BillySee58

Great start. Mo Anefiok has been a stud

You wore underwear for that game! Sounds like someone didn't live by their own motto that day. #dbab

Double or nothing if (once) it gets to OT

Last time you took us with the points against OU you were right.

NT03 beat me to it!

BYU lost tonight to Pepperdine and is now 8-7, and just 1-5 since they played us. I promise this is the last time I bump this thread and I'll stop beating this dead horse. Just don't believe the junk we were hearing that this was a top 20 team that had us down by 40 and that they were beating us that bad because they are just that good. Or... there is this rumor going around. That was a top 20 team that beat us in Provo. However, whenever they've been going on the road the opposing coaches have asked their arena security to confiscate any and all lunch pails before allowing BYU to enter the visiting team locker room. This has effectively incapacitated the Stormin Mormons; hence their losing streak.

Congratulations. Only their second loss. We had a moral victory against them though!

Sounds about right.

Kilgore was doing fine on the short passes. He's never been a downfield passer.

Exactly. He just keeps saying we're complaining about the schedule, when it's clearly the results that are the issue. We scheduled NAIA Northwood (2nd year of having a team) and Wayland Baptist. Cool! Blow them out. Don't let them have a game-tying three-point shot attempt in the last minute of the game. You don't see that everywhere.

Minus the receding hairline.

Well, he thought they were a top 20 team after he watched them play us. They're 8-6 and just lost to Loyola Marymount by 11. Either he saw a bad sample or he isn't good at judging teams. Andrew's an okay guy in my book so I'm not going to suggest the latter.

As someone who has seen this year's team play multiple times, I would say not in our case. If you saw the team play last year you aren't really missing any groundbreaking stuff this year. Same problems (problem) as last year.

Forming an opinion of a team off one game can be misleading. Especially if their opponent was us for that one game.

Similarities in their game, yes. If he could be anywhere near the rebounder Mitchell was then we'd be set. He just isn't the next Tony Mitchell, he's Jeremy Combs.

Good to see Taylor Hooker back after giving birth. Congrats to her!

SMU does okay in Houston. They raided that Houston Lamar school that played in the state championship game against Allen last year. Other than that they're classes look like us as far as where players are from, with the exception that they like to get players from Florida. TCU is also basically the same as we are with getting kids from Houston. They also do what I want us to do in the future, which is recruit outside of the state without putting a lot of resources out there. They recruit the greater Atlanta area, Louisiana, and the Midwest. They target a few kids and they don't get them all, but it doesn't break their class if they don't get those out of state kids.

I knew you were being sarcastic with the at the end, I just can't stand these reaches of comparisons based on not actually seeing the guy play.

How many games have you seen them play? That one game against us? We made them look way better than they are. They're a team with plenty of weaknesses and we exposed none of them. You aren't convincing us that they're a great team and we shouldn't be as concerned about that blowout where they were beating us by 40 points. You're just lying to yourself Andrew. Andrew, you are not a Benford backer. You are seen as one because you say things like "they're a top 20 team and they'll only lose to top 25-30 teams." Then after they lose to Loyola Marymount you're making excuses for them, just like you do for Benford. And yes, please define the word "great" as it relates to sports teams. Calling this BYU team great is unfair to teams that actually deserve(d) to be called great.

Tony was 2 inches taller and could handle the ball and knock down threes. Stop with these comparisons. Kept seeing you compare Anefiok and Roger Franklin too. Those guys are nothing alike.

BYU lost to Loyola Marymount 87-76 today and is now 8-6.

Exactly. Also, probably shouldn't be making fun of UL-Monroe since they beat us twice last year.

How's his back-to-the-basket game?

Our schedule itself and the easy teams we've played are not the problem. It's that the two NAIA teams we've played both had a game tying 3-point shot attempt in the last minute against us and that our marquee home opponent this year was SFA who drummed us by almost 40 points.

That's what I figured. How does he score so many points? He had 50 points in a game last year and had a high average, plus he's doing the same this year. That's a lot of points for someone who plays decent competition and isn't a three-point shooter or a 6'9"+ dominant post player.