GameForAnyFuss

Can we get an OnlyU category created on this board?

No
No
Nooooo

I thought we had good tailgating as well. Then I went to a Michigan game. And then I went to a Texas game.

It’s like comparing our marching band to Stanford’s. I love what we’ve got here. The quality is really good. But it’s just at a different level elsewhere.

Are they melting down about whether or not to fire their coach?

I wonder what it’s like to be on a message board where fans are melting down about whether or not to fire their coach?

You nailed it. Everybody’s getting riled up about a coaching decision (be it right or wrong) that probably didn’t affect the outcome of the game.

In other words, moonset just before kickoff? 😉

Seriously, I’m happy to take tickets from anyone in the “too late/too cold” camp. My mom (class of 1970) is in town for the weekend and she hasn’t been to a Utah game since her college days. I’d love to surprise her.

When I think about what he could do with an o-line in front of him, I get a very special tingly feeling inside.

You’ve missed my point completely.

Oklahoma was already a P5 team when Bob Stoops took over.
Florida was already a P5 team when Urban Meyer took over.
Ohio St. was already a P5 team when Urban Meyer took over.
Oregon was already a P5 team when Chip Kelly took over.
LSU was already a P5 team when Nick Saban took over.
Washington was already a P5…[Read more]

His record in conference is average. Why are people having a hard time accepting the reality of this?

Conversely, why are some people having a hard time accepting the reality that it takes most programs a long time – a decade or more – to be consistently good in a P5 conference. Are there exceptions? Sure. But most of the time it takes a while to…[Read more]

That’s my thinking as well. I really can’t get too worked up about the timeout because I don’t think it impacted our odds of winning too much.

After calling the timeout, I figured we had about an 80% chance of losing (which is what happened).
If we hadn’t called the timeout and sent the game to OT, I figured we had about an 80% chance of…[Read more]

Meanwhile, the coach they really wanted (but wouldn’t take the job because Holmoe insisted that Detmer be his OC) has a great chance to lead a service academy to a win over #8 Notre Dame on the road.

I’ll say the same thing I say every week. It will come down to a combination of turnover margin and penalties.

I’ll try to temper expectations a little bit. They say that a team is never as bad as its worst loss and never as good as its best win. Obviously we haven’t lost yet, but this is by far our best win (so far). I doubt we are quite this good. I thought rebounding would be a concern this year, and I think that is the case – we still got outrebounded…[Read more]

They trashed Iowa St. also without MPJ. Mizzou is a pretty good team even without their star.

What Utah is doing tonight is an extremely positive surprise.

Why the holy hell are we playing BYU ever?

No, but only fair weather fans dump their tickets when their team loses.

Getting upset and dumping tickets are two very different things.

I vote for 5-5

Philosophical question: Should people who buy upper bowl tickets but don’t have the wherewithal to sneak down into the lower bowl be allowed to see the fancy new video boards? 😉

(Just kidding you, dude)

I’ll gladly take tickets from anyone for whom the game is too late/too cold.

The more I watch us play, the more certain I am that 95% of our problem is line play – on both sides of the ball. And I’m prepared to die on that hill.