- Greg Wrubell’s Cougar Tracks blog is always a good read. I especially like this entry, in which Bronco calls Saturday’s game against FSU “athletes against athletes.” Am I wrong in hoping this is not the case?
- As always, the BYU slideshow of Saturday’s game features some fantastic pictures with some not so fantastic radio play-by-play. Might I suggest muting it and providing your own soundtrack? Try Passion Pit’s “Little Secrets.”
- The Trib’s Jay Drew has a piece up today, explaining one of New Smiley Bronco’s new rules for the season, banning players from thinking about the next week’s opponent until Monday.
“It is too hard to win football games, and [the season] is too fast not to enjoy small moments when you have them,” Mendenhall said. “So that was the advice I gave them. Whether they can do it or not, whether I can do it or not, we will see.”
I am soooooooooo happy last season is over!
- Max Hall is stuck at #4 in ESPN’s Heisman Watch. Unless something changes, it’s looking like a three horse race.
- In this week’s Bad Journalism 101 lesson, Kurt Kragthorpe seems to stake his credibility on BYU’s unproven defense and simultaneously patronizes his readership, without actually committing himself to any sort of interesting statement about that defense:
“Take it from someone who studies defenses: These guys have improved.”
- Jay Drew’s Sunday article is a rare oasis of interest in a desert of cookie-cutter post-game analyses. I love how he picks an item of interest (12 receivers catching passes on Saturday), shows why it happened, and gives it a context in terms of team strategy. Drew quotes Bronco as saying that spreading the ball around is his strategy for dealing with the loss of Austin Collie–something most pre-season analyses didn’t even consider.
