[PhiladelphiaUte]

Isn’t that news about a week old now?

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Awesome! Not that this will stop the tdS from tampering with him. He’ll be Junior this year, so barring an early exit to the NFL’s 2026 draft, they’ll do it again.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

I just don’t see the point of piling on. Whichever team eventually drafts him — and he will be drafted — will be getting a steal. And Sanders may likely even end up at a better team. And as this should most certainly humble and motivate him, this could experience could very well benefit his professional career.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Utah didn’t “pull a fast one” on ybu-p, when we were offered an invitation from the Pac-10. Nobody woke up one morning in mid-June 2010, and said…

“Wait….WHAT? Utah’s leaving the MWC to join the Pac-10??? Really??? I did NOT see that coming!“

Everybody knew the Pac-10 was interested in Utah. And everybody knew that Utah was interested in the Pac-10. Additionally, everybody knew that the Pac-10 was NOT interested in ybu-p. And their lack of interest in ybu-p had absolutely NOTHING to do with Utah, and EVERYTHING to do with ybu-p.

Furthermore, ybu-p did NOT “hold out for the [Utes] when the Big 12…had discussions with [ybu-p] a few decades ago.” That’s such a myth, this is literally the very first time I’d heard some ignorant zoob ever stake this ridiculous claim. Here are the facts:

1. Back when the Big 8 opted to expand, they only wanted Texas and Texas A&M. The only reason why Baylor and Texas Tech were added, was because the Baylor (Gov Ann Richards) and Texas Tech (Lt Gov Bob Bullock) alumni in Austin threatened to pull UT’s and A&M’s state funding if they don’t bring BU and TT along with them. Zoob nation loves to keep telling the fairy tale that Baylor was admitted to join the Big 12 in lieu of the tdS, but that’s just not true. Neither Baylor, nor Texas Tech, were substituted in over another school. There was no substitution. Only coattails. If Richards and Bullock hadn’t bullied their ways into the Big 12, the Big 8 would have only expanded to 10 teams. 10. Not 12.

2. Back when the Big 8 opted to expand, there were no discussions between the Big 12 and ybu-p, wherein the tdS was “holding out for” Utah’s invitation. You just made that up.

3. Utah didn’t “abandon” ybu-p by joining the Pac-12. Our joining the Pac-12 had nothing to do with ybu-p. Stop trying to make this all about you.

4. Utah did not actively campaign to keep the tdS out of the Pac-12. We had nothing to do with your exclusion. The vote was 10-0 for Larry Scott to invite whomever he chose, and he’d chosen Utah and Colorado. Neither Utah nor Colorado had a vote. Without a vote, we couldn’t have had anything to do your failure to measure up.

5. There was no evidence that Utah coaches snitched on a ybu player. There WAS evidence that a ybu-p football player was violating ybu-p’s Honor Code by slinking around a Las Vegas strip club however, but don’t blame US for that. That’s on HIM.

6. UCLA never created a website about the dirtiest team in the U.S. about the University of Utah. They DID however, do so about ybu-p. Don’t project your faults onto us. Own them.

You live in a fact-free bubble where you’ll believe everything you’re told from within your in-house, self-aggrandizing propaganda machine (i.e. cougarboard). And this is obvious, as you clearly had done no research on any of the above. You only “heard stories/rumors” about them, and possibly even made some of them up on your own. And that’s why you won’t be able to refute a single thing I’d said with any corroborating articles.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

The “AAU” requirement is a “BigTen” stipulation. Not a “Pac-10” one. The Pac-10 only required a school to have a Tier-1 Research categorization. The tdS didn’t reach that pinnacle until just last year — 15-yrs too late for the Pac-10.

When Utah finally received our invitation, neither we, nor Arizona St, had achieved “AAU” status yet. Utah would get there 10-yrs later, and Arizona St 3-yrs after that. And neither Washington St, nor Oregon St, had ever reached “AAU” membership.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

That comment was verbatim from an actual post on cougarboard earlier today.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Correct you are Utah#1. Except that it’s the right wingnut MAGA Republicans who are the brainwashed, truth-hating, hypocrites, who will destroy anyone who disagrees with them or exposes them as the frauds they are, and then turn around and blames everybody else for the very thing they are guilty of doing.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

I feel like the people who think that we’ll no longer need to rely on Cam Rising, as the reason for improvement in 2025, are missing the point. Our problem wasn’t “relying on Cam Rising”. It was “injury”. And “injury” isn’t exclusive to “Rising”.

If Dampier goes down, don’t expect his backup to flourish right out of the gate. And dual-threat QBs are more prone to injury than pro-styles, due to the increased contact.

We had the same issue with Huntley. We’d cruised through the 2018 season….until he got injured. Huntley’s injury may very well have cost us the Pac-12 Conference Championship that year. But the problem wasn’t “Huntley”. It was “injury”. Same as it was with “Rising”.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

We’d played #7 Ariz St, #13 ybu-p, #15 Iowa St, and #25 Colo last year. You call a schedule with 4 ranked opponents “ridiculously easy”? And don’t forget that our conference schedule was 4-Home, 5-Away.

This wasn’t our toughest schedule in Utah Football history, but I wouldn’t have described it as “ridiculously easy”.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

I would also like to include the players’ position coaches as well. But whether it’s the head coach, or the position coach, that player must be obligated to transfer to the same institution as that coach. Either that, or revert back to the old way of sitting out a year.

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