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Cougar Sportsline, Vol.29, Issue 9
by hb 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

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Cougar Sportsline, Vol. 29, Issue 9
by hb 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

HB Arnett's COUGAR SPORTSLINE 801 372 0819 hbarnett(a)fiber.net and hbarnett@xmission <mailto:hbarnett@xmission.com> .com PO Box 50424 Provo, Utah 84605 Vol. 29, Issue 9 - September 29, 2008 Click <http://www.cougarstreet.com/products/index.php?type-450&PCID=450:0:0:0:0> Here To Order Or Renew Your Subscriptions CAN YOU HAVE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE TWICE? Having a once in a lifetime experience twice is kind of like having deja vu all over again. Feeble minds like mine are not equipped to deal with such philosophical puzzles as these. A once in a lifetime experience was what I thought I had when BYU won a national championship in football in 1984. Been there, done that. Now, I may have to gear up again for a sequel. If Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone can continue to do movies, I guess I can expand my life expectancy to include another once in a lifetime national title in football. Believe it or not, there are now actually some credible national college football writers and commentators making an early case for BYU as a national title possibility. We aren't one of those. But as many like to point out, we aren't national and we aren't credible. Half of that description also applies to ESPN College Football analyst Kirk Herbstreit. You may remember that it was Herbstreit who dismissed BYU before the season started and said that Fresno State was way better than the Cougars. He has now been backtracking on his assessment of BYU. Not me. I said before the season started and I will say it again now, BYU will not go undefeated this season. Nothing against the Cougars. They are a very, very good football team, but in our opinion, going undefeated in the college game goes against the percentages. We cite USC, Florida, Wake Forest and even Virginia losing to Duke last week. as examples of the nature of college football. That is why I still stick with the prediction of BYU losing at least one game this year. I also want to go on the record by saying that the one loss will not happen this week against Utah State in Logan. As Bronco Mendenhall preaches, however, we have to be held accountable for what we say. As punishment for my predictions, if they don't come to fruition, I will volunteer to co-star with Stallone in his next movie. The working title is Rambo In a Rest Home. Like Herbstreit, however, it never hurts to cover your backside in case I am wrong and BYU does go undefeated. Here then is the front side of the BCS and BYU. BYU is currently ranked No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 9 in the Harris Interactive Poll. Those are the two polls that count. Both are used by the BCS in its formula for picking teams for a national title game. Each poll is a third of the formula. For the record, BYU is also ranked No. 8 in the most recent AP poll. Also, for the record, and since the interest and BYU are both so high in the polls this early in the season, here is the actual BCS Rankings formula. The first release of BCS rankings will be issued on October 19. That will be three days after BYU has played TCU in Fort Worth. Hopefully this all won't be a moot point by then. If the Cougars get a win over TCU in Texas, you can then count me in for the national title debate. BCS Rankings Standings include three components: USA Today Coaches Poll, Harris Interactive College Football Poll and an average of six computer rankings. Each component will count one-third toward a team's overall BCS score. All three components shall be added together and averaged for a team's ranking in the BCS Standings. The team with the highest average shall rank first in the BCS Standings. The first BCS Standings of the 2008 season will be released on Sunday, October 19. The BCS Standings will be used for: 1. Selecting the teams that will participate in the national championship game. 2. Determining any other automatic qualifiers; and, 3. Establishing the pool of eligible teams for at-large selection. Polls In the Harris Interactive Football Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll, a team will be evaluated on the number of voting points it receives in each poll. A team's Harris Interactive score will be its points in the poll divided by its total possible voting points (if 114 voters, then 2850=114x25). The same formula will apply to the USA Today Coaches poll and its total voting points (if 63 voters, then 1575=63x25). The number of actual voters, which can vary, is figured into the computation on a weekly basis in stating each team's