Rudy Joins the Church

Apparently his interest began when he was invited to attend a fireside when BYU last played there.

THAT ..... is very Kewl. Congratulations!!!!!

SpiffCoug wrote:
Apparently his interest began when he was invited to attend a fireside when BYU last played there.

Yes, I read the same thing. He was impressed with the players' testimonies and began to ask questions. Good on him, and good for the firesides.

Cougarfan87 wrote:

Apparently his interest began when he was invited to attend a fireside when BYU last played there.

Yes, I read the same thing. He was impressed with the players' testimonies and began to ask questions. Good on him, and good for the firesides.

Not only just because they held a fireside, but because he was personally called and invited to attend by Bronco.



I miss the fact that we no longer do firesides.

I was thinking about that. Would you be willing to give up some victories in exchange for people finding the gospel? I would. So maybe we should do more firesides.

Here's what will happen--Kalani is taking more risks in recruiting, so we will see some high-profile HC violations/suspensions/expulsions, and then the firesides will come back in response.

I think you are right. Maybe they need more firesides to reduce the risk of HC problems.

Also, BYU football never stopped doing firesides. Now they just aren't the night before the game.

Mars wrote:
Also, BYU football never stopped doing firesides. Now they just aren't the night before the game.

That was the original claim, what have been the exact dates of all the firesides, and who exactly is participating in them? I don't know, so honest question.

hawkwing wrote:

Also, BYU football never stopped doing firesides. Now they just aren't the night before the game.

That was the original claim, what have been the exact dates of all the firesides, and who exactly is participating in them? I don't know, so honest question.

Here were the May-June firesides with players and coaches last year:



Sunday, May 1 — East Lansing, Michigan

Sunday, May 15 — Montgomery, Ohio

Sunday, May 22 — San Clemente, California

Sunday, May 29 — Washington DC

Sunday, June 5 — Laie, Hawaii

Sunday, June 12 — Sandy, Utah

Sunday, June 26 — Eagle, Idaho



They were supposed to do alumni firesides before the road games, but I never heard of any of them actually taking place. The local alumni association for each road game was supposed to set it up, but I don't think any of them ever did--BYU tried to shift it from a football-team thing to an alumni association thing, and it fizzled out.

Yeah, I don't think off-season firesides are a worthwhile replacement to in-season firesides, and I don't think alumni firesides are anywhere near as effective as player firesides (even if they really did happen).



I just have a hard time believing that Rudy would have gotten baptized if instead of having the fireside with the players before the ND game we had a fireside in June with 1 or 2 players who happened to be nearby.



Maybe I'm wrong and we'll see these firesides do some good work though.