*** BYU Pregame Thread ***
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A. Colorado’s injury list was several longer than ours. 20-16, when I go back to look.
B. Two corners getting hurt is “the entire position group”? Cummings-Coleman is a S.
As someone pointed out two weeks ago, they can just take a 5-yard penalty and force you to rekick. So that could backfire on you.
Agree, Orange needs to sit until he is fully healthy if that is even possible this season. Total mistake to play him the last two games, he's gone from the best player to a liability.
It’s Homecoming - wear your ISU gear
(no officially-coordinated color for this game)
You do realize that S&C approaches can impact injuries vs strength vs flexibility, right? Ben Bruns brought this up directly. Why is it taboo to discuss?
Most of the starters are game related besides Cooper. Who knows what lingering injury a guy has that gets worse in the game. Kyle , Dom etc but they played and had to be pulled.
It has to be significantly more difficult to get away from your wife when you have 5 or 6 of them too
And placekicker. I don't ever remember a 4th string, emergency kicker being used. Maybe one being used as a KO specialist because he has a cannon for a leg but isn't accurate, but never getting that deep because of injuries.
So I take it they are thinking a PAT miss will be the difference in this game because with ISU's kicker issues I doubt ISU kicks two field goals.
People that didn't watch the Holy War missed out
Take this guy's stat manipulation with a grain of salt. He's a Ute fan that thinks they're too good for the Big 12 so seems his bent is to try to paint the Big 12 in a bad light.
For example, viewership for games on ESPN+ isn't released. Instead of removing those games from the data since there is none, he assumes 0 people watch those games and includes it in the average for that team and, thus, for whole conference.
Also here are examples of him pining for a Big 10 invite.
This year has been a bit of an anomaly for BYU in how little we’ve been banged up. Sounds like it’s gone in the opposite direction for your guys, which sucks.
I will say, I don’t think the mission age thing has much if any bearing on our guys having less injuries. Usually our post-mission guys have just as many if not more injuries than the other players. It’s pretty hard for guys who have served missions to get back in shape after taking a 2 year break from the game.
Wish your guys weren’t going through so much injury junk. You’ve got a solid team and we wish we could play you with both of the teams at their best.
Lots of betting predictors have been on ISU this week. I’ve been pretty pessimistic about this weekend, so hopefully they know more than me and we can live up to that -2.5 line. I was just surprised to hear that so many are picking us to cover that line from the national pundits.
I wouldn’t say that. Rather, I think losing to a bad CU team made many people (again) question if ISU has truly taken a ‘contender’ step up with the program. Certainly there are more wins than past eras and yet there’s continual head scratchers that fundamentally solid, well-coached teams don’t make. Can’t blame every loss on refs and injuries.
I'm not saying they're at that level or that refs and injuries are to blame. I think people get caught up in the record vs. what the make up of the team actually is. For talent, it's solid, but...who are the NFL guys?
5-0 sounds and looks great but it wasn't like ISU was a force of nature throughout.
Seasons ebb and flow and sometimes things don't go well even if for a couple of weeks.
