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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.

Let’s not start that again. Utah need to at least finish their humble pie before it’s fans start demanding respect not yet earned.

If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now. College football is a QB driven game. Iowa State and K State will be bringing back junior QB’s with plenty of starting experience. TCU just needs to figure out their…[Read more]

Absolutely. As you say, no dominant team exists in the Big 12. Any or all could go winless or undefeated. UCF is sitting on a veritable recruiting gold mine. So is Houston. ASU close to it, not only because of the huge Phoenix area, but because of their proximity and history with SoCal recruits…any of those teams gets their stuff together,…[Read more]

It’s the altitude man 😉

Another reason why Whitt needs to open up practice.

Too often he brings a player in, gives them reps over better players, plays them over better players, sticks with them over better players.

If practice was open, we’d at least be able to ask Whitt:

Why Brewer over Rising?
Why Wilson over Rose?
Why Loener over King?
Why Pittman over…[Read more]

As did I. Loved every minute of it. But looking back, it was dangerous as hell and wouldn’t want to do so again.

I’m so tired of the phrase “the most awful things…about Mormons…”

If it’s true, and you think it’s awful, then that’s a you problem. And that’s my issue with that group. It’s a bad group that does bad things and when you call them out for it, they get mad at you instead of looking in the mirror and changing.

And watch, after I post this the…[Read more]

Yep. Sometimes people only hear the first part of the sentence. This is not a meritocracy/charity letting just ANY 5 conferences in. It’s still P4 tilted (with a bone thrown to 1 G5 team – usually) and the SEC and B1G filling most of the at large spots.

I could see a one-loss or even two-loss (CU) Big 12 team being the only representative with…[Read more]

Mantis, you guys make me laugh…you’re so immature as a fan base…one whiff of incomplete success and you’re on top of the world…what will happen if you lose to Kansas on Saturday? Will people be jumping off the Moroni Statue in Temple Square in despair? You have to understand that, outside of Utah, it’s people like you who are different,…[Read more]

Also, there is no Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon in the Big 12.

Utah could easily run the table next year, in large part because the Big 12 is so bad.

correct. It’s the 5 highest ranked conference champions that get autobids with the four highest ranked getting byes. That guarantees a G5 but doesn’t limit it to only one.

It’s conceivable that a P4 school could lose 2 of their non-cons like Utah did in 2021, lose two more in conference but still qualify for their CCG. Then that 4 loss team…[Read more]