http://www.sltrib.com/home/4956565-155/when-outdoor-retailers-left-salt-lakehttp://www.sltrib.com/news/4955606-155/gehrke-stubborn-drill-baby-drill-rhetoric-philosophy-costs
OR had planned to expand to FIVE shows a year and were ready to sign a contract through 2023
this is a rest read by Gehrke and shows just how badly Herbett et al mismanaged this negotiation
for those that want to blame the retailers they were exercising their free market choices. And they choose to take their business and their money elsewhere.
I did not know that OR had gone to DC to meet with bishop et al and were basically told to take a hike.
EDIT: call me skeptical about this. http://www.sltrib.com/news/4956555-155/trusting-in-trump-utah-lawmakers-back
Well crap that didn’t work…
Looking at the future through 2023 the only P5 game is Baylor… I am hoping we get some changes, but here is what we have right now:
2018
08/30 – Weber State
09/08 – at Northern Illinois
11/24 – BYU
2019
08/29 – at BYU
09/07 – Northern Illinois
09/14 – Idaho State
2020
09/05 – BYU
2021
09/02 – Weber State
09/18 – at San Diego State
2022
09/10 – Southern Utah
09/17 – San Diego State
2023
09/16 – at Baylor
This is not going to be popular but I’m sticking to my guns on this. DO NOT SCHEDULE TOUGH OPPONENTS OUT OF SCHEDULE. Worshington did it right. 9 conference games are a meat grinder where you lose a few players EVERY GAME. If we didn’t play Michigan last year, we win the south and you will not convince me otherwise. This year, we lose Kyle Fitts during the BYU game. I’m happy our out of conference schedule is s**t until we hit the Baylor series in 2023 or whatever the hell it is.
I’d like to see an out of conference schedule each year of SUU/Weber, Easy G5, another G5 or easy P5.
Getting through conference play is a war of attrition. I get that playing Michigan at home was one of the best games ever but we paid for it on the back end. We are still playing 500 ball in November and I think it’s because of depth. Each year our depth gets better and we’re almost there, or we might actually be there now. How nice would it be to have Kylie Fitts right now if we played the likes of Rutgers instead of BYU?
The grind will hit Worshinton at some point but they’re still going to be very fresh when they face us.
Utah @ 
UCLA 
