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It’s not coping. It’s showing all the overtly negative Nellie’s that things can change quickly. I understand why we are here and the mistakes made. I’m a realist but also try to keep some rational optimism.

If that’s the case, we can probably expect a few bogus flags this weekend. Kind of glad that personal requirements will keep me from watching the game.

Miami I lived in Salt Lake my whole life. We moved to Holladay in the early 60s and lived here ever since. We were the only non Mormon family in several blocks. The religion has always been strange to me but the people have been great neighbors and friends. It taught me to judge others by actions not religion. I wouldn’t change anything and I…[Read more]

Have you seen Diego Pavia’s (Vanderbilt QB) suit against the NCAA? Really interesting…he’s trying to make the case that age or time-related eligibility requirements in NCAA competitions are unconstitutional. If he won, which is not a given, it could mean that a guy like Cam Rising could keep playing, should he want to, at the U forever without…[Read more]

Based on the selection criteria the Big 12 still seems like the best path to the CFP for Utah right now. I have confidence that things will be righted. The defense is still a top in the country and Utah just needs an average offense to be very competitive.

Right now I think the Big 12 would love to see a CU vs BYU conference championship game.…[Read more]

Destined to lose at home to Kansas this weekend!

that’s an interesting coping technique. why even have a season? just let the fans decide the outcome they want and then there’s no reason to play the games.

I left all the BIg12 online groups back in September and have never looked back as they weren’t much better than CB. Way too much of a BYU representation and many of them seem to want Utah to be the most hated team in the conference. I’ve noted here before that with all the ‘beer’ stories, the biggest disappointment some fans may have when…[Read more]

Ghost, or anyone else who might know:

What’s up with the reported “team chemistry” issues with Wilson? Is he playable at this point, both due to this supposed issue and his health? I’m hoping these things have been blow out of proportion by the rumor mill, especially since he is one of our two remaining QBs for the year.

It’s so true. If Rising (I know I know) stays healthy OR we had brought in a competent veteran QB transfer, very good chance we’d be like 8-1. R E L A X

I’m not putting Retzlaff up for the Heisman. I’m saying that if he has another year of eligibility, I like the parochial school’s QB situation better Utah’s. Sitake has followed the Whitt model to a T. He’s got a strong, opportunistic Defense. His special teams are solid. And he’s got a QB who doesn’t wilt under pressure against the best D he…[Read more]

I’m not from SLC, I just started living here five years ago when I fully retired. In fact, the only time I lived in Utah before that, was the 18 months I spent in grad school at the U a quarter century ago. And you’re right, it’s nothing compared to Miami, Atlanta, Madrid, the Bay Area, Amman, Beirut, Riyadh, Kuwait City, Rome, and a bunch of…[Read more]

1) I’m grateful that I made you laugh. Bringing joy to people in football poverty is a #blessing

2) We’re so immature, I get it. Oftentimes we result to religious bigotry because we have literally nothing else to cling to. p.s. I’m not mormon, but if you’d like to make allusions to me being offended by the “temple square” stuff, go for…[Read more]

It surely isn’t Mormons as a group. I would venture that the majority of Ute fans here are devout Mormons or have some connection to the LDS Church but they don’t engage in the shenanigans that the BYU fanbase does.

I will tell you this…after Saturday’s game, I’ve been perusing several Big 12 YouTube channels (Baylor, K State, Locked on Big 12, etc..) that focused on the aftermath of the Holy War and, well, let me just call it what it is, I was shocked at the number of BYU fans on those channels who, instead of talking about their own team, all they did was…[Read more]

They have the money. Throw it at someone that works with Dan Farnse at RSL. The dude is a wizard with grass.

Just to clarify, what is ‘that group’, ‘bad group that does bad things’?
– Mormons
– Believers of the religion
– BYU fans which mostly profess to be one of the above (‘byu fan base’ mentioned in Kellso post)

I’m not sold on Retzlaff. He was horrible last year and last weekend versus Utah. Is he serviceable? Yeah, I guess so…but he’s not carrying the team on his back ala a Cam Rising or Caleb Williams…a guy like him has plenty of unfixable holes that can be exploited no matter his experience.

Nurse also said he had special orthopedic inserts and didn’t really care for UA’s cleats.