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[BamaFanNKY]

@sweetgrass

I hope this wont hurt byu’s reputation as the premiere religously persecuted bible college clogging destination.

They may have lost that title to Liberty University. I know locally they are probably very loud but these Liberty dudes are carrying a big complex.

[Greginslc]

@BamaFanNKY

They may have lost that title to Liberty University. I know locally they are probably very loud but these Liberty dudes are carrying a big complex.

Preaching the end of the world and calling it an education will do that to you.

[Carolina_Cycling_Ute]

@77ute

Remember when Utah hired an NBA assistant, a guy named Boylen. Let’s hope BYU’s new coach works out like he did.

Wouldn’t it be better if the new coach at BYU is just slightly better than Boylen, so that he sticks around longer? You know, the just enough hope that “next season will be better” thing.

[boyaremyarmstired]

@Carolina_Cycling_Ute

…just slightly better than Boylen…

I’d say they should make it a calling for one of the members of the Quorums of the Seventy and consider that good enough - Presiding Coach.

[LAUte]

@mUUser

Never heard of him but as the highest paid assistant in the league interviewing for top jobs, he must be doing something right.

I’m sure he is. Totally apart from my rivalry sentiments, I’ve always thought that being an assistant coach anywhere is a step or two below being a head coach, especially in a D1 college program. Assistants don’t have any experience being “where the buck stops,” such as dealing with alumni and donors, facing the press after a loss, making final decisions involving teenage egos and caprice, and having full responsibility for recruiting issues like those surrounding the transfer portal and NIL. If they’ve been in a college program as an assistant, they at least have some recruiting experience and know what it’s like to be sitting in a living room with parents and recruits. Coaches coming from the pros have no experience with any of these things. So if you’re bringing somebody into a D1 program, it should be someone who has succeeded as a head coach in a college program at a lower level or in another D1 program. Just my opinion. We’ll see how he does.

[UteBrave]

If Ryan Smith is committed to putting cash into byu’s NIL funds then I’m sure getting talent won’t be a problem.

They seem to be doing the honor code differently for athletes. I don’t remember the last time the HC office got a player kicked off a team down there. I’m sure the kids are still doing what kids do, so maybe athletes get their issues swept under the rug, like when LaVell was coaching.

[Uteanooga]

Agree about the NIL. I don’t see any way someone would pony up 4.2m/yr for a coach and not even consider whether to get good players.

[SeattleUte]

@UTEopia

Everything you said is equally true of Alex Jensen and Johnie Bryant, but many Utah fans viewed them like they would immediately turn the Utes around. That guy, like both Jensen and Bryant, is likely a really good coach. There are some inherent advantages at BYU with LDS kids, but many disadvantages with other populations. Pope’s approach to recruiting and the portal was different then any prior BYU coach and it served him well. Who knows if this guy can do it. Hell, we are 3 years in and I don’t know if Smith can do it. If he doesn’t show some chops in the portal this year, the Utes will be introducing a new HC next March.

This Young guy may be the greatest, most home run hire ever. But there’s no way you or I or anyone else can know AT ALL whether he’s a good or bad hire. He has no head coaching experience. No head coaching experience at DI college level, which is its own animal.

This is equally true for Alex Jensen and Johnnie Bryant, and why I would not want Utah to hire either if Craig Smith were replaced.

The overwhelming majority of head coaches don’t succeed to fans’ (I would say uninformed) expectations.

There are always risks associated with hiring head coaches. But time and time again we see that the best way to mitigate that risk is to hire a head coach who has been successful as a head coach with another program. See Utah State’s proven sound hiring methodology. The problem is that this is often next to impossible to do.

As for BYU supposed recruiting advantages LDS kids, I bet any coach would trade those for inherent disadvantages at BYU because of Utah’s relatively low population and demography, and the Honor Code.

[Greginslc]

They found a coach, and last season’s undergrads seem to be jumping ship.

Not surprising in this new professional era of college sports.

[boyaremyarmstired]

from byucougars.com article

On being clean shaven for the first time in a while

“We had practice this morning in Phoenix as we’re getting ready for the playoffs. I walked in there, and all the guys were kind of looking at me, and we had a good laugh about it. Funny enough, my wife’s been wanting me to shave for like 13 years, so the fact that here it is, she’s happy about that.”

[UteBrave]

Doesn’t the honor code office give out beard cards? If he plays his cards right, and gets permission from his bishop, I’ll bet they might issue him a beard card.

[Greginslc]

Why is it when I hear someone say the word “beard” I start snorting like Beavis and Butthead?

[sweetgrass]

There’s that good taco place in Cottonwood Heights - “Lone Star” , they used to have an old car out front as a decoration that had hundreds of stickers on it. One of the bumper stickers read, “BYU not just for lesbians anymore.” Anyone remember that? It was an odd bumper sticker, but always made me laugh.

[mUUser]

@boyaremyarmstired

my wife’s been wanting me to shave for like 13 years, so the fact that here it is, she’s happy about that

Will shave for Holmoe but not his wife? That’s a red flag.

[LAUte]

@UteBrave

If he plays his cards right, and gets permission from his bishop, I’ll bet they might issue him a beard card.

All he needs is a letter from a physician saying he has a skin condition.

[Greginslc]

“Beard Card”…hehehehehehe😂

[IrvingWashington]

@LAUte

All he needs is a letter from a physician saying he has a skin condition.

I guess BYU is more tolerant than the Yankees.

[LAUte]

@IrvingWashington

I guess BYU is more tolerant than the Yankees.

That figures!

[UteBrave]

byu is the Steinbrenner of ‘universities’.

[330ute]

@Greginslc

Why is it when I hear someone say the word “beard” I start snorting like Beavis and Butthead?