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Jacob — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:58:37 +0000

Tonight Sandy and I went to the BYU verses Colorado State basketball game. My favorite team (blue) won, 92-70. It was my first basketball game that I’ve attended in nearly a year, and I really enjoyed it.

After the game, Sandy and I went by Wendy’s on the way home for some Frosties, at which point, the engineer in me discovered that the 99-cent small Frosty is the most economical. If you wanted a large Frosty, you would find that you could get more Frosty for less money by buying two small Frosties than one large Frosty.

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Jacob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:04:26 +0000

BYU’s mens’ basketball team is off to a great start. Their record is 5-1, with their only loss to the number 1 ranked team, but only after they knocked of the number 6 team. This record has helped BYU to become ranked in both the AP Top 25 poll and the USA Today/ESPN poll. In the AP poll BYU is ranked 21, and in the ESPN poll, they are ranked 23.

While BYU seems to be doing well, I am not yet convinced that this is the best BYU basketball team that I’ve ever seen. They seem solid, but I keep on waiting for something more magical.

Perhaps the success is in BYU’s starting lineup, who play very well together and are getting better with every game they play. I’m concerned though that the bench is kind of weak.

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Jacob — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:54:39 +0000

While BYU athletic administrators are out celebrating a men’s basketball win over Air Force in front of a sold-out crowd, hundreds of students are wishing they could have been a part of it all. BYU athletic’s postgame notes record that the game had the 23rd largest sell-out crowd in basketball history. But what did BYU do to sell the Marriott Center out? They spent the week selling tickets at a dollar a piece to anyone who wanted them. Then, when large student crowds showed up to view the game, they had to turn hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of them away because there were no seats left.

Anyone who has been around BYU men’s basketball knows the dedication of the student section. Long before the game begins, it is common to see the student section packed with fans eager to be the loudest in the house. Many student fans spend $40 or more on student-access-cards which allow them access to BYU sporting events. At today’s game, these card holders showed up expecting to be granted access as usual to the game, but many were disappointed when they were turned away at the doors. Those turned away were angry that they were not able to attend an event that they had already purchased access to. Access and seat availability is controlled by ticketing policy which determines how many tickets should be sold at various prices. The ticketing policy for today’s basketball event failed because it did not give access to those students who had purchased it.

I strongly recommend that the ticketing policy for future events be examined carefully to be fair to students and other fans. Some policy changes that could be considered are:

Increase the size of the student section,
Improve communications about seat availability,
Limit the number of tickets sold at promotional discounts.

Additionally, I recommend that the athletic administrators issue an apology for today’s ticketing failures and make efforts to improve future accommodations to dedicated student fans.

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More respect for the Cougars

Jacob — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:17:05 +0000

With just a couple of weeks into this year’s basketball season, I think the BYU Cougars deserve more respect. Although they only have played 4 games, their only loss has been to a team which is currently ranked first in some polls.

If the Cougars can stay diligent to winning for just a few more games, then I think they will find the respect that they deserve now. It is important to remember that BYU traditionally is a team which gets a lot better as the season progresses. They are starting warm now, and I think they are going to end hotter than lava.

BYU, I lava you.

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Gavinpants

Jacob — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:09:29 +0000

I have some friends who are friends with BYU basketball player Gavin MacGregor who got some play time tonight. From the game recap:

Walk-on Gavin MacGregor made his first career appearance in the first half. In the second half MacGregor scored his first points as a Cougar. MacGregor also blocked a shot.

Now apparently these friends have taken to calling Gavin, “Gavinpants.” I’m not sure exactly why, but I remember being around these friends when Gavin called on the telephone only to hear them shout, “Gavinpants.”

One of these friends blogged about the game and cheering for “Gavinpants” (worth the read), and I thought I would like to hear at least the parts where Gavin played, and I excerpted those parts in this mp3 file (about 1 minute).

One thing that impressed me generally about the game is the second half dominance by BYU. I’ve watched so many games where the first half was commanding, only to loose the commanding lead early in the second half. That didn’t happen with this game, and I’m glad.

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Jacob — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:04:30 +0000

I just read this from BYUCougars.com that describes just how difficult it will be to participate in the BYU vs. Houston men’s basketball NIT game tonight. Basically, unless you want to go down to Houston, the only ways you can be informed about the game is either listening to KSL radio, or watching the delayed and buggy game tracker stat thingy.

Normally, you can listen to KSL over the internet, but that won’t even happen tonight. It also wont be on TV at all, not even tape delayed.

I just want to express my disapointment that there isn’t any way for me to watch this very exciting game. I don’t know who is at fault, but you are not on my good list today.

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BYU apparel

Jacob — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:09:55 +0000

March madness is just around the corner. Unfortunately, when it comes to Basketball, March isn’t quite as fun because there are fewer home games. From now on (until next year), all my basketball will be on TV.

I was looking at BYU apparel (shirts and caps mostly) and found that Amazon.com has fairly competitive prices. I’m not looking into buying anything right now, but maybe next year I’ll get something.

Anyway, there is a nice BYU/UofU basketball rivalry on Thursday. I think that Utah was the last team to beat BYU, but that was only because so many of our players were sick. I’m making a victory cake, and anyone who wants to view the game is welcome over at my place to watch the game and eat cake. The game is a late one — it starts at about 10, but you are welcome over.

Update: BYU lost. Shoot.

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Jacob — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:14:07 +0000

Congradulations to BYU Men’s Basketball with their victory over New Mexico tonight. The win ends the regular season, with BYU in a tie for 2nd place in the Mountain West Conference.

The game tonight was one of the most exciting I’ve ever seen. President Monson even spoke at half time (which justifies skipping stake conference to go to the game).

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Jacob — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:08:15 +0000

BYU beat San Diego State University tonight with a score of 100 to 90. Good defense and good shooting seemed to be the key to tonight’s win. The officiating seemed mediocre at best, but it didn’t seem too favored.

This was an important win, as it only puts us a game and a half out of the conference lead. We are just going to need some luck now that San Diego State looses their next games.

Only two more home games left in the season. I should start looking now for someone to go with me.

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Jacob — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:56:08 +0000

It has been a pretty good little stretch for BYU athletics. The BYU men’s basketball team is on a winning streak, including a pair of road wins. It is shaping out to be a pretty good season. Today’s game against Air Force was exciting. It was pretty obvious that AFA was a good team, and I’m glad BYU came out on top. There were a lot of fans there, and the noice level was pretty high. The officiating was slightly better than it has been the last couple of games that I’ve seen.

Speaking of officiating, how does a ref at mid-court see a foul near the baseline when the ref just a few feet away didn’t. Either way you look at it, some one wasn’t doing their job. Either the closer ref isn’t seeing things that he should be, or the further away ref is making something up.

I didn’t see the volleyball game, but I heard it was pretty good. Especially since we are number 2 ranked, and we beat, in 4 games, number 1 ranked Pepperdine. If we can beat them again tonight, then we would have a pretty good reason to take their number 1 ranking.

The women’s basketball team beat the New Mexico team, who was three places higher than our team in the national rankings. This means the only team we have lost to all season long, is NC State, who is currently ranked in the 20s somewhere. We should see some improvement in the rankings, and maybe we can win out the season. That would be cool.

Finally, I saw that number 23 Iowa upset number 21 Michigan. While a upset like that is not that adnormal, the score of the game certainly upset a lot of people. Iowa killed Michigan 94 to 66. How do you blow out a ranked team by almost 30 points?

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