I'm very pleased to announce that I have finished the initial programming of a new and completely redesigned CougarCorner Prediction game. I have been rushing to get it finished in time to allow anyone who wants to join to do so, so there may be...
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First 2 games for 2021 season are added to the game. I have noticed I have been having some database issues, due to a lack of resources. So be patient if it goes slow or needs to reload.
This is incredibly disappointing. We're used to seeing this the other way around. LDS kid, just off his mission, and to Utah ? With the transfer portal it is somewhat easy to just go grab another...
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I'm disappointed but not surprised. The rumors of Wahlin transferring have been circulating for months. Pope has not endeared himself to the Timpview crowd: Ereckson, Hansen, and Wahlin have all transferred. One of the criticisms of Dave Rose is...
One of the biggest concerns that I have about Mark Pope as head coach is whether he has a vision for how to build a program rather than just using the transfer portal as a year-to-year hope.
My concern is elevated once again with rumors that I have...
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I wish I knew how good the kid is. Maybe he is WCC good but not Big12 good. I just don't know.
Marquette Forward Keeyan Itejere is in the Transfer Portal — Will BYU Pursue?
Potential BYU Basketball Transfer Targets
Marquette forward Keeyan Itejere is LDS and has entered the transfer portal. He's supposedly very...
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2 guards who can create their own shot. That should be a big hlep plus a big. Another 5? I think would Stewart could give up his scholarship and stay. Waterman should go. He won't get many minutes.
BYU gets a 4 star recruit for the 2024 season! He's a 6-6/6-7 PF out of Idaho Falls. Probably pretty raw and at that height really needs to develop some solid guard skills and ideally play the 3/SF...
Madsen was just hired by California. I was hoping he'd come to BYU.
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Yeah, but Pope would have to leave or be fired first so Madsen would have to wait. I do wonder how things would have turned out if Madsen had been hired instead of Pope. I think Pope previously being an assistant at BYU made him a shoe-in. Plus Pope...
I love to analyze data and trends. It's what I do for a living. With sports it's easy to get passionate and to give too much credit or too much blame with knee jerk reactions. How has Pope faired in his 3+ seasons?
First, I want to take a look back...
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Pope did not do well as well as he needed to do in the portal. We needed a big man. Full stop. While Atiki and Fous made progress, they are still works in progress. Coaching cost us several games—the failures repeatedly to handle out of bounds and...
I'm assuming that BYU's basketball season is over. Out of the WCC tournament. At least they won a game against a higher seed (LMU). I know Gonzaga is a juggernaut, but it is still disappointing that in 12 years in the WCC BYU didn't win a regular...
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Really good article from Vanquish The Foe about reviewing Mark Pope's first 4 years. The author essentially does everything that I did in an earlier post. Here are a couple things that stood out to me:
I figure that we don't need a new topic for each individual basketball game. So I'll just start a new one and continue to post in here for the duration of the season.
First up, the Idaho St. game. Wow, how we struggled. Someone is going to have to...
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The team never quit on themselves or Pope. Some off season hopes: Atiki learns how to score around the basket and can keep his feet when he rebounds. Pope gets a real center. Saunders ups his three point shooting. Hall too. Actually Pope gets two...
There's an article from bustingbrackets.com titled NCAA Basketball: 10 coaches that may get fired or leave after 2022-23. I'm not going to link to the article because it's a slideshow and I hate those. But a legend on Reddit put the list out there:...
It will take a miracle for BYU to go dancing this year and with BYU headed to the Big12 those trips are going to become even more sparse.
I’m no longer a Pope fan. His best team was Dave Rose’s guys.
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No longer ? Were you ever?
I'm not being negative toward you, just asking for a clarification. I don't remember you ever writing a positive post about Mark Pope. Of course, it's been nearly four years since he was named head coach, so you may have...
I meant to do this before conference play started, but I was out of town. BYU is currently #108 with a 9-5 record against Div 1 teams. IMO a team generally needs to be top 35 to be safe to get an at-large bid. The below picture shows our current...
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Our only chance for the NCAA is to win the WCC tournament; something we've never done.
We can’t beat LMU. Pray for a miracle in March, folks, otherwise we’ll be lucky to go to the NIT.
Well…it’s pretty quite over here. I assume that’s because we’re all underwhelmed by the team this year. Already looking like it will be a long season. I don’t think we go dancing and we will be lucky to make the NIT.
I like that we beat Creighton,...
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They seem to be playing better. Next week will be a big indicator of where they are at.
*Barcello (Graduation) - You will be missed! Very efficient shooter, not quite the Jimmer needed at times, but he turned out a lot better than I thought he would be when he first stepped foot onto campus....
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Knell is injured. He may be out for the season or he may be back in February depending on how the games go through January.
I really like Hall. He and Saunders both look good, imho.
I want to like Robinson. I think he can be a good player but he...
Three 4-Star Basketball Recruits Visit BYU During Baylor Weekend
Wow, pretty cool that we had three 4 start recruits on campus at the same time. You should seriously check out the link to the article which has some fun photos of each of them from...
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You can scratch Aaron Clark off the list. He has narrowed his choices to Miami and Wake Forest.
Great recruiter (though we can’t seem to get any shooters), good at developing bigs, but bad at offense and getting his guys ready for games. I’ve never seen a more stagnant offense. The last time I saw an offense...
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Pope lost his assistant to a lateral move and two returning starters. All is not well with Pope.
My current impression of Pope is that he’s a great, optimistic raw-raw guy, but not an X’s and O’s guy. The revolving door of talent, stagnant offense,...
Tough game to watch last night. The refing was consistently bad. Some of the calls were real head scratchers. I am not sure they dictated the course of the game, but they certainly hurt BYU at least. Where the game was won, I think, was with San...
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