“I imagine we will work together to add back the home game. Wouldn’t say give it up. We will figure it out as the two schools often do.” — Mark Harlan
As I interpret this comment, Harlan isn’t saying we’re forgiving the return date. It sounds like he’s moving to push it back. Per our current future schedules, after 2021…
1. Our schedules are all booked up from 2022-24
2. The tdS is already scheduled to play us from 2024-28. The only games Utah has scheduled beyond 2028 are Dixie St in 2030, LSU in 2031, and @ LSU in 2032.
This suggests to me that Harlan wants the “make up” Home game in 2029.
Personally, I don’t agree with Harlan’s position of moving our Home game back 9 or more years. Why should we be so accomodating to the indy-WACers? It’s not like they’d have been willing to do so likewise with us. Remember that game we cancelled with the tdS after Dave Rose refused to return any of Larry Krystkowiak’s calls about Emery’s sucker punch? THAT cancelled game was a “Provo” one in 2016. And where was the 2017 game played? It was “originally” scheduled to have been played in SLC. But it wasn’t. It was played in Provo, AND we still had to pay them $80K.
It’s obvious that the tdS can’t be counted on to act in accordance to what would be deemed “fair play”, so why should WE? Especially considering that they need these games more than do we. We should be getting 2-for-1s with them, the same way the cougars used to impose on Utah State. WE’RE the ones negotiating from the position of power, so why are we bending over for them? We KNOW what ybU-p would have done had the shoe been on the other foot, so we don’t owe them a damn thing.
Harlan should have forced the return game in 2021. I know that would have forced the tdS to play only 5 Home games that year, but they’d have done the same thing to us, so f**k ’em!
GO UTES!!!
Utah @ 
Iowa 
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