percentage of a possible perfect score. Computer Rankings Six computer rankings will be used: Jeff Sagarin, Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, and Dr. Peter Wolfe. Points will be assigned in inverse order of ranking from 1-25. A team's highest and lowest computer ranking will be discarded in calculating its computer rankings average. The four remaining computer scores will be averaged and the total will be calculated as a percentage of 100. All BYU has to do to make noise in the national title story and BCS rankings is continue to win. That will take care of two-thirds of the equation with the two polls. The interesting part of the equation are the six computer polls. They are quirky at best. For example, Sagarin currently has BYU rated No. 8. Boise State is rated No. 6 and Utah is in at No. 10. Andersen & Hester won't have its first rating release until Oct 19. Last year, their final pre-bowl game rankings had Missouri No. 1, Kansas No. 2 followed by LSU, USC and Georgia. Wolfe's ratings also won't be release until Oct 19. Last year his system had Virginia Tech finishing at No. 1 followed by Oklahoma, LSU, Missouri and Ohio State. The latest Colley Matrix ranking has BYU ranked No. 19. Alabama is No. 1 and Vanderbilt is No. 2. Utah is rated No. 3 and Boise State is currently No. 8. Billingsly currently has BYU at No. 8. He has Boise State at No. 12 and Utah at No. 13. Massey has Alabama as his current No. 1 team with Northwestern rated No. 2 and Vanderbilt at No. 3. Utah is No. 4, Boise State is No. 5 and BYU is ranked No. 19. As you can see, BYU is doing extremely well on the actual football field and in the two polls that count, but when it comes to the six computer rankings, it is still quite quirky. Polls and People Since the polls are really a popularity contest of people selected to vote it might be a good time to take a look at some of those people who either have BYU or Mountain West connections. Here are some names we found in the Harris Poll with those connections. Bob Gagliardi is the sports editor of the Wyoming Tribune in Cheyenne. He covers the Cowboys. Earle Bruce is a former Colorado State head coach and a very good friend of LaVell Edwards. Lee Grosscup is a former Utah quarterback from several decades ago. Rondo Fehlberg is a former BYU AD. Bob Frederick is a former Kansas AD and a former BYU basketball assistant under Glen Potter. Fred Goldsmith is a former Duke head coach and a former Air Force assistant coach. Jim Copeland is a former Virginai and SMU AD. He also worked two years at Utah as an AD. Chad Henning is a former Air Force player. Tim Neverett is a current broadcaster for the Mtn Network. As for the coaches poll, Joe Glenn of Wyoming, Rocky Long of New Mexico, Gary Patterson of TCU and Kyle Whittingham of Utah all have votes. Besides Glenn, both Rick Neuheisel and Tyrone Willingham have also played BYU and have votes in the coaches poll. Urban Meyer has Mountain West connections, having been the coach at Utah for two years. Hal Mumme made several stops at BYU studying the Cougar's offense makes no bones about the fact that his offense is patterned after BYU's. He currently is the head guy at New Mexico State. Steve Kragthorpe, now the coach at Louisville, has Provo connections. He lived there when his dad was an assistant for LaVell Edwards. Mike Price has BYU connections from his days at the coach at Weber State. HAWS PICKS BYU It was a big day for BYU basketball last Wednesday when Tyler Haws, the 6-5 wing from Lone Peak HS in Utah, told Dave Rose that he would be signing an early letter of intent with the Cougars in November. Haws had narrowed his college choice to either Stanford or BYU. Here are the vital stats for Haws. He has led his high school team to two straight 5-A state championships. He has been a two time state MVP as selection by one of the state's two major newspapers. He averaged 18.8 points per game as a sophomore and 20.8 points as a junior. He was the 2008 Utah Gatorade Player of the year. Those are the things that you can put on paper. What Dave Rose and all other programs recruiting Haws wanted, was what you couldn't put on paper and what they saw on the court. Haws is a player. He is not a highlight film. Most basketball fans confuse the two. What Haws does is win. He will not be a Kobe Bryant or Lebron James. He doesn't have that kind of athletic ability. Manu Genobli We have described Haws before as a Manu Genobli type player. The 6-6 Argentinean is not extremely athletic and certainly isn't a Kobe Bryant or Lebron James, but he can score on them and play with them and more importantly, beat them. Here's our take on Haws. He is a decent shooter. Not great, but decent. He is a decent ball handler. Not great, but decent. He rebounds well for his size. Not great, but decent. He is a great finisher