Cougar Corner Blog

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Bryan Kehl - Shinning in Spotlight

Although it comes as no surprise to BYU fans, Bryan Kehl is really making a name for himself at the NFL Combine. Kehl has been a fan favorite for years while racking up awards and accolades at BYU, but now NFL fans are seeing what he has to offer.

Kehl has found himself as a top performer in 40-yard dash | Bench press | Vertical jump | Broad jump | 3-cone drill | 20-yard shuttle.

See his profile here: [link] nfl.com

Labels: Bryan Kehl, NFL Draft

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DirecTV Picks Up the MTN

It's official. After years of waiting, working the phones and email, we, as fans, finally got through to DirecTV and made them realize it was worth it to them to carry the MTN. Terms of the agreement stated that DirecTV would begin to carry the MTN no later than Sept. 1st, 2008. Just in time for football!

I want to thank all the readers who utilized the auto-generated email to the MTN. Every little bit helped in making this happen.

For me, I am already a subscriber to DirecTV, so I look forward to receiving the MTN. Rumor is that the channel will be available to subscribers in the MWC footprint in a basic package, and to outsiders in the sports tier. However, nothing is official about channel and package.

Labels: DirecTV, The MTN

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Jaime Hill Promoted to DC

BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall has turned over the keys to the defense to secondary coach Jaimie Hill.

This is great news for the Cougars. Hill has proven himself to be a great asset to BYU when he came in 2 years ago and turned a porous secondary into one of the best squads in the MWC, and one that could shut down high powered Oregon's offense in the 2006 Las Vegas Bowl, as well as UCLA in 2007.

This will also provide some much needed relief for Bronco, who had been acting as both Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator. Both of which are extremely difficult tasks, combined would be a great deal of work.

This also helps ensure that we will retain the services of Jaime Hill, where there had been some worry by fans that a coach of his stature and ability would be highly sought after by BCS schools.

Labels: Coaching, Defense, Football

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

New Cougar Fantasy Prediction Game

CougarCorner.com is very pleased to announce the completion and release of a new BYU Cougars fantasy prediction game. The game will allow CougarCorner.com users (registration is completely free) to predict results from upcoming Cougar games. Those predicting correctly will score points based on how well they do. Users will earn and gain points throughout the season.

As you register you can choose to be part of a "Prediction Group" to compete with your friends, or just join the default 'Open' group to compete against anyone else who doesn't join a group.

We hope that this will be a fantastic game to bring Cougar fans together.

Enjoy the fun at: CougarCorner.com

Labels: Fantasy Game, Football, Predictions

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Friday, August 17, 2007

FUI Breaks a Big One

Fui Vakapuna, who will no doubt be breaking several large runs this year shows his stuff in today's practice session.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

BYU to Retire #14

BYU to Honor Gifford Nielsen and Ty Detmer

In conversations with Tom Holmoe, both at the Big Blue Bash (see previous post) and over email, I have learned that BYU will officially retire the jerseys of Ty Detmer and Gifford Nielsen, both of which played as #14. In addition to retiring these jerseys, BYU will retire the #14.

Corby Hodgkiss, who currently wears #14 will be allowed to continue to use it until his playing days are done, afterwhich time the #14 will never be used again.

Labels: Football, Gifford Nielsen, Ty Detmer

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Big Blue Bash

I attended the Big Blue Bash tonight, held in Salt Lake City at the Sheraton Hotel. The evening began with Blaine Fowler doing some random Cougar Trivia while everyone got in, got some food, and had a chance to meet with Max Hall and Paul Tidwell at one table and Brian Kehl and Eric Drage at another table.

I met first with Max Hall and Paul Tidwell. I asked how the offense was going to do this year and coach Tidwell immediately said that only Max Hall could answer that. Max said the offense was going to be good. I asked him how many points they would average this year. Hall replied at least 24. I went on to ask him what defensive squad would be his biggest challenge this year. Without a moments hesitation he said BYUs was the toughest defense he was going to have to play against this year.

Later I spoke with Eric Drage and Bryan Kehl. I was amazed at how affiable Drage was and he and I spoke for several minutes. He's very invested in the program and in Bronco. I almost asked him if he was Cruiser. As for Kehl I asked him how many points per game his defense was going to give up, and he responded 10 with a twinkle in his eye. I went on to ask him which team they play this year would provide the best offense. He said, "UCLA is going to have a good offense, and so will Utah. Nah, the best offense we will face this year will be whichever BCS school we play in a BCS Bowl game in January."

The best part is, later that night when Kehl was speaking to the assembled Cougar faithful, he recounted our conversation. Everyone cheered his comments of playing in a BCS Bowl this year.

The program went on to include speeches by Greg Wrubell, Tom Holmoe, Blaine Fowler, Paul Tidwell, Eric Drage, James Dye, Max Hall and Bryan Kehl. They played video highlights between each speaker, mainly of the Utah game. They also showed the 'wear blue' commercial, as well as a new 2 minute video of Bronco speaking to students urging them to give their best always.