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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96
A fan of being anti-BYU = anti-BYU fan.
Saying that I do recall that a daily tactic you used as a smokescreen to camouflage your uncle's incompetence was to smeer the accomplishments of his holyness, Lavell Edwards, so perhaps you have long been an anti-BYU fan.
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First, if you would ever bother paying attention, my contention all along is that SOS, in a vacuum, should not be the be-all, end-all of determining how good or bad a team is. I get sick and tired of BYU fans slapping around teams like Boise State for rising to prominence using essentially the same scheduling model BYU used to to during their glory years (1979-1984) where they would schedule one quality BCS school and fill the remainder of their OOC schedule with questionable competition. It reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.
What the easier schedule allowed them to do as a budding program was to bump up their W-L record, which then snowballed into more national recognition and improved talent.
There is no denying that after BYU's national championship and all the crap they got about their SOS, they made a conscious effort to crank up their OOC difficulty. But along with that came a lot more volatility in their W-L record. Let's take 1991. BYU was 0-3-1 against some very good BCS teams and 8-0-1 against WAC/Utah State.
I'd just like BYU fans to recognize, understand and embrace their roots rather than engage in the same bullshit snobbery used against BYU in the past.
Often, you come off as really intelligent, but when you see this as being some bizarre rip on LaVell, apologize for Crowton post, I honestly have to reconsider.