and a great go-to-guy. We expect that to continue at BYU. When BYU has been good, they have had go-to players and finishers. The two most recent were Keena Young and Travis Hansen. We expect Haws to be a level or two above those two as a finisher and go-to guy. As good as Young and Hansen were, the last time BYU had a go-to guy who could deliver a clutch NCAA win, his name was Danny Ainge. Haws is no Ainge. Ainge was an open court player. Haws is a slasher and a scorer. What Haws does is finish. He can get to the basket and either convert or get fouled. That is a rarity these days. He also is a guy that wants the ball in his hands when the game is on the line and more importantly, he is a guy that the coaches want to have the ball in those same situations. The commitment by Haws has been the culmination of five years of recruiting by Rose and his staff. Haws has been at the top of their board for the last three seasons. He has also been the topic of recruiting conversations by BYU fans for the last two years. We have never had so many emails from so many different people who claim to be neighbors, ward members, insiders, clairvoyants and clerics, who have mostly said that Haws would not be signing with BYU. That told us just how good Haws was as a player and how good Dave Rose was as a recruiter. FLUFF AND STUFF Back in the WAC...In 2012, BYU will have a MWC schedule and a WAC schedule. This past week it was announced that BYU and Hawaii have agreed on a two game home and home schedule. BYU will host the Warriors in Provo in 2012 and then play in Honolulu in 2013. That means that in 2012, BYU will be playing 3 WAC teams and Washington as part of their non-conference slate for that year. The other two WAC teams will be Boise State and Utah State. There are some who think that BYU adding Hawaii could be taking a page out of the Rick Majerus recruiting book. The old Utah basketball coach always told recruits that if they signed with him, he would do all he could do to make sure that he would schedule a game in, or close to, the home town of that particular recruit during his time in Majerus' program. That could also be the case with Manti Te'o, the outstanding linebacker from Punahou HS in Hawaii. Te'o, who is LDS, has indicated that regardless of where he signs, he will be serving an LDS mission. That means that should he sign with the Cougars, he would play as a freshman in 2009, be gone for the 2010 and 2011 seasons while on a mission and then be back in time to play in Provo in 2012 and in Honolulu in 2013. Quarterback Time Line...It is no secret that BYU coaches have a timeline for quarterbacks at BYU for the next eight years. It involves Max Hall for this season and next. It then includes Riley Nelson, the soon-to-be transfer from Utah State. Jake Heaps is also in the plans, despite the fact that he is only a junior in high school and BYU still has to recruit and sign him. Heck, why stop at eight years? Let's throw in another possible qb prospect who is still in junior high. His name is Tanner Mangum and he is a ninth grader at Les Bois Junior High in Boise. The thing that sets Mangum apart from other junior high students at his school is that after the final bell, he boards a school bus and heads over to Timberline High School, where he is the starting qb. In his first game, he threw for 335 yards and four touchdowns in a 48-27 win over Kuna. He was 14 years old at the time. He has since turned 15. Mangum, is 6-1, 165 pounds. His older brother, Parker Mangum, was a walkon at BYU last year. After three games, Mangum, the ninth grader, had completed 67-108 passes for 1002 yards and 10 touchdowns. We don't know if this kid will continue to develop and be a Division I prospect, but as long as the Cougars are already out eight years on their quarterback recruiting chart, they might as well make it twelve years. More Offers...BYU continues to recruit for the future. Recently the Cougars have put three more scholarships on the table for two high school juniors and a sophomore. All three are LDS. Harvey Langi is a 6-1, 205 pound sophomore running back from Bingham HS in Salt Lake. BYU has made him a scholarship offer. He would be part of the 2011 class. The Cougars have also offered junior defensive lineman Kona Schwenke of Kahuku HS in Hawaii. Schwenke is currently 6-5, 210 pounds. BYU also has put an offer on the table for junior linebacker Zac Stout. He plays at Oaks Christian, a private high school in Westlake, CA. The school is a Division I factory. Stout is 6-2, 215 pounds. TELEVISION TIMETABLE BYU vs. Utah State Friday, Oct 3 at Logan Kickoff: 6:00 pm Mountain Time TV: KJZZ (tentative) and BYUTV BYU vs. New Mexico Saturday, Oct 11 at Provo Kickoff: 4:00 PM Mountain Time TV: Mtn BYU vs. TCU Thursday, Oct 16 at Fort Worth Kickoff: 6:00 pm Mountain Time TV: Versus

