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Interest in college sports…Rising (for the first time in 2 years). If this has the effect I hope it has, I might actually watch more than half of the games this season.

When I was at Utah in the late 80’s, it was the same time period UNLV was putting together great basketball teams. One of their players, Greg Anthony, started a tee shirt company that was relatively successful. The NCAA, in their shortsightedness, gave him the option of giving up his company or giving up his scholarship and paying his own way to…[Read more]

Pretty much sounds like exactly what a biased and unrealistic BYU fan who doesn’t like Utah would say.

Total respect for Kalani if that’s how he handled the Retzlaff situation.

I laughed out loud when I read what the guy said about Bachmeier Under Troy Taylor, Stanford was 3-9 last year (and they were 3-9 the year before too). They were…[Read more]

Worries…
Depth at DT and DE. Need a #1 WR to step up. QB if DD goes down with an injury it will be ugly with a rotation of bad inexperienced QBs and another 6 win season at best. CB have potential but need game reps. Not worried about RB TE OL LB K/P & S.

I think running back is going to surprise us although I certainly see your concern given how new the room is.

My #1 worry is wide receiver position group and then depth at D’Tackle

I’m not LDS and grew up in Salt Lake and attended the U. Here’s my 2 cents. As an outsider looking in the LDS faith is very strange. The kids growing up that looked down on me for not being LDS were more likely BYU fans (not all). The LDS kids that didn’t care were more likely Utah fans. I have many close LDS friends that I still play golf and h…[Read more]

I totally prefer to keep religion out of our discussions. Unfortunately, we are in a conference with byu and with them as part of the equation sometimes sports and religion are mixed together.

Confucius say: “How come my followers never thought to put a clock in my belly?”

If BYU has another successful season they will try and lock him up more long term. Hill has made a huge difference since his arrival. Kalani will struggle without him. If BYU struggles this year and Whitt retires it might open the door to get him back. It depends on where his heart is at. A few extra $$$ might help solve the heart issue.

I’m going to talk about Buddhism whenever possible and no one can stop me.

Who are any of these people

Quite possibly the LB coach

All interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

I don’t buy it regarding Sitake running their defense. I’m sure he helped after the heart attack, but there’s no way he ran it.

I can’t imagine wanting a true freshman to earn the starting QB job over two transfers with a good amount of game experience. They really might be in for a rough year.

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He is a key piece this year. Big enough to get through arm tackles. Spreading the field and a good experienced o-line will open some lanes unlike last year. The running back that transferred from NM along with Dampier should help him with the scheme. All the skill level players are stepping up to a higher level of competition and much better…[Read more]

Spending their money on whatever they want is not the same as denying they are doing it.

It’s not the spending it’s the lying about it.

And unlike going to an overpriced Disneyland they can even be proud of it. Most places are now. They are using it as a selling point (which I’m sure internally they are too) and at best the people who can’t…[Read more]

I think all this depends on what you think the expectation for the rivalry going forward is and it’s perfectly acceptable, if not the appropriate move, to recalibrate those expectations.

The trend suggests Utah is not going 8-1 vs BYU over the next nine games like they did when BYU was independent and Utah was in the Pac-12.

The reality is…[Read more]

I think you’re getting confused by the points here. I never claimed BYU wasn’t the better positioned program pre-Pac-12 move. In fact, I’ve consistently said that despite Utah improving head-to-head vs BYU in the 90s, the Cougars were still the more nationally relevant program. I never claimed Utah had more money than BYU in the WAC and MWC days.…[Read more]