About this site
The site is a place for true blue fans to enjoy the perspectives and analysis from players they have cheered for from the stands. I -Quinn Gooch- founded the site and began writing just to off load knowledge and information about the game I love. The thing that sets this site apart form other places is the positive outlook, the in-depth knowledge and perspectives that you can’t get anywhere else.
I hope you enjoy the commentary, and please leave your comments and insights. They are read and enjoyed by thousands.
First off, thank you for the insightful information.
Second, having never been a part of a football program, I was wondering if you could go into a little detail as to what is on the game preparation DVDs and other prep materials. Are they posistion specific? (I would assume so) What are the athletes asked/required to do as homework, etc.?
Thanks.
Check the Q&A page for answers to questions.
call an ambulance!!….nice Quinn, I never knew you were such an ambitious writer. good work, seriously.
Nice Gooch, nice. It’s good to see you are alive old friend…
Great Job! I am really excited to read your insights throughout this season. I have really been impressed with what I have read so far!
I really like your insight, it is as if you actually played football at one time.
I absolutely love how intensive the informaion is on this site. This is now a website that I check mulitiple times a day for updates. Thanks Gooch
Gooch, I absolutely love this site. You are providing detail and context that I don’t get anywhere else. Thanks.
quinn, great site!! its great to get a former players perspective on the game and greatness that is BYU FOOTBALL!!
Quinn -
Would you mind giving us a brief rundown of “cover 2″ and “cover 3″ and some of the other flavors of zone that BYU and other teams play?
Explain which coverages involve LB’s dropping into short zones and safeties helping the CB’s over the top, and what parts of the field the 4 DB’s cover under each flavor.
Thanks.
Quinn,
As a female football fan, thanks for the great blog! As a member of the “gentler” sex, I never got to play football but I love college football season even more than my husband does! (Me:”Sweetie, turn off the videogame!” Husband: “Why?” Me: “The Ohio State game is on! It has national championship implications!” (though not anymore) Husband: “You’re strange.”).
As someone who never got to get as close to the game as I would have loved to, it’s great to read the expertise from someone who did!
Keep it up!
Great Work Quinn, Keep it up…I’ve always thought that the message boards should have some feedback from people that truly know how it is….but i rather enjoy all the speculation nonetheless.
Quinn,
Love the blog and thanks for answering previous questions of mine. I do have a couple general comments about the site. First, it’s time for a different picture of yourself. The snowcone stained jersey does nothing for you and half of your head is mission. Surely, you have a better pic in your archives! Also, your blog is a little hard to navigate. I don’t have any suggestions on exactly what to do but I know others have complained about this issue. Other than these two minor issues, I love the blog and really enjoy your insight.
Great site! Love it . . .
Any way to change the password to something I can remember more easily?
Thanks!
Lowell Castleton
Great work Quinn!! This site is awesome!! Have you been playing any softball? I still love those Puma shoes you wore to the game. Good thing you are a nice guy as I probably did miss one or two of the strikes you threw
Quinn,
What did you think of Bronco’s comments on scaling back the playbook and using less plays? It made me a little crazy! Also you mentioned that Max Hall needs to spread it to more recievers. What happened to spreading the ball around and who would he though it to? It seemed like there was a lot of pretty good recievers on that 2006 team that John Beck would through to and tons of people were catching balls. Do they play other people besides Collie, Pitta, Reid and Unga? Those complimentary recievers seem to be non-existent. Certainly not the 6-9 receivers that you would like to see! What are your thoughts on that?
I just decided to jump on to your blog after listening to David Locke and hearing you on the show. I like your insights!
Sorry I kept spelling throw wrong and didn’t notice it until my comment was already posted.
Quinn,
A couple more things. Are we ever going to get DB’s in the face of the receivers? Simple math tells me that if you have a third and 10 situation and you give the guy a 13 yard cushion, your odds aren’t good for stopping them from getting the first down. That has driven me nuts for so long and I never understood why teams didn’t just run 7-yard hitches all the way down the field. How can they change that? I like the odds of making the QB beat us long on occassion. Thats not a very high percentage play and I know we don’t have a ton of speed but that cushion is crazy!
Quinn, as a former player and current fan i find it difficult to get my football fix. Talk radio wears me out most of the time but i listen anyway because i need my fix. This is a great site. keep up the good work.
I agree. Very, very impressive sight! I’m sick an tired of reading the crud on Cougarboard that people post who have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for everything!
I’m new to this site, today, and earlier I came across a paage I could buy a tee shirt with an oval Y and the haka on the back, now I can’t find it. great website also. I would like to buy a couple shirts
Hey Quinn and crew,
I want to say thanks so much for this site, it is awesome. Great insight from former players. I have a feeling that I will be spending a lot of time on this site!
Quinn,
Can you report any details that you have about Austin Collie’s status? IS he going Pro? Any talk of him staying? What can you tell us about this. Have you talked to him?
By the way, I love the site! Great work!