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Direct TV Deal Still Good!
by hb 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

As you probably know by now, if you sign up for Direct TV with Cannon Satellite, a nationwide distributor for Direct TV, we will give you a free one-year subscription to Cougar Sportsline. Cannon Satellite will be competitive with any other Direct TV dealer and can install anywhere in the USA. You can still call them toll free to order and get installed, but now you can also order online. It's easy, hassle free and you never have to talk to anyone if you don't want. Here is the new online site: Cannon Satellite <http://www.cannonsatellite.com/?SID=4560> If you want to order over the phone, you can still call 1-888-800-8592. Be sure and ask for extension 4560 and mention the promotional code Cou8. When you ask the customer service rep about getting your free year of Cougar Sportsline, they won't know anything about it. Don't dismay. That is because they are in India at a call center and only know about how to get you signed up and installed with Direct TV. If you have used the extension # and promo code, I automatically receive an email from Cannon Satellite informing me that you have signed up. I then credit you with a free year subscription. Thanks, hb Centennial, CO - DIRECTV, the nation's leading satellite television provider, has announced that it will launch the MountainWest Sports Network - The Mtn. beginning Wednesday, August 27 on Channel 616. The Mtn. will be available on DIRECTV's Choice and above packages for the states and Designated Market Areas servicing Mountain West Conference institutions: Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming plus the markets of Dallas/Fort Worth and San Diego. Customers throughout the remainder of the county will be able to access The Mtn. with a subscription to DIRECTV's SportsPack.

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Direct TV Deal Still Good!
by hb 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

As you probably know by now, if you sign up for Direct TV with Cannon Satellite, a nationwide distributor for Direct TV, we will give you a free one-year subscription to Cougar Sportsline. Cannon Satellite will be competitive with any other Direct TV dealer and can install anywhere in the USA. You can still call them toll free to order and get installed, but now you can also order online. It's easy, hassle free and you never have to talk to anyone if you don't want. Here is the new online site: Cannon Satellite <http://www.cannonsatellite.com/?SID=4560> If you want to order over the phone, you can still call 1-888-800-8592. Be sure and ask for extension 4560 and mention the promotional code Cou8. When you ask the customer service rep about getting your free year of Cougar Sportsline, they won't know anything about it. Don't dismay. That is because they are in India at a call center and only know about how to get you signed up and installed with Direct TV. If you have used the extension # and promo code, I automatically receive an email from Cannon Satellite informing me that you have signed up. I then credit you with a free year subscription. Thanks, hb Centennial, CO - DIRECTV, the nation's leading satellite television provider, has announced that it will launch the MountainWest Sports Network - The Mtn. beginning Wednesday, August 27 on Channel 616. The Mtn. will be available on DIRECTV's Choice and above packages for the states and Designated Market Areas servicing Mountain West Conference institutions: Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming plus the markets of Dallas/Fort Worth and San Diego. Customers throughout the remainder of the county will be able to access The Mtn. with a subscription to DIRECTV's SportsPack.

