Congrats from a BYU fan!
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Last year I got tickets to the pre-game hospitality tent before a game.
They prepare a meal themed after the visiting team’s location.
I hinted strongly that I wanted tickets to the tent for this game because I felt like a theme of food from the state of Iowa would have been pretty great.
No luck, so we had to settle for cougar tails in the stadium.
That was fantastic. Do they often do videos related to the opposing team? Or was this something special because of the uniqueness of the 100th anniversary of Jack Trice's death?
One nitpick. Jack Trice was the first African-American player for Iowa State, not for college football.
First black player in history of major college football programs
These players paved the way for generations of college football athletes.
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The Jack Trice piece by BYU TV was so impressive and says a lot about BYU that they are so interested in the story. I don't know if they used existing interviews from the various persons in the piece or did if they did them themselves, but for sure they brought one of their own football players here to make a major contribution to the project. This, along with all the positive comments from those of you that made the trip out there, make me feel very good about have BYU joining the conference!
Thanks Cougars fan(s). I am so glad we were able to get the W, it just happened to be in Provo. Your time in the conference will come, I'm sure. Good luck the rest of the way.
Many of us follow the 49ers now as Brock Purdy is their QB. He is a great story in the NFL this year and last, and was great for us, 4 year starter.
I just now looked up Fred Warner, 49er LB, wondering where he played college ball. I learned that it was BYU!!
Seeing this in print for the first time, the P4 part. Yes, happy that BYU is in conference now, but realizing that the Pac 12 is done now. Sad.
I'm addressing specifically their period of "independence". Their AD et al were so angry about not being taken with Utah to PAC, that someone somehow deluded themselves into thinking leaving MWC was a brilliant idea. Sigh. Not so much. While the temptation to schadenfreude is definitely there, especially seeing them get hammered at home, I'm far more inclined to have full sympathy (not just mere empathy) for the struggles they will endure. And I feel far more for the BYU fans of my generation (late Boomers) who have had the yo-yo experience no one wants over the last 15 year or so.
I have no idea why you think staying in the MWC would have been better for BYU.
Their revenue per year nearly doubled:
They had one losing season, but otherwise went to a bowl every year (2011-2022):
They were on national TV 87 times (15th most of any program):
It would have been great to go to a P5 conference in 2011, but your perspective that the last 12 years have been some kind of football wasteland is pretty funny.
TailS, plural.
Wouldn't be quite as creepy if I wasn't referencing my teenage boys eating the BYU stadium treats. Ya, know, I should give up while I'm ahead...