GameForAnyFuss

It may feel good to look at the record and ignore the context but what good does that do anyone?

Well, it may help with some peoples’ mental health, and a quick glance at the board this morning tells me that might be needed.

Yeah, losing sucks, but perspective is needed.

If I’d told you that Utah would be 4-1 at the bye week while basically playing with the scout team, every one of us would take that in a heartbeat.

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I have learned how not to let my mood be dictated by sports. Utah winning or losing this football game doesn’t impact anything that truly matters in my life.

I think you meant to say “Rising Johnson”, not the other way around.

Tomorrow’s headline: “Johnson drills sloppy Beavers”

I don’t know how you can conclude that UCLA has the better offense. They have played 3 bad teams. They may have the better offense or they may not – there is no evidence yet to support either conclusion.

All I know is they have a true freshman QB who hasn’t faced anything resembling a good college defense. Who knows what he will do under…[Read more]

Sorry, but the game is already gone. What you’re watching today isn’t college football.

Team category
Overachiever: Colorado (it’s not hard to do better than last, and their talent alone will win some games)
Underachiever: Washington (I just don’t see the difference makers on that team)

Player category
Overachiever: Briton Allen (raw talent that will make a quantum leap forward in this defense)
Underachiever: Rising (I just don’t…[Read more]

I have what I call an “hour rule” with airlines. In other words, what is the maximum duration of a flight above which I will not fly that airline?

For example, Spirit is a 2-hour airline. If my flight(s) will be longer than 2 hours, I won’t fly Spirit.
American is a 5-hour airline. I would fly them to the east coast, but no further.
United, Delta…[Read more]

All you have to do is call them “half shares”. Game over.

Lots of great tweets from BYU-Provo Campus fans telling us what the Big12 is like, how the various fanbases are. It’s like they forgot that they have yet to play a single down/minute/point/inning in the conference as of today.

This whole thing conference realignment thing started when Texas created the Longhorn Network. Blame Texas.

Really, anyone inside the P2 (with the exception of maybe 6 teams) isn’t really safe either. Anyone think Vanderbilt is safe on their P2 perch for long?

The bottom line is, if you want to be a P2 school, you’re going to have to keep winning. I don’t think we fully appreciate the level of gratitude for what KW has done to keep us relevant. KW is…[Read more]

Remember, though, that online fandom is like 1% of actual fandom. It’s just the really hardcore people online. The other 99% have nothing against (or for) us.

It will serve as a decent lifeboat until a better opportunity comes along.

I’m not concerned at all about what this does to us from an athletic standpoint (except the basketball program better get its crap together quick). But I am concerned about what it means academically. Remember, the PAC12 led to a huge boost in research collaboration and…[Read more]

What bug crawled up your ass? Pretty sure I don’t deserve your vitriol.

I get it that uncertainty makes you cranky, but man…get some meds or something and relax. Good lord…

There’s absolutely zero chance that Randall doesn’t have a plan. And a plan b, plan c, and plan d. And sources who are actually in the know have alluded to this.

There’s way too much riding on conference affiliation for the university as a whole. I guarantee there were plans for every potential permutation laid out years ago.

A few things to consider:
1. There’s much more to the whole conference alignment thing than sports. Much, much more. As sports fans it’s natural to think everything revolves around sports, but it doesn’t. The amount of research funding dwarfs the entire athletic budget.
2. Do you honestly think that we’re being led by morons here? Do you honestly…[Read more]

I vote that it becomes as small as possible, so long as the way it gets small is by jettisoning the flotsam (like Colorado). The 6 or so marquee schools will command as much TV money as the full PAC12 would have but we will split it less ways.