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Cougar Sportsline, Vol. 29, Issue 8
by hb 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

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Cougar Sportsline, Vol. 29, Issue 8
by hb 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

HB Arnett's COUGAR SPORTSLINE 801 372 0819 hbarnett(a)fiber.net and hbarnett@xmission <mailto:hbarnett@xmission.com> .com PO Box 50424 Provo, Utah 84605 Vol. 29, Issue 8 - September 22, 2008 Click <http://www.cougarstreet.com/products/index.php?type-450&PCID=450:0:0:0:0> Here To Order Or Renew Your Subscriptions BYU GETS A WYOMING WASH AND WAX WITH 44-0 WIN BYU has a big trip before them on their journey to a potential BCS bid. Most of that trip will take the Cougars through the Mountain West Conference with some tough pit stops at TCU and Utah. Before any trip, it is always good to top off the gas tank and check the oil and air pressure of the tires. It doesn't hurt to buy a few snacks for munching along the way and then get a quick wash and wax. Wyoming was the perfect 44-0 one-stop convenience store for the Cougars. What BYU found was that they still have plenty of high-octane fuel in their tank for the upcoming trip. They also found that the left front tire was a little low on air pressure. That may have accounted for the Cougar's slow start offensively in the first quarter against the Cowboys. Once that minor correction was made, the only thing left was a nice Wyoming wash and wax. Except for a few minor water spots, BYU came out of this game looking pretty and poised for the long trip ahead. A Little Air Until BYU added a little air to the offensive tires in the opening quarter, it was the BYU defense that was providing the munch and crunch for the upcoming trip. Wyoming was an offensive bag of Cheetos full of mostly puff and fluff. The BYU defense ate them up. That tell-tale yellow-orange dust could be found on many BYU defender's hands. Scott Johnson, the BYU defensive back, put BYU on the board with its only score of the first quarter with a 64-yard score off a recovered Wyoming errant backward lateral. David Nixon hands weren't clean either. He left his mark on the game with a third quarter interception that he returned 19 yards for a score. Max Hall and company finally got untracked in the second quarter when the Cougars scored three touchdowns and put the game away. It started with a methodical 14-play, 86-yard drive that ended with a Harvey Unga 1-yard scoring plunge. That was followed by a 2-play scoring blitz culminating in a 62-yard scoring strike from Max Hall to Austin Collie. BYU finished its work in the first half with another 8-play, 59-yard drive. That ended with Hall's second and final TD toss of the game, a 7-yard scoring strike to Collie. Early Exit Hall, who once again made an early exit from the game in the third quarter, finished with 189 yards passing and two touchdowns. He was 16-27 on the day with no interceptions. Austin Collie accounted for most of Hall's passing yardage and completions. The junior receiver had 8 catches for 122 yards and two scores. He has put together two consecutive games that are as good as a BYU receiver has had in some time. Last week, you may remember, he hauled in 10 passes against UCLA for 110 yards and two touchdowns Harvey Unga continued his steady work on the ground. He had 95 yards on 19 carries. Unga also had 3 receptions from Hall for 37 yards. BYE BYE FOR BYU Officially, on the schedule, this coming week for BYU is listed as a bye. Unofficially, with Utah State next up on the docket for a game set for Friday, October 3 in Logan, it looks like the Cougars will have a two-week bye. That is good news for Michael Reed. The steady senior receiver, did not play against Wyoming after undergoing arthroscopic surgery last week to repair a torn meniscus in his knee. He will likely be back in time for the New Mexico game on October 11. The prognosis was for his return in 2-4 weeks. The one-week layoff will also benefit other Cougars who have been nursing some bumps and bruises incurred in the first four games of the year. BYU will practice four days this coming week, but all will be scaled back in intensity and physical play. Bronco Mendenhall will give his players the weekend off and then have them return for a regular week of practice the following Monday. Utah State also will not play a game this week and will have two weeks to prepare for the Cougars. The Aggies are currently 1-3 on the year after notching their first win of the season over Idaho, 42-17, in Logan last weekend. The losses for USU were to UNLV, 27-17, in Las Vegas, Oregon, 66-24 in Eugene and Utah, 58-10 in Logan. Television coverage of the game has been altered. According to BYUTV, their web site shows the game being televised live on that station. Both the BYU and Utah State athletic web sites, show no firm plans for televising the game. Earlier, the game was being advertised as being shown on KJZZ, a local channel in the Utah market. It could be that the game will be shown on both stations. That was the case last December when the BYU-Michigan State basketball game aired on both KJZZ and BYUTV. The only thing firm is the start time. It is 6 pm Mountain Time. For those with Dish Network, BYUTV is on channel 9403. It is channel 374 on Direct TV. MADDEN, MENDENHALL AND JAMES It sounds like a formidable law firm, but all three football coaches, John Madden, Bronco Mendenhall and Don James, have their own ideas for what makes successful teams. The venerable NFL color commentator and former coach of the Oakland Raiders, Madden made an interesting point Sunday night and it implicated BYU. In the pre game chit chat between Madden and Al Michaels about the match up between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, Michaels asked Madden what made the Cowboys such a potent offensive machine? Madden replied that the Cowboys had all the ingredients necessary to be a great offense. They had a big and tough offensive line. They had a bruising and tough running back in Marion Barber III. They had a playmaker outside in wide receiver Terrell Owens. They had a big physical tight end who could catch in Jason Witten. And then he concluded by saying the Cowboys also had a quarterback in Tony Romo who could deliver the ball to those playmakers. Where