Grit Sighting

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Let the season begin.

I don't mind the use of grit, or players or coaches having grit. Only as long as the presence of grit is not used to get players on the field that shouldn't be.

For me, I hope I never hear the word "grit" again the rest of my life!

Add that to the stupid/banned word list that should never be uttered in reference to BYU football.



Execution

Grit

Quest

Perfection

mizzoucoug wrote:
Add that to the stupid/banned word list that should never be uttered in reference to BYU football.



Execution

Grit

You forgot the oft misundertood "quest."

And maybe add this sentence to the banned list: "We must establish the run in order to establish the pass." I could never understand that. Here we were, the best passing team in the nation, and good ol' Norm Chow somehow thought that we couldn't be successful passing unless we somehow ran our only running play a million times. I would have thought that by establishing the pass we could then establish the run. But hey, what do I know?

Cougarfan87 wrote:

Add that to the stupid/banned word list that should never be uttered in reference to BYU football.



Execution

Grit

You forgot the oft misundertood "quest."

Added. All that word does is make me think of Van Damme's The Quest. *shudder*

I don't care what words anyone uses as long as our O-line shows up this year.

Grit should amplify talent, not make up for it.

I'm ok with Execution. One, while sometimes overused, it still is critical; and two, if IT doesn't happen then there is and ought to be the implied, "off with his head." :-)



BUT, heck yes! I hope never to see the word grit ever again. EVER. unless of course, it has the word TRUE in front of it.



And by the way how about we throw in there the words, "tougher than all of us"?

I guess I'm the odd one out, but I honestly couldn't care less what words they use, be it grit, quest, execution, etc.



I hope that Taysom Hill has the grit to execute his quest for perfection to the highest possible level.

hawkwing wrote:
I guess I'm the odd one out, but I honestly couldn't care less what words they use, be it grit, quest, execution, etc.



I hope that Taysom Hill has the grit to execute his quest for perfection to the highest possible level.

Let me clarify. I don't mind when coaches use these terms as much because, hey, it's just mindless coach-speak. My problem is when fans parrot these same words in an attempt to analyze a game. *facepalm* It's embarrassing.



There's a reason it's called "coach-speak."

hawkwing wrote:
I guess I'm the odd one out, but I honestly couldn't care less what words they use, be it grit, quest, execution, etc.



I hope that Taysom Hill has the grit to execute his quest for perfection to the highest possible level.

Well, one thing is certain, he'll he need to fully invested if he wants to achieve position mastery so that he can go hard and go fast while playing for a special program that is filled with a quality of young man that isn't found on many other campuses (or is it campae?).

1967cougar wrote:
And maybe add this sentence to the banned list: "We must establish the run in order to establish the pass." I could never understand that. Here we were, the best passing team in the nation, and good ol' Norm Chow somehow thought that we couldn't be successful passing unless we somehow ran our only running play a million times. I would have thought that by establishing the pass we could then establish the run. But hey, what do I know?

This makes as much sense as anything I've seen here for a while. I don't know about Chow and his running play, I do remember BYU tearing teams defenses apart with pass after pass that sooner or later got away from them. I remember games where BYU scored in the 40s, 50s and even higher. It didn't matter much that the other team got into the 30s when we had 20 points on them and 10 of their points came in the last quarter when Edwards was training his next years team. Those teams were fun to watch and that is an understatement. The other teams can have 3 yards and a cloud of dust, I want to be up where the air is clear.

nuk13 wrote:

And maybe add this sentence to the banned list: "We must establish the run in order to establish the pass." I could never understand that. Here we were, the best passing team in the nation, and good ol' Norm Chow somehow thought that we couldn't be successful passing unless we somehow ran our only running play a million times. I would have thought that by establishing the pass we could then establish the run. But hey, what do I know?

This makes as much sense as anything I've seen here for a while. I don't know about Chow and his running play, I do remember BYU tearing teams defenses apart with pass after pass that sooner or later got away from them. I remember games where BYU scored in the 40s, 50s and even higher. It didn't matter much that the other team got into the 30s when we had 20 points on them and 10 of their points came in the last quarter when Edwards was training his next years team. Those teams were fun to watch and that is an understatement. The other teams can have 3 yards and a cloud of dust, I want to be up where the air is clear.

Yup. Good old WAC. Especially before CSU and Wyoming and SDSU started being occasionally decent. And BAM. We had The Holiday Bowl. Then the WAC blew up and the "better" MWC got the Las Vegas Bowl. Then The MWC blew up and we got an assortment of worse bowls although Poinsettia was decent enough.



Against really crappy teams you don't need to set up anything.



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