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  1. 11 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    Look, shitty, and crockett, if you insist on trying to promote your former G5 side in this forum, you are asking for it.  "We're not G5 therefore we're P5" barely works for domer.  Don't try to sell it around here.

    It took us almost 140 years to get rid of aggy, and replacing them with you is not in the script.

    When questioned with overwhelming evidence that subverts your reality tunnel, you resort to projection and claims of bigotry which in your mind remain "faith-promoting".

    The reason you have to attack this premise with projection ("you didn't say you hate the brethren but i say you do therefore your evidence is wrong") is because your temple recommend requires you to testify that brig was a Prophet of God and therefore incapable of doing such a thing.  You suffer from a crushing shock of cognitive dissonance when confronted with even the *possibility* that the faith-promoting version of deseret history is complete bullshit.

    In Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Utah in the 19th century, and in particular in Utah in 1857, there was no distinction between religious history, political history, economic history, civil history and military history.  So conversely, where is the evidence that briggy didn't order the job?  And ipso facto, where is the evidence that someone else did?  When Colonel Dame arrived at the job site and started waffling over the severity of the carnage, who was Haight talking about when he said "he would put the saddle on the right horse?"  Why did Cousin George take off on his (for 1857) hypersonic round trip through dixie the day after Eleanor McClean Pratt arrived following a record 12-day nonstop hop from Kansas to Salt Lake (driven by Porter Rockwell, no less)?  And why then did Brig give directions to talk the Baker-Fancher train in to going south to California instead of west to Oregon?

    I don't "believe" the worst.  I draw my conclusions as your worst nightmare: an investigator that is FULLY informed.

    I'm not wasting my time in a sports board arguing with a misinformed know-it-all. You can read this book if you want an unflinching, fair look at the matter.

  2. 2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    look closely shittybear..... the men and boys gunned down in cold blood are buried in this cairn:

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    HALT!  DO YOUR DUTY!

    Utah 18 runs parallel to the power line in the background.

    More than 50 women and children, including approximately 25 girls under the age of 12, are buried in this cairn, only 20 yards from Utah 18:

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    lets have some testimony tears to assure us NONE OF IT IS TRUE!

     

    Horrible tragedy that should not have happened. But Brigham Young didn't order it; locals did. The historical evidence suggesting the possibility that BY ordered it is very weak and there is lots of evidence that he didn't. But you already hate Mormons, so you believe the worst. 

    Why is religious history even in a sports forum? Still traumatized by the Taysom Hill Massacres? Focus on the thread topic, dude.

  3. On 9/16/2019 at 8:57 AM, Bevo14 said:

    I think all this is reasonable given UCLA's inherent appeal. Your problem is your AD keeps making shitty old, lazy, "safe" hires. You need to bring someone young and unproven in like MensaTom that will come in with his hair on fire and work on getting the resources/facilities he needs to succeed if UCLA doesn't have them already. At minimum, they need to have a plan to build culture at the school. If they have ties to LA or they're at least a west coast guy it's probably even better. Shit, I think someone like Kiffin would've been better than Chip even.

    UCLA was also set to be the next Jordan branded school after the adidas contract expired. Deal was near final and then Under Armour offered more money and UCLA opted for UA. Just another example of dumb decision-making at UCLA. I say this as someone who went to UCLA for grad school, so I care. I'm stilled vexed about it. 

  4. 7 hours ago, 'stache said:

    I know they don't have many black people, but that crowd is pale as fuck.

    It's not as bad as you think. The colored section is cropped from that photo.

  5. 23 hours ago, Iceman said:

    If you ignore his influences on the game of football at every level, not to mention his coaching tree...

    Well, you should STFU and not discuss football.

    He is at the root of what is great about the game.

    And Leach was heavily influenced by LaVell Edwards and BYU. Leach acknowledges that a lot of the Air Raid elements came from his time at BYU.

    "We had quite a few people come and visit, and hang around and observe, and that's how a lot of that got started with ... Mike Leach and other guys," Edwards said. "We shared a lot of information in those days."

    Leach said Edwards is "easily one of the greatest coaches that has ever coached. And I think that's indisputable." He said he would hang out at BYU spring practices with offensive line coach Roger French, Norm Chow and Edwards and soak up all the knowledge he could get.

    "They were throwing the ball all over the place," Leach said. "It influenced me directly, specifically. It is the core of a lot of things we do offensively, the philosophy of attacking the whole field, and then you take it a step further..."

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  6. 2 hours ago, Underdog said:

    Saw a FB post about BYU going retro with the field also,  looks sharp. 

    I know this site loves all things BYU, so I am going to post more BYU content for your enjoyment:

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  7. 1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    "Well we've got an attractive and recognizable visual brand, what do you recommend?"

    "LET'S FUCK THE SHIT UP COMPLETELY, THEY'LL NEVER SEE IT COMING"

    I always suspected a Utah grad got involved somehow and convinced BYU to change what already worked perfectly

    The move to navy from royal was a misguided attempt to get the cheap fans to wear the school colors more because hey people probably already have some navy in their closet.

    As for the tan, I have no explanation other than maybe to create a unique color combo because navy alone isn't and nobody was using tan (for good reason)? Otherwise, it has to be revenge or sabotage. Probably a Harvard Business School case study for poor decision making could be made out of this.

    Also, the article that TeddyBearStallion linked to mentioned that the bib uniforms were outlawed because of the two color schemes on a single jersey. Any other examples out there of a jersey so bad the NCAA outlawed it?

  8. 4 hours ago, mdmost said:

    So small changes to the Y?

    I can't begin to tell you how glad I am that BYU is re-emphasizing royal blue under Kalani Sitake. Bronco Mendenhall started to dabble in it, but Kalani is bringing it back in a big way. Distinctive color and a classic and clean look that evokes some of our greatest years. I think our royal uniforms belong with the best in college football:

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    I'd be good if we completely shed the navy and went completely to royal, too.

    And may the hated navy and tan bib uniforms / color combo forever rot in hell.

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