Are We Going? Can you see where we are going with this? Just as soon as Madden made his remarks, we immediately thought that his description of Dallas also applied to BYU. If we need to make a case for BYU as a great offensive team, you haven't been watching much college football this season. The Madden model for a great offensive team, certainly describes BYU this season. The Cougars have a big, physical and tough offensive line. They have the big bruising back in Harvey Unga. They have the outside playmaker in Austin Collie. They have a big tight end who can catch in Dennis Pitta and in Max Hall, they have a quarterback who makes sure they get the ball delivered to them in the right spots to make plays. The day before Madden made his comments, Bronco Mendenhall made some of his own concerning the state of BYU's football program. He said BYU was now in the "flywheel" mode and had enough inertia and momentum going to sustain a successful program for some time to come. We buy all of that and all that Mendenhall has established in returning BYU back to the national stage in football. Don James As much as we like Mendenhall's model, we still like Don James' mantra more. James, you may remember, was the longtime successful coach of the Washington Huskies when they were playing in Rose Bowls and competing for national championships. He used to say that you could tell how good a team was by how many NFL prospects they had on the roster. James used to say that you needed at least 7-8 NFL caliber players a year to be good. You can pick and choose which model you want to use. Take Madden, Mendenhall or James. They all point out the same thing. BYU is a very good offensive football team. We prefer to use the Don James model. If a team needs at lest eight NFL prospects on the roster to be good, BYU has at least that many on offense alone. Remember, James didn't say you needed eight first round picks, he simply said you needed eight or more NFL caliber players. On BYU's offense, of the five current offensive line starters, at least 4, and maybe 5, will either be drafted or sign as free agents in the NFL. We mentioned last week that we think Matt Reynolds could be the next John Tait for BYU. Fit Mold? Max Hall doesn't fit the prototypical NFL quarterback mold of a 6-5, rocket-armed qb, but he will play in the league or at least hold a clipboard and cash checks from the NFL. Harvey Unga is a big back that the NFL wants. His bonus is that he is big and can catch the ball out of the backfield. If you don't think he can play in the NFL, you haven't been watching much professional football. Fui Vakapuna, at first glance, doesn't seem like an NFL running back. We agree. What he can do is be a blocking fullback. Fahu Tahi has been cashing checks in that role for Minnesota for several years. Austin Collie will likely never be a big-time pro receiver, but he certainly has enough talent to make an NFL roster. Dennis Pitta is a pass-catching phenom in college. If he can bulk up and block, he has a shot at the NFL. First and foremost, the pros want a tight end that can block. That is why Dan Coats stuck in the NFL and Jonny Harline didn't. We like Madden and Mendenhall's theories, but we like Don James perspective more. The more NFL prospects you have, the better you will be. BYU has plenty on offense and that explains simply and succiinctly why they are so good this year. ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS For the first time in MWC history, three teams from that conference are all listed in the AP and Coaches top twenty five rankings. BYU is ranked No. 11 in both polls. Utah is No. 17 in both rankings and TCU is ranked No. 24 in the AP and No. 23 in the coaches' poll. Enjoy it while you can because TCU is likely to slip out of the polls next week. The Horned Frogs will travel to Oklahoma to face the Sooners this Saturday. OU is an early 18-point favorite. Utah will be at home and play Weber State and BYU, of course, has a bye. The fact that there are three MWC teams ranked would seem to indicate that the league has made some serious strides in garnering national respect and recognition. What is interesting is that this early in the season, six non BCS schools are currently ranked. In addition to the three from the MWC, Boise State and Fresno State from the WAC are in the top twenty five and Eastern Carolina from C-USA is still in the polls. The MWC, with its three ranked teams, has more schools in the polls than leagues like the Big East (1, South Florida), ACC (2, Wake Forest and Clemson), and the PAC 10 (1, USC). The SEC leads all conferences with 6 ranked teams, four of which are in the top ten. The Big 12 has 5 ranked teams and the Big Ten has 4 teams ranked. FLUFF AND STUFF Chris Washington, the defensive back from Northridge HS in Utah, has proven that the Mendenhall model for BYU football isn't for everyone. Washington committed to Utah and chose the Utes over BYU. According to Washington in an interview with the Rivals Network, an internet site that covers recruiting, he said, "It was nothing that Utah did any better than BYU. They were both nice and I like both schools a lot, but when it comes down to it, Utah, I thought, was the place for me and I just don't think BYU had an appealing experience with it." Washington continued by saying, "It's not that I'm not LDS that was a deal-breaker, because most of my friends, living in Utah, are LDS. I just didn't think I wanted to be in such a strict environment for the next four to five years of my life." BYU still has at least three other scholarship offers on the table for Utah high school prospects. Here they are: Latu Heimuli, DL, 6-4, 305, Highland HS Richard Wilson, TE, 6-4, 225, Spanish Fork HS Xavier Su'a Filo, OL, 6-5, 265, Timpview HS Of the three, Wilson seems the most likely to accept the Cougars offer. He will likely chose between the Cougars and LSU. Heimuli will be tripping to Nebraska, but BYU is still chasing him. Su'a Filo seems set on going to a BCS school and is a long shot to sign with the Cougars. TELEVISION TIMETABLE BYU vs. Utah State Friday, Oct 3 at Logan Kickoff: 6:00 pm Mountain Time TV: KJZZ (tentative) and BYUTV BYU vs. New Mexico Saturday, Oct 11 at Provo Kickoff: 4:00 PM Mountain Time TV: Mtn BYU vs. TCU Thursday, Oct 16 at Fort Worth Kickoff: 6:00 pm Mountain Time TV: Versus

