The Miami Ute

Hi UteBacker and thanks for the information. I’ll look into doing something like that during my next trip to Alaska, whenever that is. We’re already signed up for a full day of cruising on the water and I think my family would revolt if we were to do it again in a short time.

I’m going to Alaska for 10 days. First time I’ve been there in 35 years. We’re going to split our time between Anchorage and Fairbanks and do some touristy stuff like going to Denali National Park and a whale watching cruise. Later in the summer, I’ll also be going up to northwestern Montana for a couple of weeks to do some camping. This is…[Read more]

One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Maybe he becomes the next Tavion Thomas (minus the psychological issues), or maybe he just has a cup of coffee with the Utes. I will say the fact that he transferred so late in the game and was available to Utah definitely means that all of the traditional football powers passed on the guy.

Well, the problem is that when I said “Cal”, it’s just an example that also applies to many more universities. I always said that this new world of unlimited transfers, NIL, etc…would lead to a series of unintended consequences, of which many universities dropping football or athletics in general is just one. Here’s another…we all know that a…[Read more]

All I know is that he’s a Covid player…he started at BYU in 2020, transferred to Utah in 2021, transferred to UCONN in 2022, transferred back to Utah in 2023, and hasn’t played a down the last two seasons. Hard to see how, after five college football seasons where he hasn’t even played in a game, he’s anything more than a footnote. Stranger…[Read more]

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]