BYU-UNM for a 3 Seed?

kjjson wrote:

So, uhh, is anyone else PISSED that Versus and DirecTV are STILL screwing the fans over???

Yes, but in this case, it actually worked in my favor as I was able to further justify getting tickets to this game to my wife since: "We can't watch it at home".

I still have cable and get all the right chanels 8) . Thought once or twice about going back to satelite, but glad I haven't yet.

And that'd be great and all, but that would also mean I'd have to bring myself to live close enough to the State of Utah to be within the Mtn cable footprint, which I just can't do that. School was long enough!

Oh, I know. The state of Utah is HORRIBLE! I hate the low crime rate, family and conservative values, and knowing my neighbors. It's just terrible.

Both SDSU and UNM have the potential of being tough games for us. I'm worried that after pulling off wins this week our guys will be so worn out that they won't have much left in the tank for Utah similar to what we did the other week against UNLV.

Schmoe wrote:
Oh, I know. The state of Utah is HORRIBLE! I hate the low crime rate, family and conservative values, and knowing my neighbors. It's just terrible.

I'm with you 100%

kitic77 wrote:

craigoscarson wrote:
Before and after unm there's a lot of hoops to be played. UNLV made the mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket and dropped 3 after their performance against us.

Losing to UNM doesn't hurt us as bad as losing to anyone else. I'd love to beat UNM (and I think we will) but losing any of the rest of our remaining games would hurt worse (seedings wise)



I think we have a shot to win out, but there's more to this season than UNM at home. We need a good showing in the conf tourney, wins against sdsu , @utah, @tcu etc.



A 3 seed is in sight but we gotta win em all, I just hope we dont' have the same type of letdown that UNLV had after their big win.

sdsu has the horses inside; I think we're in for a game on wednesday... depending on what sdsu team shows up

UNLV focused on Byu all year, then lost 3. TCU focused on BYU in football all year, then lost to :utard: . I think (I certainly hope) that BYU isn't putting that kind of focus on UNM. Rose should have them ready for SDSU, and for next week.

TCU killed Utah worse than they beat us in football. Now, last year that would be case where they lost to Utah, but I don't think losing a 3-pt game was due to a let-down because of playing us.

I thought it would be obvious that I was referring to last year. Guess not. Certainly that wasn't the only reason for the :utard: loss, but if they had played @ RES anywhere near as well as they played BYU, they would have stomped all over them. I think they had a major letdown after defeating BYU.

Schmoe wrote:
Oh, I know. The state of Utah is HORRIBLE! I hate the low crime rate, family and conservative values, and knowing my neighbors. It's just terrible.

It's also pretty bad being around all the horrible mountains, skiing, snow mobiling, hunting, fishing, hiking, national parks etc. I don't know how I can take it any longer. :roll:

Yeah, but theyrz awl em MARMUNS evverwhehr!!!



(Okay, so the South is rubbing off on me a bit).



:P

bigbluepuma wrote:

bigbluepuma wrote:

Before and after unm there's a lot of hoops to be played. UNLV made the mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket and dropped 3 after their performance against us.

Losing to UNM doesn't hurt us as bad as losing to anyone else. I'd love to beat UNM (and I think we will) but losing any of the rest of our remaining games would hurt worse (seedings wise)



I think we have a shot to win out, but there's more to this season than UNM at home. We need a good showing in the conf tourney, wins against sdsu , @utah, @tcu etc.



A 3 seed is in sight but we gotta win em all, I just hope we dont' have the same type of letdown that UNLV had after their big win.

sdsu has the horses inside; I think we're in for a game on wednesday... depending on what sdsu team shows up

UNLV focused on Byu all year, then lost 3. TCU focused on BYU in football all year, then lost to :utard: . I think (I certainly hope) that BYU isn't putting that kind of focus on UNM. Rose should have them ready for SDSU, and for next week.

TCU killed Utah worse than they beat us in football. Now, last year that would be case where they lost to Utah, but I don't think losing a 3-pt game was due to a let-down because of playing us.

