Ok I have had enough of the tinfoil hats and hand wringing on this audit thing.

[Anonymous]

Generally speaking I like to think of most Ute fans as realistic and not myopic as the team down south.  But this Audit thing is getting ridiculous.  The LDS church had nothing to do with this audit happening.  Anyone that says it is because of that really is just fulfilling their own hatred for all things LDS.

This was a subcommittee’s decision to audit the Athletic Department.  If anyone knows anything about politics you would know subcommittees do crazy s**t all of the time.  Hell the US government has been wasting countless amount of money in investigating Hilary Clinton’s use of private email account.  For some damn reason she can’t follow a simple rule.

I believe this is a case of a few idiots(BYU fans) trying to use their power inappropriately.  Which is the usual for everything in government especially in the state of Utah.  This wasn’t the ENTIRE state legislature meeting in the secret room with monitors connected to the Salt Lake Temple.  But if you want to believe that go ahead I doubt being realistic about things will change your mind.

If anything we should be upset how yet again Chris Hill has been out played by Holmoe.  The whole crap with Football scheduling made Hill cave in when Holmoe used the media again.  This seems like the same thing, Hill talks about cancelling the game.  Rose throws a hissy fit, Utah drops two games because of the stupid distraction.  Hill hasn’t been able to control little ole independent BYU at all.  I love the man for various reasons but I think Pershing will let him go off into retirement soon.

[Tony (admin)]

I don’t think anyone believes that some kind of “order” came down from some LDS quorum of the 12 on Battle Star Galactica. I do think people are smart enough to know this is bullying or “making them pay” for what they did.

[Puget Ute]

This is one time where President Newsroom didn’t weigh in on the issue.

Instead this was a byu-fan legislator acting as proxy for and in behalf of the Rivalry, which is dead.

[Anonymous]

Most of these legislature guys are local businessmen. So they are probably just chapped because this does damage the local economy in all things Rivalry.

[89ute]

I listened to the legislator Dan McCay on a radio interview this morning. I was able to listen from the beginning for about a half hour. I came away from it thinking it has nothing to do with BYU. It has to do with the lack of scheduling STATE schools. The point was brought up, Since becoming a P5, why are we bringing in teams like Idaho St, Northern Colorado, Montana St instead of Weber or SUU for football. Same with basketball, why all these various little directional schools being paid to come play us and not STATE schools? I’m stressing STATE because it was stressed many times by Rep. Dan McCay.

I’m not defending the guy, I’m a card-carrying BYU hater who never wants to play them in any sport. I came away from the interview thinking that we will be seeing much less of BYU in the future if the legislature has its way because STATE schools will be filling more OOC slots.

With respect to football, I feel certain that will never see Utah St and BYU on the schedule the same year. Utah St, like BYU is a tough game and there does not seem to be much pushback when Chris Hill says he does not want to play two intense in-state rivalry games the same year.

Based on what I heard in this interview, I feel it is not coming from BYU and it’s probably going to mean less games with BYU in the future (YAY.)

[Anonymous]

I think McCay is a USU alum, I also assumed he was behind the legislature giving USU 1.5 million to help them recruit players.

If anything needs to be audited it would be USU taking additional tax money to be a booster of USU.

[Anonymous]

I also discovered that the State of Utah covers the operating costs of that new Football facility to the tune of 2 million a year.  So again there are reasons for auditing the athletics up on the hill just timing is all wrong.  It should be done across the board at all of the public schools.

I am actually sort of interested if the athletic departments do what they claim and bring in all this money.

[Tony (admin)]

I don’t think playing these small state schools helps recruiting by the way. Another reason not to play them.

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