEC schedule from last year. So yeah, put them in the PAC-10 (please please please put them in the PAC-10 last year - I can't believe you are even trying to make this argument!) or even the SEC last year and I think you get the same result. But, you can't go back and do that, you can only play the schedule you have and they did, and they ran the table.
As of right now, the Big Conference/Little Conference argument is just about as irrelevant as it is ever going to get. So please, (REALLY) next time you feel like making an argument like that, go find a quarter and buy yourself a clue before doing so. ;-)
UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)