2008 National Champ

Here’s the problem that I have when people talk about collective bargaining. When collective bargaining enters the fray, you’re no longer a student but an employee of the university. And, if/when that happens, that opens up an entirely different Pandora’s Box of unintended consequences. For example, a lot of the top academic schools (Stanford,…[Read more]

The issue that I have with football breaking away and forming a closed league of 30 to 40 teams is that it shuts out the majority of the country. Let’s face it, college football is regional while the NFL is national. I believe that you can’t apply the NFL method to college football because fans have much more of a sentimental attachment to…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s absolutely not sustainable because eventually the cost will be passed on to the fans and I know very few fans that will pay pro prices for a below minor league product. Loyalty goes both ways and everything is fun and games until people’s bottom lines start getting affected.

#BlameWhitt?

I subscribed to Canzano’s blog on Substack for a couple of years, but I cancelled my subscription late last year. The demise of the PAC 12 really destroyed his business model. It no longer made sense to read his articles when the teams he was covering were split among three mutually exclusive conferences.

I’m hoping someone, probably Rising, eventually writes a tell-all book about what happened behind the scenes during the 2023 and 2024 seasons. I’m guessing that if he does, it won’t paint many people within the program in a good light. I can only refer to what I, and others like Chingiskhan, said once we found out, in early summer 2023, the…[Read more]

That, to me, is one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen in 50+ years watching college football. I have to think that it was purely a political move designed to get Coach Prime to stay on. Otherwise, it’s ridiculous to retire a player’s number on the basis of one good, not great, season. I guess if Coach Prime leaves Colorado in a lurch at a…[Read more]

The crazy thing is that Lohner played just 57 snaps in his college football career. Contrast that with Travis Hunter, who played 149 snaps in just one game.

This is absolutely a thing now in college sports and you don’t even have to really be a star for it to apply to you. I mean there are guys who’re going to try and play in college as long as they can because they know they’ll be getting paid more there than as an NFL rookie.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Shadeur Sanders, 3rd Day draft pick.

We’re on to the 3rd Rd and still no sign of Sanders…there’s got to be plenty of holes in his game for a guy with as much tape as he has to fall so far down the draft. Well, that and the fact that the NFL doesn’t like prima donnas with defects.

Sanders one of those guys that, in the past, would ask for 1st Rd money because that’s where he should have been drafted. I’m not sure where he goes but he does seem to have a black cloud over his head at the moment.

Arizona as well. It seems like every time BYU goes to Arizona, there are issues with very public insults towards BYU and LDS Church in general.

LOL, let me tell you something Phil…I’m not from Utah, so I have an East Coast perspective as to where you stand in the football pecking order. And what BYU is, figuratively speaking, is a pimple in a cow’s ass, or maybe a tick in a billy goat’s balls. In the real world, BYU didn’t exist in the past, doesn’t exist now, and won’t exist in the…[Read more]

Rick, at this point, I think the timing is irrelevant. As college sports become more professionalized and almost identical to NFL franchises, down to having GMs, etc…anything that in the current environment provides potential personnel intel to opponents will be eliminated. Can you imagine if the NFL were run like college football is run…[Read more]

How so? Please elaborate…

Personally, I think I’m done even if he stays. I’m kind of feeling this might be my last year as a season ticket holder. I had way too much fun going to about 30 x Utah Hockey Club games, and I think I’m going to fully transition my time, money, and attention to that team. At the very worst, they’ll never approach the hypocrisy that abounds in…[Read more]

Well, it’s the highest rated, with regards to academics, university in Utah. Yeah, I know, shocker that any athlete nowadays would be concerned about something like that. Personally, I think that the only reason why non-Mormon athletes go there is because they blow off the Honor Code, and no one cares.

I think the answer to that is without a doubt. Given the current environment, there’s zero benefit to conducting games of this ilk. That’s the reason why so many programs have stopped doing them. All you’re doing is exposing yourself to last-minute defections by key players on your team. At the end of the day, all it is, is a watered-down…[Read more]

I totally agree with that…in fact, you could make the case that the reason that BYU lost the games they did was due to Retzlaff’s poor play. He was absolutely horrible versus Kansas and ASU.