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Also, Colorado is not going to dominate the Big12. They’ll win the conference here and there, but they won’t dominate. They won’t be the Big12’s Colorado.

Also, Deion won’t be there much longer.

Isn’t what we did in the Pac-12 the aim of being in the Big12? That’d be fantastic.

There are only two teams that have gone through long periods of consistently dominating a conference. That is Alabama and Ohio State. It sounds to me like your hopes or expectation are completely unattainable.

We should be aiming for something like…[Read more]

My very early pre season predictions:

1. Colorado
2. ASU
3. KSU
4. Utah
5. Iowa State
6. TCU
7. BYU
8. Baylor
9. Texas Tech
10. Oklahoma St
11. West Virginia
12. Kansas
13. UCF
14. Houston
15. Cinci
16. Arizona

Most of our losses this season were within one score despite the fact our offense was terrible. I think we bounce back next season.

I’m indifferent at this point. Wilson gave us flashes of his potential and Dampier is good but not a great thrower.

So long as the starter spot is a true competition next season, I’m OK with whatever the decision is.

I’d also like the Utes to bring in one more portal QB.

I’d welcome him back so long as there are no expectations that he’s the starter or even back up. He’d have to earn it himself.

Like what?

Great question to revisit after the portal closes. I encourage patience.

You both should give Baseball another go. I’d argue it’s been better now than ever. And the strike was a loooonnnngggg time ago.

likely the end game is a collectively bargained solution between the players and the NCAA that all NCAA colleges are beholden to. It will likely involve contracts that players have to sign and likely will include provisions for transferring and provisions for cutting players.

Kinda disagree, NFL execs are generally smart and understand that there are no rules in CFB anymore. These kids didn’t sign contracts committing them to be there for 4 years and are now trying to break the contract. It’s completely apples and oranges from the NFL.

Honestly, this is a naive sentiment in today’s age of CFB. It’s a nice statement and mentality but if you live and die by that and don’t let players come back after entering the portal, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Once you’ve committed for the season though, I’m with you 100%.

Well, yes big $$$ has played a role, but what really drove it were impactful court decisions that basically neutered the NCAA. Those court rulings had a far bigger impact on the current state of college sports than anything else.

I’ve decreased my CFB watching considerably. I still watch the Utes religiously. But beyond that it’s just parts of games here or there and I’m on a personal Big10 and SEC boycott.

I don’t disagree with your whole post, much I do agree with. But take a chill pill, we’ve had one bad year in 20. It shocks me how quickly Ute fans became like Ohio State fans.

I hate this argument so much. You act like the kids were slaves and got nothing out of it. I would have loved to have had free tuition, room and board, meals, prioritized housing, paid for tutoring, etc. Players who played at Duke or Stanford or any private school (and heck many top public schools now) made well over 100K to play football in just…[Read more]

This is the constant, I guess, shame or dilemma of sports. I mean Juan Soto just got $750m to play baseball. How perverse is that? Sports are important to our culture and society and they play a healthy role as a stress outlet for us. So they are not meaningless, but it is perverse that people are paid so much to do it. But that’s market…[Read more]

I’m sure it helps that we have his coach and they seemed to succeed from each other, but we’ll still need to offer some major NIL money, especially if the demand for him is such as it seems to be. We are not guaranteed to get him by any means.

That’s what it eventually will be, but it’s not possible right now because the players have no power or say. The courts will never enforce such contracts (hence why the restrictions on transferring were killed by the courts) because the players are not represented or “fairly compensated”. So the only way for that to happen is that the players…[Read more]

This is modern CFB. It sucks. We needs a few billionaire funders.

Man, this one hurts. Bummer.