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BYU 2011 Outlook
The Purple Wimple welcomes back Jake, now a recidivist guest contributor about BYU at the Wimple, to look ahead at BYU. BYU’s last football season started off as a train wreck. After the loss at Utah State the Cougars were 1-4, their worst start in nearly 40 years. However, the Cougars gained...
Spring Questions
A few key questions that TCU and each of its D-1A opponents look to answer this spring. Air Force- Will Ken Lamendola, out for most of two seasons with injuries, reclaim a starting role at linebacker? And who's going to replace Reggie Rembert and Anthony Wright in the secondary? Baylor- Skipping...
Mountain West 2010 Retrospective: The Middle’uns
Air Force, San Diego State, and BYU each beat all of the four bottom feeders in the conference. What San Diego State, BYU, and Air Force could not do was beat TCU or Utah, and that is what made them all "middle'uns" in 2010. AFA and SDSU would tell you they also both beat BYU, but the record...
Wrap up: in 2010 the Frogs got the monkey off their back
Way back on September 2nd (only in football does three months a few days seem way back) the Wimple offered, as a public service, five reasons to curb our collective enthusiasm for the newborn football season. Relax, was the message: 2009 rocked, and there're a lot of good reasons to expect 2010,...
TCU 31, BYU 3
Clearly Bronco Mendenhall has learned the lesson of the F-Bowl: TCU lived and died in 2009 by its running game. "TCU was running it about 270 yards a game [in 2010] and we did not want to allow them to be multi-dimensional...I think we played the run effectively. We could not allow them to be two...
Opponent Preview: BYU
It's ironic: the program that deconstructs two 1A conferences in order to midwife its own independence is having a terrible time re-constructing its own offense. That such an offensive move could coincide with such a punchless offense is proof God has both a sense of humor, and perhaps less regard...
Mountain West at midseason
Through six weeks, who is a better freshman quarterback in the MWC than Jake Heaps? A better freshman runningback than Waymon James? Why are Utah's eye-popping defensive stats suspect? What team's back seven includes four of the top five tackle leaders in the conference? Answers to these, and...
MWC Roundup
Perusing the Mountain West after three weeks' play: Air Force nearly took down Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday, falling short 27-24 despite scoring the game's final 14 points. The Falcons had more first downs (25 to 24), yards (458 to 367), were better on third and fourth down (63.1% converted to...
MWC Unit Preview: Passing Attacks
TCU- Read 'em and weep, defensive coordinators: Jeremy Kerley, Jimmy Young, Antoine Hicks. They're all back, and like last season, they'll be giving Andy Dalton targets at every level of the field last on just about every down. Then there're the backups: Curtis Clay, Bart Johnson, and Jonathan...
Holy War report card
Yeah, this pretty much describes how I felt... A win over BYU is season saving. Really, had that kick sailed through the uprights to end the game Saturday, I think we'd all be ready to write this season off as pretty much a disaster. Now, though, it's found new life and with a bowl game left,...
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