This idiocy with Utah going to the Big-10

“Some anonymous troll”

No doubt. I’ll admit, it had me fooled for about 5 minutes – but then the “next month” claim was just so outlandishly ridiculous that it was obviously a troll.

Somebody was either super bored and wanted to get some attention, or was seriously trying to do damage to the Utah fanbase.

Cam Rising is expected to lead Utah to its first Big 10 Championship in 2026!

It’s funny. I want Big 10 for Utah for a number of reasons that we all share: Money, prestige, access and attractiveness to the best recruits, academic connections for the U, etc.

But what I really want is to be reconnected to the Western Four in the B1G. Somewhere I saw a rendering of a suggested B1G western pod that would include those four plus Utah and Stanford. I want this more than anything and know of its unlikelyhood in the immediate future, and quite possibly ever.

The Big 12 has always been the “Marriage of Convenience” conference. And I am feeling that in spades since we joined. They think they’re united, yet that are some of the most insecure and small d— energy schools I’ve seen from the old P5 ranks. The difference between the old PAC schools and the rest of the Big 12 is so obvious to me.

The PAC teams know who they are and know they belong. The rest of that conference (the old B12 leftovers and the mid-major additions) are constantly threatened. It’s amazing how much Utah makes them squirm just because we’re proud of who we are and know what we’re capable of in spite of a rough stretch of mbb and fb. We know we’re rebounding in both and they HATE that we know it. They hate that we think we can eventually make the B1G and want that for our institution. No, we’re not just “happy to be here.” If there’s something bigger than what we have, we’re going to shoot for it.

Anyway, the rumor was obviously too good to be true. In the meantime, Utah needs to get its crap back together in the two money sports.

Going to the Big 10, as currently constituted, would be a good thing, generally speaking, for the U. However, would it specifically be good for Utah athletics? I’m not so sure. I want to think so, but then I see who’s in the Big 10 and the number of quality institutions who’ve been eternal also-rans in that conference.

See, as major college sports get professionalized, but without guardrails like a draft, contracts, and full profit sharing, I see an environment where, yes, all universities in the Big 10 will get paid. But, just like the Washington Generals versus the Harlem Globetrotters, many of those universities will be doomed to an eternity of mediocrity and constant losing. Anyone here think that Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Maryland, etc…are going to make the CFP anytime soon? Neither do I. But, at least they’re getting paid, there’s that.

Said a few times, going from MWC to PAC was a massive upgrade. From PAC to Big12 was a drop off in football, but arguably a small upgrade in hoops.

Biggest issue I have is teams are so spread out and the championship venues are now much longer a 6 hours drive down I-15 to Sin City. Of course potentially going to Big10 just puts us with many teams even further away.

This was clearly a byu troll posing as an Utah fan for the sole purpose of making Utah look bad.

He created a utezone account the day before he posted and this was his first post. It was immediately shutdown by the utezone mods but not before it grew legs and ended up on message board genius and cougarboard and locked on big12 podcast as truth.

Yeah whatever. If Zoobs are that desperate I feel sorry for them.

Form the super conference and get it over with. Separate football from all other college sports. Form conferences with regional ties for the other team sports. College football is like a heroin addiction. You cant live without it. NIL, transfer portal, realignment, uneven playing field and rising ticket prices are becoming viable rehabs. It won’t stop until people quit buying tickets and watching it on tv.

Spreading rumors and talking s!it just makes us look bad. We would get our butts kicked in the SEC or Big10. We don’t have the $$ to compete at the highest level. Sorry for the rant. I’m feeling sad, guilty and a little depressed for not renewing my football tickets. Life goes on and I’ve had enough.

I recall Greg Fluguar commenting about the potential down the road and his BYU clown audience gnashing their teeth about him even saying it. The current state of college athletics has me less interested by the day.

It was clearly written by some zoobie troll. Every Ute fan remembers that it took the Pac-10 6 months to properly vet (1) expansion, (2) Utah, (3) all other expansion candidates, and (4) the distributing media networks. Utah fans were also able to follow along with all the extensive media reports from reputable media sources (i.e. ESPN, CBSSN, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, et al).

And now some anonymous “1st time” poster with a brand new UteZone account suddenly pops up with inside information that this would all be secured in a month??? And sans reputable media outlets discussing this? It’s no coincidence that the first place outside of UteZone that this was mentioned was on cougarboard. That zoob who’d posted about it there is likely the “Ute insider” who’d posted that fairy tale on UteZone in the first place.

And if Jake Toll wanted to do a podcast about this fake news BigTen expansion story on “Locked On Big 12”, why wasn’t JT Wistrcill (“Locked On Utes”) invited to join the discussion to provide his narrative?

Answer: Because Jake T[r]oll knows it was bulls**t, and was taking this as an opportunity to take another shot at Utah, because he’s still p**sed off that Utah was so dismissive of his conference during the period where we were trying our best to hold the Pac-12 together. If JT were allowed to comment, he’d have shot that down. Jake can’t fan the flames when there’s no legitimate smoke, and while JT is holding a wet blanket.

If the day ever comes that the BigTen extends Utah an invitation, it won’t be a month after nobody was talking about it. That whole “month” time frame was designed to provide zoob nation a short wait to spend the offseason jeering at Utah for being “arrogant” and “delusional”, continue riling up other Big 12 fan bases, and deflect from their blatant moneyball tampering agenda, that had recently cropped up among Baylor fans.

My interactions with visiting fans from our new conference foes including Baylor, TCU, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and others have been nothing but pleasant. Visiting fans who visit the Hunty and Rice-Eccles will realize the horror stories they have heard from Zoobs are not accurate at all.