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[UteFanatic]

There’s always been a contingency of BYU fans who are arrogant, self-righteous, holier-than-thou losers. Kind of a trademark of their fanbase. Mixing religion and sports always results in weird fans that think their teams are divinely selected and look down on other fanbases as godless heathens.

Even on Cougarboard, where that kind of behavior is common, some of their fans get called out for being insufferable. There’s this one dude on Twitter, his name is Jalenooper or something, that verbally accosted a Ute fan at Scheel’s over a tweet. A tweet! 

The vitriol has definitely ramped up the last two years. It’s to be expected with rivals when one program is successful and the other is not. The back-to-back conference championships combined with Utah lapping them in recruiting has them really fired up.

It’s mostly online, though. Haven’t had any BYU fans talk s**t to me in real life. Maybe that’s because I only associate with reasonable fans that understand winning 1 out of the last 10 games with doesn’t really give them much to work with. 

[The Miami Ute]

Makes you wonder though. There are costs (personal and professional) associated with moving to another program with just one year of eligibility left. I mean, you’re going from an environment that you’re completely familiar with to one completely different (system, culture, climate, etc…). In addition, no matter their record last year, A&M’s roster is stacked on both sides of the ball and there are absolutely zero guarantees that Mataele will even sniff the field on a team that probably will be worse (record-wise) than Utah.

[RedRocks]

I think you missed the point of my original comment/question on why people associate ‘god’ with trivial worldly ‘things’ and latched on to my final statement where I wished it would stay out of football.

Should people be able to ‘thank god’ after winning a game? Sure. I think it is strange, but sure. Doesn’t change the fact that I wish they wouldn’t. It also doesn’t mean that I would advocate for saying they can’t.

[2008 National Champ]

They’ve been trying to get him there since he got on campus. He struggled with it in 2020 and all of the injuries on the other side in 2021 didn’t give much opportunity. Also, having Nephi be so flexible allowed Clark to stay outside while Nephi played a hybrid LB/S instead of the traditional CB/S that you associate with the Nickel.

JT, Vaughn and Marks being healthy and playing with more confidence allows Phillips to move to Nickel which is a huge upgrade over Mataele, even if the true math is Phillips/Vaughn > Phillips/Mataele. With Jaylon Johnson, it was an exceptional cover corner who would shut down one guy. With Clark, the potential is that by lining up all over the field, the offense never knows who he is covering which can be a force multiplier. I believe that his 3 picks last week were against 3 different receivers and field/boundary alignments didn’t matter.

Assuming competent play out of the corners, having Phillips and Bishop be equally adept at pass coverage and run support (Phillips shut down either a 3rd and 2 or 4th and 2 run while the game was still in doubt) will take a lot of pressure off the front 6. I don’t know if the move is official but even if it stays 50/50 like last week it really enhances Scalley’s options. Not to mention that in 2023, either Ritchie or Bishop will play the nickel and the corners will stay the same so you are getting your best alignment now while building experience for the future ensuring that Phillips getting drafted will not gut your secondary.

[EagleMountainUte]

I had a close friend who sat in one of the corners from his pics. He had a blast!  Said it was the loudest stadium he has been been to. 
Wish I could have gone honestly. Floridans are some of the nicest people I have associated with. 

[Tony (admin)]

There is a Ute Alumni associate tailgate which is $75/head.  After the awful food at the Utah tailgate at the rose bowl I’m going to take my chances elsewehre. 

[ProudUte]

You seem to be a decent BYU fan and realize that much that is posted on the CB is in poor taste.  I have seen posts like, “If you are a Utah fan and live in my ward, I will not associate with you.”  How pathetic is that?

In any event, I have enjoyed your posts and as far as I am concerned – you are always welcome here.

By the way, you mentioned that there are other subjects on the CB that are good.  I believe this is true.  I got some good travel tips there and my son has followed some of the investment advice there and has had success.

I do have a question for you.  How can the CB stand behind ZW with what he has said and done and trash someone like Eric Weddle who is a good example?  Also, as far as I know, Eric has never trashed BYU, he just played for the enemy.  I am not saying they shouldn’t forgive Wilson, but I don’t get the hate towards Eric Weddle.

 

[DrJazzy]

Thanks for weighing in. 

I would say Utah fans weren’t anymore insufferable or arrogant about the changing of the CF landscape than BYU fans are now. But I am also clearly biased! 

Also we fully recognize Utah caught lightening in a bottle – but it was such a cool and one of a kind moment for us. Coming off of 2 BCS bowl wins in 4 years we felt like we got promoted from the little leagues to the pros, and the Pac10 at the time was a premier conference with an arrow that was pointing up. The Pac 10 did wonders for recruiting, money for the program, prestige, etc. We were associated with schools like Stanford, USC, Cal, etc. Damn right we were arrogant about it! 

I fully disagree with the CB mentality of victim blaming (religious bigotry) as the reason why BYU didn’t get the call up early. 

I do feel like the arrogance of BYU fans on CB is much more insufferable – y’all ain’t even officially play your first B12 game yet. Overall, BYU def is in a better place since the P10 will likely lose Or/Wash as soon as the B10 comes calling and there goes the end of the conference. 

Would be super happy to join y’all in the B12 – hope that happens of course if the P10 folds. 

Both BYU and Utah lose in the long run though with the consolidation of football to two power conferences – which is a shame. 

You’ll really enjoy being part of a conference again – haha and hopefully understand why we all wore Pac12 gear early on. 

Cheers and thanks for visiting – swing on by more often and we can run more rivalry smack!! 

[Rick]

Tough to argue with your projections but I wouldn’t associate the word “shaky” with the linebackers. There’s just too much talent when you consider that the Calvert’s, Tufaga and Mata’afa are not in the top four. We’ve been spoiled the last two seasons but I think they’ll perform well. It may take a few games but I think they’ll be strong. I realize that we can’t afford to be mediocre against Florida but that may be the case. If it is, hopefully other position groups will step up.

By the way, I’m told that Diabate, Reid, Barton, one of the Calvert’s (don’t know which), Medlock and Furey are the top six and they are all playing at a high level. Communication has been an important issue. Scalley talked about it this week in an interview. He said something like the red zone communication in the scrimmage wasn’t where it needed to be but it’s been better this week in practice.

[PNW Ute]

Utah had total football revenues of $65.6 Million for the fiscal year ending July 2020 (last year’s wasn’t posted yet, and the year before was greatly affected by Covid, so I went back two years.)

Utah Athletic Revenues and Expenses – 2020

 

Meanwhile, Utah reported $641 Million in research funding for the fiscal year ending July 2021.

Utah Research Funding – 2021

 

So, yeah, thinking that presidents should be more concerned with athletics than academics doesn’t even make sense on an economics level. There’s a reason the Pac-12 presidents wanted to be associated with like-minded research universities. Academic prestige brings in a lot more than football prestige…