Derek Paulson

Losing my mind rn

@BussinWTB @rakoto10 @TaylorLewan77 @_willcompton @TexasTechFB @JoeyMcGuireTTU @budlight @FDSportsbook @FanDuel I have huge respect for Texas Tech as well. Hoping for a rematch in Arlington again this year!

Texas Tech has some new rivals emerging 🔥

@erc95 All that being said, give me Bidunga lol

The problem with the portal and lists like this is you could get all 10 of these guys - and it would COST A LOT - and I don’t think you make the final 4. Everyone wants to throw hype money but the reality is that’s not how the the last ones standing this year were built.

BYU dynasty loading.

Exhibit 9,657 on why Jamaal Williams is one of my favorite Cougs ever. He had EVERY reason to leave and came back because “loyalty is everything”. Legend.

The transfer portal era...

Provo, Utah

@ItsJakePerry @JerusalemDemsas I think the explanation is simple. For most of human history, a child was a net producer to the family economy. For the last few generations (~millennials and forward), children are net consumers.

@JerusalemDemsas In every country around the world, when people gain the ability (socially, literally) to choose how many kids to have, they choose fewer. We might consider the possibility that this is the number of kids humans have always wanted & that the rest have been accidental or coerced

I wrote about why millennials freeze at the baby question. The decisions life asks you to make used to be able to ruin you. For college-educated Americans, they mostly can't anymore. Progress has eliminated almost every irreversible decision from modern life. Marriage? Career? Moving? All of these--to a large extent--can be reversed or mitigated. Having a kid is the last high-variance decision left. And we have basically zero practice making decisions like that. New from me at @TheArgumentMag: theargumentmag.com/p/theres-no-su…

@DerwinLGray @BYU @CriddleBenjamin @DaveMcCannTV "Enter to learn, go forth to serve." You have lived that motto through your ministry. Congratulations on the honor, but more importantly, thank you for spreading goodness!

Grateful and humbled to receive the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award from @BYU. This honor reflects God’s grace, the love of my family, and the faithfulness of so many who have walked this journey with me. I pray my life continues to point people to Jesus.

Auburn complained very loudly about missing the NCAA Tournament. I didn’t agree with lots of the arguments made on their behalf, but they went and won the NIT Winning is a much better way to make a point than taking your ball and going home like Notre Dame football did this year

@TheFieldOf68 Follow in Kresimir Cosic's footsteps!

NEWS: New Mexico’s Tomislav Buljan intends to enter the transfer portal, he announced. The Croatian big man averaged 13.1 ppg and 10.3 rpg for the Lobos. Was one of 14 players to average double-double.

The literal resurrection of Jesus is, of course, the subject of so many scriptures that it is settled doctrine for believers of the Bible and Book of Mormon. For us, the universal resurrection is equally certain. I wonder if we fully appreciate the enormous significance of our belief in a literal, universal resurrection. The conviction that death is not the conclusion of our identity changes the whole perspective of our mortal life. It affects how we look on the physical challenges of mortality. It gives us the strength and perspective to endure the mortal challenges faced by each of us and by those we love. It signifies that mortal deficiencies are only temporary! It also gives us the courage to face our own death or that of loved ones—even deaths we might call premature. Our belief in the resurrection also encourages us to fulfill our family responsibilities in mortality. It helps us live together in love in this life in anticipation of joyful reunions and associations in the next. #GreaterLove #GeneralConference Artwork: “Above All” by Kelsy and Jesse Lighweave

Happy Easter, my friends! Grateful for a Savior and for the hope that comes because He is risen!

He is risen!

okayyyy gozo we see youuuuu

@realsaltlake sheeeeeeeesh

SMALL FORWARD OF THE YEAR

@TeeplesCY Love it!

New all-time record convert baptisms in 2025, an increase of 24.9% from last year. 2025: 385,490 (+24.9%) 2024: 308,682 (+22.6%) 2023: 251,763 (+18.7%) 2022: 212,172 (+26.1%) 2021: 168,283 (+33.7%) 2020: 125,930 Previous all-time record: 330,877 (1990) — broken by 54,613

My favorite mission companion and I have an shared memory of an extremely awkward stake conference musical number of "Glory to God on High." So every six months, when the hymn is sung at General Conference we have to text each other "Worthy the Lamb!!!" and have a great laugh.

"designed for sharing" sounds like a challenge

@USUtheRightBlue @WCCSG_ If I hadn't gone to and loved BYU, I'd choose Utah State over Utah 1000 times out of 1000. Cache Valley is where it's at.

@WCCSG_ Utah because commuting to school and going to Jazz games instead of their own basketball team isn’t an ideal college experience in my mind ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Go to USU, have a great college experience in a college town, and no honor code to tell you what to do sounds pretty nice to me.

What state did they get wrong?