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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96
Much ado about nothing. BYU's fanbase is notorious for whining so they want to be victims and the other fanbases in the MWC are as big a group of pussies who want to whine about BYU and convince themselves that BYU imagines itself holier than thou.
The religious aspect of BYU makes pussies of the entire conference.
This same crap happens in every conference. Nobody wants to allow one team to run away with it all so they run it like a contest in Primary and seek to make everyone leaving feeling good about themselves. Anyone with a pulse knows that Harvey Unga is the best offensive player in the conference and that Bronco Mendenhall ran roughsod over the conference after replacing all of his key weapons from next year but they don't want any one individual program to monopolize the awards, it is not an anti-BYU bias it is an anti-monopoly bias and it is just that historically and presently BYU is the monopilistic winner in its conference.
So it is not a conspiracy it is the underlying rules and desire to make everyone feel good.
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I agree mostly, but I do think that Chad Hall was legit as the OPOY.
As for Calhoun the precedent has been set in the MWC/WAC that the coach of the year award is basically a most improved award. It rarely goes to the best coach in the conference. Look at basketball and look at how infrequently that Majerus won the award.