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[Stone]

I’ll engage on this again, because I think it is an interesting debate.

To summarize, I prefer an 8-team playoff, with auto bids for all P5 champs, three at large, with one of the three at large being a G5 team (all at large selected by committee). I think this makes for a more fun season for all FBS teams and fans. So that is my primary reason for wanting it: it would be more fun for all.

The other reason why I think that system is better is because otherwise there is effectively no way for a G5 team to ever qualify. They can only play who they can play. A system that ensures they cannot qualify for the playoff before they have even played a game is not just un-fun, it is unfair because there is effectively nothing those schools can do to qualify. Due to their conference affiliation, G5 schools can never play a schedule that would be hard enough in the eyes of some. And yet every G5 school would jump at the chance to join a P5 conference and the benefits associated with them.

Put this in a different context: a system where *anyone* can be president, but only if they can demonstrate an excellent education (i.e. SOS); but only Ivy League schools are considered an excellent education and certain people are excluded from Ivy League schools. Those excluded people can get all the education they can, but because they are excluded from Ivy League schools, they can never be president. Or a situation where *anyone* can participate in an election, but just so long as you are a certain race…oh, nothing you can do to change your race, well, sorry.  That is essentially what the playoff is today: *any* team can play in the playoff, so long as your SOS is strong enough…oh, there is nothing you can do to improve your conference schedule, well, sorry.

If you want to put G5 schools in a different division and say they are not part of the playoff system, fine, at least that is facially honest. The BCS and the current playoff are classic monopoloy/cartel systems where there are predetermined losers and winners before the first ball is snapped every season. I prefer a meritocracy where every team legitimately has a shot to play their way into the playoff. One can say that UCF (or Utah in 04 and 08) would never have survived a P5 schedule, maybe so, but that is just speculation because they do not have the opportunity to play that schedule, despite the fact that they would willingly jump at the chance to join a P5 conference and do so. 

 

 

[Anonymous]

I don’t want to talk s**t about Wilson. Ute fan from a dedicated family of Ute fans. Victim of circumstance. I feel bad for the kid, being associated with a 2nd or 3rd tier program that is going nowhere. I also know what it’s like having to settle. Poor kid. 

[Duhwayne]

There is a reason their highs are really high and their lows are really low. They are bred to be that way. Most people are just watching ball. BYU fans are watching ball for Jesus.

Diagnostic criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
These criteria are obsolete.
DSM Criteria
DSM Version
DSM IV – TR
DSM Criteria
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

(3) believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

(4) requires excessive admiration

(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

[Stone]

This is the thing with coaching changes, even hires considered to be home run hires can struggle. Sure, it may change and Chip may help UCLA reach new heights in a few years, but maybe not. Coaching changes can work out great, but there are risks associated with them. See also Nebraska, Arkansas, and Florida State this year. There are examples of great improvements immediately (see Urban Meyer at Utah), but it can be a crapshoot. Personally, I would keep Whit as long as he wants to stay. Could we get someone better, maybe, but maybe not. Even if Chip Kelly or Scott Frost were the replacement (and I doubt they would be), things may not improve for quite awhile (if ever) over Whit.

[Tony (admin)]

This W fan’s posts have three IP addresses associated with them. Two resolve to Ogden and the other to SLC. So either a W fan living in Utah or… a witch!

[UteFanatic]

I will always be grateful for what Urban did for Utah while he was here, but his behavior over the years has shown that he lacks integrity and character. I’m glad he is longer associated with Utah, he is not a good person.

[SkinyUte]

but UF.N should change its name to something that doesn’t include Utes or Utah, I don’t want people to associate it with Ute fans.

The irony of this statement coming from a Moose alt is not lost on me.

[Duhwayne]

Nowadays new tvs are giant ipads, so you can install Sling from the android account associated with the tv. You will need a broadband subscription too. Honestly you’re not going to come away with that much cheaper monthly

I use sling, which also allows you record P12 games. TVs also have chromecast built in, so you can cast old games too.

[Utah]

People need to chill out with Bernard. 

He had two counts of public disturbance. The video has Bernard talking to the cops. They had been there earlier, cops came, told them to be quiet. Bernard left his house, his friend says that the other people said they would leave. He comes back and they are still there. 

The cop says he will call his coach to settle it OR he can do the ticket. Bernard says to call the coach. The cop then gives him the ticket. 

Then the cop starts threatening Bernard with honor code stuff. Bernard says F**K the honor code, which is ALWAYS the right answer. 

The cop is threatening to have Bernard kicked off the team. The cop keeps cutting him off and won’t let Bernard speak. 

And the cop says that this “stuff” will ruin his college career. 

The Bernard says he doesn’t have $1,000 for the ticket. 

Then at the end, the manager comes in the room and says that he “has to hear” what is going on between the cops and Bernard. And Bernard gets mad, calls him a racial slur, tells the manager he will hit him, that he hates him, and he won’t let Bernard shut the door. The manager says that it is his property and he can go whereever he wants to go. Bernard says that he will strangle him. And the manager says that he has to record it. 

The cops tell the manager to close the door and the manager won’t do it. 

Here’s my take on all of it: 

I’d bet that if Bernard is at any other school, this is never an issue. You have someone that has called the cops on Bernard for being loud, then trys to go into Bernard’s house and record it, when he isn’t welcome. 

Bernard acts wrongly, but EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US WOULD HAVE GOTTEN MAD AS WELL. 

Now, we probably wouldn’t threaten to strangle someone, and that was too far. 

But it wasn’t kick off the team too far. It wasn’t get suspended too far. It wasn’t anything, but an issue that the coaches take care of with extra work and apologies to the person he was talking to. 

As far as the “arrest”, he was taken in for suspiscion of DUI. As far as I know, he was never charged with anything. 

All of this is a lot of mormon, getting offended at a lot of nothing. If he was at any other school, there would have never been a “manager” trying to bust him for honor code violations and the suspicion of DUI would have made the news then nothing would have ever come of it, like how when Travis Wilson was found drinking alcohol underage when he was at Utah. 

But, when you add in the weird-o, pshyco environment of BYU, you get these things, that are not great, but not nearly the drama that it turns out to be. 

He was a college kid, being too loud at 1:30 in the morning. That is it. 

Why anyone would associate with the toxic environment that is BYU, blows my mind. 

[Utah]

Ha ha. There is more to the story than that. It basically boils down to because Kalani screwed him over in the way he was released, he has to have an Associate’s Degree to transfer to another school. So, he has to have a degree, while most transfers just need to be admitted and sit out a year. 

Had Kalani released him in August when he wanted to be released, he would have been on the team all last year, and ready to go right now, instead of having to do all this academic stuff. 

One more example of how shady Kalani is and why I want nothing to do with him when he is fired at BYU.