I thought it would be obvious that I was referring to last year. Guess not. Certainly that wasn't the only reason for the :utard: loss, but if they had played @ RES anywhere near as well as they played BYU, they would have stomped all over them. I think they had a major letdown after defeating BYU.

I wasn't sure. You started off referencing UNLV who beat us and then lost three in a row, which happened this year. TCU did focus on us, but they had two games between ours and when they played Utah. They beat Wyo 54-7 the week after and UNLV 44-14 before losing to Utah 13-10. So unless they had a three-week delayed let down...



But yes, had they played against Utah on the road like they played us at home, they would have stomped all over them, much like they did this past year. But if you are saying that teams focus too much on the BYU game that it becomes a detriment to the rest of their season, then I fully agree.

kitic77 wrote:
...if you are saying that teams focus too much on the BYU game that it becomes a detriment to the rest of their season, then I fully agree.

...I mean, all the focus I put on BYU definitely becomes a detriment to the rest of my year...

:lol: ;) :crazy:

Dcr36 wrote:

(hoping for a Wake Forest type atmosphere)

That game was great (crowd-wise). I was expecting some chairs to fly after the 4th crap officiating call in like 1 minute's time.

I was at the Wake Forest game also, best atmostphere I have ever seen at the MC. We got there like 3 hours early and acutally walked passed the team as they were walking to the locker room, they definitly had their game faces on. Hopefully it will be rocking on Saturday, UNLV this year was great also, stood for most of the game without being told to sit down so thats good.

GolfDiveNCougs wrote:
So, uhh, is anyone else PISSED that Versus and DirecTV are STILL screwing the fans over???

I have sympathy for you, I really do. But as a Dish Network guy I couldn't be happier that I finally get to watch some games! 3 in a row actually! SDSU, New Mexico and Utah are all available on Dish, and all in HD!!

craigoscarson wrote:
The reason we do so well against SDSU in spite of their bigs, is that the zone defense is their achilles heal. They can't shoot outside and our zone has given them trouble. If they hit shots (which they won't in the MC) then we could be in trouble. If not, they simply will not have much success trying to pound the ball inside vs a zone d.

UNM has shooters and our zone d hasn't proven as effective against them. I'd still zone them for a portion of the game so that dairese gairy doesn't think he can just drive to the hoop unopposed.



Both games are huge, and both are games that we potentially would could lose; but it is the Marriott Center and we certainly will be favored. We dont' have to play the best game of our season to win, but we can't play our worst. SDSU and UNM might have to play their best games to beat us and I dont' see that happening in Provo (but I wont' exhale til after the weekend)



There is little doubt that this is the biggest weekend for BYU in recent memory.

the zone d strikes again; sdsu would have to shoot lights out to win after halftime

I was sad that I didn't get a chance to see one bit of the game tonight, but from the looks of the final score I guess I was wrong, but I guess I can also say that I've never been more glad to be wrong. I never claimed that SDSU would win. I just figured that it'd be a really close tight game all the way to the end. I guess I'll have to record it when the mtn. re shows it sometime in the next few days. Way to go Cougs!

jmvcougar wrote:
I was sad that I didn't get a chance to see one bit of the game tonight, but from the looks of the final score I guess I was wrong, but I guess I can also say that I've never been more glad to be wrong. I never claimed that SDSU would win. I just figured that it'd be a really close tight game all the way to the end. I guess I'll have to record it when the mtn. re shows it sometime in the next few days. Way to go Cougs!

Not to pick on you, Jmv, but please no one ever use this phrasing ever again. It's very old and tired.



Go Cougs!

Schmoe wrote:

I was sad that I didn't get a chance to see one bit of the game tonight, but from the looks of the final score I guess I was wrong, but I guess I can also say that I've never been more glad to be wrong. I never claimed that SDSU would win. I just figured that it'd be a really close tight game all the way to the end. I guess I'll have to record it when the mtn. re shows it sometime in the next few days. Way to go Cougs!

Not to pick on you, Jmv, but please no one ever use this phrasing ever again. It's very old and tired.



Go Cougs!

Haha alright but I'm just sayin'.