Tenn and BYU agree to home and home

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You may recall that BYU received some notoriety in Michael Lewis' The Blind Side. Michael Oher was a Dumpster fire academically and so Ed Orgeron used "The Great Mormon Grade Grab" to get him eligible. The process was going online to BYU's site, taking a "course" which usually involved reading a paper or speech like the Gettysburg Address, and then answering some questions. That one exercise would allow them to replace one of Oher's Fs with an A. The NCAA shut it down.

BYU had another minor scrape when they had a running back back in the late 1990s. The NCAA was going to suspend him academically because he was taking remedial math and the NCAA said the players had to be taking courses towards a degree program, and most schools don't allow remedial courses to count. But they did at BYU, so they got some bad press over that.

Overall, BYU is a pretty good teaching school. It doesn't focus much on research, but rather on the teaching part. It has very good accounting and law schools. So it's not as far off the beaten path as say Liberty. It's much closer to Baylor and TCU and SMU as religious schools go. But because there is a lot of misunderstanding about Mormons in general, BYU takes a beating.

 

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A lot of that has to do with conference ties. BYU has had good enough teams to go to the Citrus but the MWC champ plays in the Vegas bowl.

They've had five 10-win teams in the last decade and they only ever play 13.

Most of it has to do with them being irrelevant in the college landscape.

 

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One final note. Lavell Edwards, who recently passed away, may have been the most influential coach of the last 50 years. BYU in the late 60s and 70s really mastered the passing offense when most schools still ascribed to the Woody Hayes "why would I pass. Three things could happen and two are bad." The change of the game from run predominant to pass dominant was really traced to him.

His Heisman Trophy winner, Ty Detmer, is now offensive coordinator at BYU after a lengthy successful career in a Texas high school.

One of the things BYU taught their receivers which made Detmer so successful, and so different from other teams, is that when the pocket breaks down, most teams would train their receivers to come back to the quarterback. BYU taught the opposite. They would turn upfield and Detmer would throw a 40 yard pass off his back foot and the receiver would run 30 yards for a touchdown. Broke a lot of hearts that way--including Miami in 1990.

 

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One final note. Lavell Edwards, who recently passed away, may have been the most influential coach of the last 50 years. BYU in the late 60s and 70s really mastered the passing offense when most schools still ascribed to the Woody Hayes "why would I pass. Three things could happen and two are bad." The change of the game from run predominant to pass dominant was really traced to him.

His Heisman Trophy winner, Ty Detmer, is now offensive coordinator at BYU after a lengthy successful career in a Texas high school.

One of the things BYU taught their receivers which made Detmer so successful, and so different from other teams, is that when the pocket breaks down, most teams would train their receivers to come back to the quarterback. BYU taught the opposite. They would turn upfield and Detmer would throw a 40 yard pass off his back foot and the receiver would run 30 yards for a touchdown. Broke a lot of hearts that way--including Miami in 1990.

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