It is so sad to see the ripping. We were all distraught at what was going on with Coach Crowton, and now how can Coach M have football be #5. I was sad to see what happened in Vegas, but I will always stick with my team.
Quinn and Crew,
What do you think went wrong in Vegas and with the team in the second half of the year? How much of an impact do you think the Jacobson will have in his return. Do you know of anybody else that is getting back from a mission that should be making an impact next year? Especially on defernse?
Thanks, Corwin Hudson
The new banner for your newly designed blog still says “arthemia” … which if i’m not mistake is the design name for the template you changed to. Did I just catch it at a bad time, will the blog still be called Deep Shades of Blue?
Hey – can you guys start a forum? I’m sick of the stupidness that is cougarboard.
Aaron,
What do you want from a forum? Do you want to start your own dialogue outside just commenting on the posts? There is generally pretty good discussion running through the comments.
Define your expectations and we will deliver.
Forums are tricky because of the time needed to manage them. The reason there are so many joker on Cougarboard is because it’s so big that no one can monitor the content.
This suck needs to some significant cash flow before I can donate that kind of time.
Leave some comments and sign up for the RSS comments and you’ll get an email when someone responds to the same article as you. Then the conversation continues.
Hey guys,
In light of the Te’o dismissal, I think it would be interesting to see how Bronco handles a situation like this. Obviously, we don’t need to call out Te’o’s situation specifically, but I am sure you guys saw this happen before. how does Bronco address the player? how does he tell the team? how does the team react to the situation and to the player? What are the options for the player?
This is unfortunate and I am sure Bronco has given him chances (rather than just dismiss him as a rapid response). I am just curious to know how this all works.
thanks
You know, I just found this site yesterday and I am greatly impressed.
I think the thing I like is that you guys monitor the comments so that I don’t have to read stupid board postings and Ute trollers (it’s fun during that week but have you ever read the comments section on the SL Trib?) This is a much more intelligent look at cougar football and one which I appreciate given how much daggum time I spend following it.
I have a suggestion you might consider to increase following and potential revenue. If you could team up with Cougarfan.com and have a page that daily has just about every single new article on the web about Cougar sports and then combine that with your comments and insights as well as individual shots from guest writers, like you did with JoBeck, then I really think this would be my one stop shop for cougar sports.
I seriously check cougarfan once or twice a day, even off-season and there are quite a few of us out here that do this – but that site is pretty boring beyond the links.
This is a very nice website with a ton of potential. It’s definitely a premium product due to the fact that it is you guys who are producing it. There are plenty of real old and newly old cougs that we would love to hear their side of the stories we all participated in and remember so well. And now that you’re picking up sponsors like Fillmore I think you guys have a good thing going.
This is a very unique niche market you have found. There are a lot of us, we are fiercely loyal, incredibly interested and with a product this good we will be back and back and back some more.
Please keep it up Quinn. I know I’ll support your sponsors just to continue to have this website available.
Dear Quinn, Markell, and Ben
I love this site especially getting such great insite from former players. Hey, I am sure you have many former players who reply and respond to the various posts. I would love to know if a former player is responding. I know you highlight your names in blue when you respond but could we also highlight the names of other former players when they respond so that we can know they are a former player? Great job, keep it up!
Just like AF Coug said I just found this site thanks to my brother and its amazing. I am a die hard Cougar fan and this time of year I’m trying to get as much information as I can about BYU Football.
Also, I check Cougarfan.com at least daily but I’ve never seen a link from there to here. I am sure tons more people would read this if they knew about it. On cougarfan you can suggest news and they can post a link to what you suggested. Maybe you’ve already tried.
Also, I am excited to hear what former players like you guys will have to say. I’ve only read a few articles so far and explored the site but I’m definitely going to read back through as much as I can.
I am really excited that this is going to be a positive look at BYU sports. I’m tired of negative comments and people who don’t know what they are talking about.
I also am excited for some in-depth insights into the BYU Program. I’m a little tired of reading articles that aren’t in depth enough. I want to understand our offense and defense better and who has what responsibilities. I know football pretty well and want to know more than the fact that we are in a cover 2 or cover 3 and stuff like that. I don’t know the linebackers responsibilities very well and I don’t know the intricate details of who does what. I know you are trying to write to a large audience, but I just ask that you give us the benefit of the doubt and recognize that a lot of us want as much depth and detail as you can give.
The typical articles that are available to read are newspaper articles that are dumbed down for anyone to understand. I expect guys that really understand the team and opposing teams to give more meat and not just the milk.
Sorry for such a long post, but I just think this is an amazing site. Go Cougars.
Found you from Bleacher Report. Glad I did. Keep us updated on Jan. Sad to hear him on the radio middays, cause I know it dosn’t bode well for his career on the field.
Ban Markell his is a liar!!!
Ban Steve M and tell Markell to come back! I enjoyed his comments/insight even tho I didn’t agree with the QB fiasco yesterday.
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