If Bronco and Heaps are going to win a National

Championship in 2-3 years, then BYU needs to have killer instinct.



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Seven signs that BYU will have developed killer instinct, and no it is not



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but still worth reading.

Not very insightful in my opinion. I probably would have preferred the J-I-M-M-E-R article.



Basically says, score more points than the other team, get defensive stops, and positive TO margins.

Schedule two or three home wins against BCS opponents in 2012 or hope Jake stays around for 2013. I think Arizona and Syracuse or that caliber opponent would be ideal.



Oregon St

Hawaii

Arizona

@Boise

bye

Utah St

@Georgia Tech

@Notre Dame

FCS team

@SJSU

Syracuse

@NMSU

bye

@ Utah (move to play opposite the ND-USC game)



Recruit some JC corners and safeties and hope Sampson works out and is the real deal.



I think they could do it.

CougarClaw wrote:
Basically says, score more points than the other team, get defensive stops, and positive TO margins.

I think you should read it again. You have inaccurately over simplified this.



This isn't about how to win games, and therefore, championships. It is about developing the attitude and mindset of champions, which reflects itself in subtle ways on the field.

It's an attitude that was present in the teams of the late 70s and early 80s It was a time when BYU didn't have behemouth linemen or great talent at most positions. They were undersize and under speed, but but never out hustled or out coached. They had desire, they had heart, and they won big. They could score a lot of points very quickly, or they could pick a defense apart. They scored so fast that the defense would spend way too much time on the field, but still shut down opponents. They won because they had a killer attitude. If this team develops that same attitude, they will be scary good. Who knows what they might accomplish?

bigbluepuma wrote:
It's an attitude that was present in the teams of the late 70s and early 80s It was a time when BYU didn't have behemouth linemen or great talent at most positions. They were undersize and under speed, but but never out hustled or out coached. They had desire, they had heart, and they won big. They could score a lot of points very quickly, or they could pick a defense apart. They scored so fast that the defense would spend way too much time on the field, but still shut down opponents. They won because they had a killer attitude. If this team develops that same attitude, they will be scary good. Who knows what they might accomplish?

Well said.



It must be consistent all year, too. If you watch the BYU-Miami game from 1990, you see a dominating defense that held the opponent to 21 points despite the offense having 6 turnovers. I wonder how that defense could look so good against the #1 team, but play so bad against Oregon and Hawaii and Texas A&M later that year.

I think what will happen is the final week of the season with a top ranking we will lose a star player and thus the goal.





For real irony i bet the year BYU contends for a NC will also be the 1st year of a playoff



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Y12 wrote:

It's an attitude that was present in the teams of the late 70s and early 80s It was a time when BYU didn't have behemouth linemen or great talent at most positions. They were undersize and under speed, but but never out hustled or out coached. They had desire, they had heart, and they won big. They could score a lot of points very quickly, or they could pick a defense apart. They scored so fast that the defense would spend way too much time on the field, but still shut down opponents. They won because they had a killer attitude. If this team develops that same attitude, they will be scary good. Who knows what they might accomplish?

Well said.



It must be consistent all year, too. If you watch the BYU-Miami game from 1990, you see a dominating defense that held the opponent to 21 points despite the offense having 6 turnovers. I wonder how that defense could look so good against the #1 team, but play so bad against Oregon and Hawaii and Texas A&M later that year.

My guess would be the toll of injuries vs a lack of depth and opponents having film to look at to find weaknesses to target - the usual suspects.

Y12 wrote:

It's an attitude that was present in the teams of the late 70s and early 80s It was a time when BYU didn't have behemoth linemen or great talent at most positions. They were undersize and under speed, but but never out hustled or out coached. They had desire, they had heart, and they won big. They could score a lot of points very quickly, or they could pick a defense apart. They scored so fast that the defense would spend way too much time on the field, but still shut down opponents. They won because they had a killer attitude. If this team develops that same attitude, they will be scary good. Who knows what they might accomplish?

Well said.



It must be consistent all year, too. If you watch the BYU-Miami game from 1990, you see a dominating defense that held the opponent to 21 points despite the offense having 6 turnovers. I wonder how that defense could look so good against the #1 team, but play so bad against Oregon and Hawaii and Texas A&M later that year.

I think that Hawaii can be attributed to the same thing as the recent UNM basketball game: distraction. Distraction trumps everything for a sports team. They lose all focus, and so all ability to play the game to win.



I think the TA&M game can be, at least to some degree, attributed to overconfidence and disappointment. They wanted a "better" match up than what they perceived A&M to be. They went in being unmotivated, and met a very motivated buzz saw. A&M was way better than expected, and they had something to prove. BYU was in no mental or emotional state to deal with it.





A large portion of every sports contest is emotional and mental preparedness for the game at hand. That is why coaches try real hard to keep players from looking ahead to a big game and overlooking a "lesser" opponent. No matter how hard a coach works on preparation, however, distractions can take a team completely out of their game. That is why you can never judge what is coming in future games solly on what happened at any particular game. That's why the games are played on the field, not in forums.



I don't know what to say about Oregon.