Derek M Smith

Will travel for BYU Football/basketball or great food - preferably both.

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@stoolpresidente What a bunch of bafoons. How does the CFP selection committee explain the convoluted crap they just pulled today. Clearly different set of rules and criteria apply to each different team? They should all be banned for life from college football - down to the peewee league level.

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@RGIII Sadly, I’m not surprised. Fans of every school across the country need to demand more. Otherwise this game we all love will mean less than it ever has.

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@JakeLeei How do we get this added to the new Hymns for Home and Church collection?

[Kramer @KramerHolle]

If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.

If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.

If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.

If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.

BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.

This. Makes. No. Sense.

The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).

RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

We love you Coach @kalanifsitake 💙

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@boeder_john @RGIII @BYUfootball @OuttaPocketRG3 @Gretegiii That’s not correct. The real name of the Mormon church is actually The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The doctrine of the church is that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world and the only way back to our Father in Heaven.

[David A. Bednar @BednarDavidA]

Rather than changing our circumstances, our Heavenly Father can change us and our hearts so we then can change our circumstances.

This strength to change comes from Jesus Christ—an incredible gift from a loving God.

[Spencer Linton @Spencer_Linton]

Listen to the cadence and increasing volume of the crowd as Bear Bachmeier gets closer and closer to the end zone. An electric sequence… and another reminder why an in stadium experience like this is unforgettable.

[Travis Hansen @travishansen24]

Huge cover story on AJ with Slam published today.

“The funny thing is that we never told him how much money any of the schools were offering,” Ace explains. “We wanted to go about the recruiting process very differently from others. My wife and I decided not to tell him because we didn’t want money to be a factor in his decision. So, he came into my room one day and said, Dad, I’m going to BYU. I said, What?! He repeated, I’m going to BYU. Then I asked him, Why BYU? He goes, KY—Coach Kevin Young. He said, Dad, I want to be a pro. He came from the pros. He coached one of my favorite players, Kevin Durant. He coached D-Book, he coached CP3. AJ reached out to Kevin Durant to ask about KY. Coach brought an analytics staffer from the Suns, he brought the nutritionist from the Suns, the strength and conditioning coach came from the Milwaukee Bucks. He’s like, Dad, I’m going to BYU.

“Not only did he not know how much money each school was offering, but he also didn’t even end up picking the school that was offering the most money. There were schools that offered more. If it was about the money, we could’ve just went to BYU and said, Hey, so and so is offering this much more, just to get more money for AJ to come here. All these crazy numbers were being thrown around in the media but people don’t even know—AJ knows now what he got, but people just wanted to speculate.”

https://t.co/kC7MNukUVy

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@Big12Conference @MarchMadnessMBB @UHCougarMBK @UHCougars This blue Coug is cheering for the red Coogs! Represent #BYUMBB

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

NO. 8 MIAMI

Strength of Schedule: 54th
Strength of Record: 9th
Game Control: 19th

NO. 12 BOISE STATE

SOS: 76th
SOR: 15th
GC: 17th

NO. 13 SMU

SOS: 86th
SOR: 14th
GC: 16th

NO. 14 BYU

SOS: 53rd
SOR: 8th
GC: 15th

BYU rates highest in every one of these metrics, beat SMU, and is ranked below all three. Pretty clear they don't want to risk two Big 12 teams getting in.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth forwarding this to friends & family

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

“Duh-nuh-nuh, Duh-nuh-nuh”

[Big 12 Conference @Big12Conference]

so... @BYUfootball travels well 👀

Painting Fayetteville blue in a back-and-forth battle with the Razorbacks.

[Angel @AngelStudiosInc]

People have been so generous in spreading the message of 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 that they've Paid It Forward so thousands of others can watch it for free in theaters. Get your tickets today!

[Derek M Smith @DerekMSmith1]

@CriddleBenjamin Thanks

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

"IT'S TIME!!"

[Quotes by Russell M. Nelson @rmnelsonquotes]

You who may be momentarily disheartened, remember, life is not meant to be easy. Trials must be borne and grief endured along the way.

[Latter-day Saint Quotes @LDSquotable]

“Change is what Christ’s Atonement is all about. Not only can Christ resurrect, cleanse, console, and heal us, but through it all, He can transform us to become more like Him.” -Bradley R. Wilcox