Radford @ 
Utah Reply To: Butler-Byrd should be back with the team early next week.
Realistic? I said all along that BB would be back by the BYU game and this wasn’t a big deal. Yet I’m unrealistic? Interesting.
Also, I have earned this reputation because I said Utah would win 20 games the past two years. The “realists” said that was insane and Utah no shot at that.
Utah won 19 games.
So, who is the “realist”?
I’ve been optimistic because we’ve been good. It turns out my optimism was very realistic.
What’s happened is that people railed against me so hard and they turned out to be more wrong than I and that rubbed them wrong.
The reality is this:
What Butler-Byrd did was wrong. Had he done this in May, we probably would have never known about it. BUT, in the grand scheme of things, it’s pretty tame and inconsequential. He won’t miss much time, if any at all. He isn’t mentally unstable. He isn’t some abuser of sorts.
What is real, is that too many people went all TMZ and decided that they were going to label the angry black kid as insane or addicted to drugs to give them something to talk about.
They weren’t realistic. They were jerks. And it p**ses them off when I was right and they weren’t.
So, what do they do? Attack me and make fun of me. The “realists”. Who weren’t very realistic at all.
I don’t want this to come off as an attack on anyone. I really, really try not to attack anyone personally, but try to stick to going after their posts. If I have offended anyone personally, I’m sorry.
But to label me as unrealistic, and those who attack me as “realists” is just wrong.
