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No Pulisic (starting), Reyna, Dest for the US. Mexico’s top 3 center backs not available.

This is going to be a war of attrition and pretty compelling sport.

That’s a fairly typical HR move for any organization where there’s evidence or suspicion of serious wrongdoing. You suspend the person to keep them away from witnesses and/or keep them from intentionally harming the organization until you conclude the investigation, and then you either fire or reinstate.

Wait…we’re backing into what, now? Last I checked we had one conference loss and just laid a beatdown for the ages on a respectable team at their house. I don’t think Utah is backing into jack s–t.

Or maybe don’t hang your sense of self-worth on the ratio you’re getting from complete strangers on a message board.

Good: Everything you just said.

Bad: Stanford’s crowd. On the 96-yard TD run, my wife said “one yard for every Stanford fan.” She wasn’t exaggerating by much.

Ugly: That jacket Whit had on.

At halftime, Utah had more points than Stanford had total yards.

SEC

(gap)

PAC12/Big12/ACC Alliance

(biiiiiiiiiiig gap)

Big 12 & G5

(Don’t tell them this)

And from what I saw last night, Greer is slooooooow.

You’re absolutely right – teams with hefty bigs are going to feast on us. That’s why we’re picked 10th in the conference.

If Carlson has come up at all, then it’s from, like, 140 to 150. He still looks like a dungeon prisoner to me.

You are correct on the starting 5.

Also, I forgot to mention that they are a fun team to watch. They get out and run, and there are a couple guys who aren’t afraid to go to the hole in the halfcourt game. Craig Smith is as advertised…really pumped up when a guy makes a play. The chemistry seems to be genuinely good. I got to talk to a couple…[Read more]

I went. We won. By like 35 or so.

They started off flat and nervous but got better as the night went on. The boys play hard and are really committed on defense. Rebounding is going to be an issue. New players I liked: Worster, Jenkins, Madsen.

It was mandated? I don’t remember that. I do know that other stadiums in the U.S. have standing sections today, so it can’t be a federal law. Perhaps there’s a Utah law against it, but I doubt it.

Utah already sells SRO tickets to football games. This is just giving them a designated area.

I assume you’re referring to the Hillsborough disaster. If so, that had less to do with the standing and more to do with (a) overselling of GA tickets and (b) poor crowd control at the turnstiles. Both of those things would not be an issue at Rice-Eccles.

I have a crazy, out-of-the-box idea: Turn the SEZ into a “safe standing” area.

You haven’t heard loud and crazy until you’ve been to a soccer game in Europe or South America, and the standing-only areas are a big reason why.

I think it would be cool to be the first football stadium in America to do something like that.

This discussion about Rose Bowl scenarios is exactly what’s wrong with college football.

I actually really like the idea of the QB as a punter. Opens up the possibility of a fake punt on every 4th-and-short.

I just hope he smacks them because of BYU-Provo Campus’ own arrogance around him. He’s the second best coach they’ve ever had in their program’s history, and they ran him out of town on a rail. I hope he houses them in epic fashion just to remind them why they shouldn’t have pushed him out.

Man, that kid is <i>yoked</i> for a high schooler. Can’t wait to see what that strength would look like working in the low block.