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A lot of us were wrong on this season. I’d say everyone but I’m sure somewhere there was a monkey with a keyboard who was able to predict this

Following. I still will follow and watch the Utes, but my interest in putting money out to travel to away games (and I don’t live in Utah) is waning with the whole college environment – NIL/transfers, etc. I’ve been to Tempe, Tucson, Boulder, and TCU (back in MWC days), but none of the other places (ok, have passed through Waco, Lubbock, and…[Read more]

With lots of teams moving in/out last few years, making a schedule was somewhat tricky. I have the impressions the league wants to move the Holy War to this last weekend.

Also tricky that unlike the PAC12, we don’t have a lot of traditional rivalries. Really just have Utah/BYU, the Kansas and Zona schools. Was chatting with a TCU group on TRAX…[Read more]

I was really looking forward to @UCF with 2 cousins that went there and live in FL and now my parents snowbird there. But it wouldn’t have been the whole family and other travel partners weren’t going to do it due to Thanksgiving, so it fell through. Glad it didn’t work out I guess, but sad we are 4-7 going into it rather than the hoped for 10-1…[Read more]

If this season would have met expectations Or even if Utah had a winning record would Utah fans still hate the Big 12?

With all of my heart. Outside of the 3 teams we came with I want to be associated with any of them from a football or overall athletics standpoint or an academic standpoint and least of all a cultural standpoint. I don’t mind a…[Read more]

Yeah same. I was thinking about it. Best friend lives in Tampa and he’s a big Ute fan. Didn’t pull the trigger either. Glad I didn’t.

There you go.

Given the cards he was dealt it looks to me like Yormark has come pretty close to maximizing his product. He took the B12 from the verge of collapse to 3rd-most-stable of conferences and apparently most stable outside the 2 dominant conferences. At least for now that is.

NIL is not salary. No professional leagues have a cap on endorsement deals. That is precisely what the courts ruled to be illegal in regards to college athletes.

The NBA has aggressive salary capping yet the Jazz can’t really compete with the Lakers because of this. There is no way to make it equal. LeBron can make a lot more $ playing for the…[Read more]

I don’t “hate” the big 12. But let’s not sugar coat it. We were driving a Porsche (BMW, Ferrari, or whatever high end car you like), and how we’re driving a 2005 Hyundai. They both get the job done, but there’s bound to be disappointment.

I think this is an oversimplification to some extent. The Big 12 did well to jump ahead of the PAC. But they also had an easier time doing so.

To be blunt, the Big 12 had a bunch of unwanted leftovers who were going to be happy to take whatever decent deal they could get. If they couldn’t get a deal, then probably at least half that conference…[Read more]

NIL is 100% outside money and the schools are not supposed to have anything to do with it.

Each school has a “collective” of boosters who pool their outside money and contract with specific players.

Conversations between the school and the collective’s are apparently allowed since I’ve not heard of anyone being accused of violating the NIL rules…[Read more]

When Cam Rising is on our roster, it becomes much harder to attract a portal transfer who wants to be #1. I believe Whitt said a month or so ago that they had been very active in the QB portal during the offseason but couldn’t get traction with starter-level guys because they knew this was Cam’s program. I love the guy and would want nothing more…[Read more]

Thank you Tony!!!

We play Houston too. It sucks. Hopefully they fix it.

I do wish we played either BYU or Colorado this weekend or even TCU. But it shouldn’t ever be some team on the East Coast who we have zero connection with.

Setting aside Cam coming back or not, I hope that someone in the medical field has a serious talk with him about how the injuries he has sustained playing football may impact his physical health the rest of his life.