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Dec 2, 2024
12:11:23pm
xgbs Contributor
My takes are weak? Seriously? You: A-Rod can't Recruit! A-rod:
Hold my comparison sheet between QBs I got in the last two years and those I "lost".

As for all your other points:

2. He seems to not be able to motivate the offense in big games.

Worst take ever. Are you even watching the same games!? Listen, everyone looks slow and listless when the other side is better prepared, bigger sized, or is showing better execution. But to call it a lack of MOTIVATION!? Wrong. And patently insulting to the players. You think they are a bunch of lazy kids who won't get off their buts until a coach spit screams at them or something? Just absurd.

Further, how is that A-rod's job? What is he supposed to do? Send angry texts to their Ipads on the sideline?

3. Never has this been more on full display than this season with some of the highest stakes games BYU has ever played in program history.

Hmph. So you think the player's "motivation" was lower this year than in 1990 vs. Texas A&M, or how about vs. Oregon, same year? Those games were historically high stakes. BYU could have won another national championship with wins in those two games. Both of them MUCH bigger stakes, and BYU lost. But somehow those players had more motivation that this year's squad? EVEN IF you could measure such a thing, it would probably be different than you think. But to simply throw it out as if this is an clear fact? Again, absurd.
Same comparisons could be made for games in 1996. Do you really think BYU was MORE MOTIVATED against KSU in the cotton bowl than they were this year? Or in the Oklahoma State game? Do you think BYU lacked motivation in the rivalry game? Sheesh...the level... (gonna blow a blood vessel here!)

4. Arod’s offense is so boring now to watch

I find winning entertaining. Sorry Giff's not back bombing 50 yarders. Sorry we aren't in the no-defense WAC any more. Sorry you didn't get Mike Leach as the BYU coach--he would have recruited sooooo much better.

5. and predictable

Sure. Tell that to SMU after Miles Davis ran the game-winning clip. Or to Baylor's or even Houston's offense that didn't see Retzlaff running to the endzone. Or to UCF's offense that was nothing short of bamboozled the whole game. You can come back with Kansas and ASU, but in both of those games the problem was not play-calling, it was mis-execution. Ask the players. They repeatedly say: It is NOT on A-rod, if we can execute, his calls are excellent. Does he make the best call every time? No, but I much prefer him over Norm Chow, no matter how much more "exciting" that offense was.

6. He seems complacent.

Clairvoyance on your part has no end. How would you know if this dude is complacent? If that were true, why hasn't Kalani fired him. He fired Ty Detmer. That had to be a tough move to make in the spotlight of fandom. Firing A-rod would be much easier.

7. and I feel the trajectory has been declining since 2021

Maybe you could make that case exactly one year ago, but doing so was idiotic then because Slovis injury/Retzlaff inexperience/O-line issues clouded the picture. It's even more nonsensical now as demonstrated by the 10-2 record.

8. We’ve NEVER had a lower rated group of QBs in waiting (and it shows) and it’s a sad state vs BYUs proud tradition at that position and expectation of high powered offenses.

And the hyperbole continues. Hard to argue from silence. Gerry Bohannon won a big 12 title. Fully back from injury. Absurd to call him lower rated that QBs of the past. I'd take him 1000 times out of 1000 over Baylor Romney, Riley Nelson, Jake Heaps, or even Jaron Hall as a freshman.

9. This is what drives the urgency in my mind. We can’t just pat ourselves on the back for a “good enough” season anymore...

Because 10-2 isn't good enough? Dude. Join another fanbase. One that won't disappoint you as much. Perhaps the winningest program in all of college football would do for you: Ohio State. Their record this year is... oh wait.
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