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Cougar Sportsline, Vol. 29, Issue 7
by hb 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

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Only 6 Hours Left to Save on Sportsline
by hb 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Dear Former Cougar Sportsline Subscriber, We are having a sale on Cougar Sportsline subscriptions. Check it out. The More BYU Scores Against UCLA, The More You Save! Now's your chance to cash in on the BYU offense against UCLA this Saturday. For this week only we are having a Cougar Sportsline 30% off Subscription Sale. For the next 6 hours, you can order, renew or extend a current subscription and save 30% off our regular subscription rates. A regular one-year subscription is normally $50.This week it is only $35 A regular two-year subscription is normally $90.This week it is only $70 Plus Bonus Issues! In addition to this best price ever for a subscription to Cougar Sportsline, we will add a free issue for every point over 35 that the Cougars score this Saturday against UCLA. For example. Buy a one-year subscription and you normally get 40 issues. If BYU scores 37 points against the Bruins, we will add another 2 issues to those 40 issues. If BYU lights it up for 50 points, you get the normal 40 issues plus an additional 15 more issues. The same holds true for a two-year subscription. Click <http://www.cougarstreet.com/products/index.php?type=450&PCID=450:0:0:0:0> Here To Order! This offer expires midnight Friday, September 12, 2008

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BYU's Offense Can Save You Money!
by hb 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

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Cougar Sportsline, Vol. 29, Issue 6
by hb 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

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