I am a extremely strong BYU Cougar Football Fan. I do not aways agree with other extremely strong BYU Cougar Football Fans. That’s okay. We do not have to agree on which GPS route to take as long as our routes bring the Cougars the success, the respect, and the tools they ;need to be successful.
I do not like posting from other BYU Cougar fans, on other sites, that put down the Utah Utes to constantly point out their less than perfect successes. Yes, I know they do it to us also. I don’t like it in either direction.
I really do believe in the scriptures that say that we should
“Love our neighbor as our self”;
“Do onto others as we would have others do onto us”;
And not scripture, but good advice from our parents and society at large,
“If you can’t say something good about someone/something, don’t say anything at all”.
Having said all of this, I do wish that we have had the same success or better, that the Utah Utes have had, on the field, in the BCS bowls, getting into the Pac 12 conference and doing quite well within that conference.
I am not sure that ENVY is the correct word, but I do admire them for their success and I hope that we make the necessary changes in our demands that up until now, have not been flexible, and that positive changes can be made so that we do find success on the field, in the bowls and eventually in a Power 5 conference.
Other religious institutions, i.e. Boston College, Baylor, TCU, Notre Dame, to name a few, have found ways to be successful and still keep the commandments of the Lord, as well as the rules of the NCAA. So can BYU, if it will.
Yes I know their have been some pitfalls along the way for some of those institutions, i.e. SMU when they received their death penalty, Baylor a couple years ago, and BYU about 13 years ago in football and a few years later in basketball, but these have been the exception to the rule. Life has no guarantees that their will not be road blocks along the way that are not planned on.
I do not believe that we have to wait for the NCAA to make changes in their policies. Instead, I believe that BYU Must make changes in it’s policies.
The need is now. Never have we been as bad as we are now at what we once did well against those teams that we once dominated, but no longer do.