PhiladelphiaUte

The zoobies had been claiming to have been in “secret negotiations” with the Pac-10 since at least my freshman year (1989) when I was attending ybU-p.

After transferring to Utah in the ’90s, the Daily Utah Chronicle used to do a week-long spread during the week leading up to the “Holy War”, which included interviews with both student bodies.…[Read more]

Utah went 10-4, 10-4, and 8-5, for a total 3-yr record of 28-13 (.683). Okla St went 12-2, 7-6, and 10-4, for a total 3-yr record of 29-12. That’s 41 games apiece.

And don’t forget the new oft repeated shibboleth that Utah is mediocre because we lost 4/4/5 games over the past 3-yrs, And would therefore be a poor pick to win the Big 12.

But if losing 13 game in 3-yrs makes us such a long shot to win the Big 12, who then should be the favorite? Oklahoma St? They’d lost 12 games over that same span. Is a…[Read more]

Then he’s really not all that confident.

Still, if Utah wins the Big 12, then he’s going to have egg on his face, and doggy poo in his dish.

El Jefe AND Soupi were bird-dogging me! They even went so far as “taunting” me during my timeout periods, insisting that theirs was forum for cougar fans, so they could say whatever they wanted, but no such license for Ute fans. So it’s okay for the Yners to post racially insensitive terms such as “Yewt“, but I can’t say “2-star bonanza.”

Would if I could, but I’d been banned for life. Too many of my posts pointing out that the kids they’d just received a “commitment” from was only a 2-star recruit.

#2StarBonanza

What if, if you poach a kid who is already involved with an NIL deal, the receiving institution must pay the the poached institution the value of the NIL deal already in place? That’ll create a disincentive to making “have not” institutions from turning them into “farm teams”. Like when Alabama was tampering with Rising and Kinkaid.

Those have been my experiences as well. And coincidentally, I’d lived in all those cities as well. Plus several others.

I like this one better.

That said, it’s more likely UCLA gets in, and Utah gets bumped out.

We absolutely will take a media hit in the Big 12. We’d been relegated to the PACN for 5 games last year in a 12-team league. Now we’re headed to a 16-team league. So now we’re going to be splitting the “national” games with more teams.

What’a the difference between a “road” and an “away” game?

We’re actually two games into the season now, having already lost to Ohio St 2-wks ago. The Ohio St game was at least a competitive one. The Denver game leaves us with nothing to hang our hat on. Yes, they’re a Top-10 team, and yes we weren’t expected try beat them, but we didn’t look competitive against Denver.

Next week’s game vs Syracuse…[Read more]

With National Letter of Intent Day coming tomorrow, who has any inside information as to who we’d most likely sign?

Tides raise all ships. Once “unequal revenue sharing” rears its ugly head, that’s when “prima donnas” emerge, and conferences fall apart.

I don’t recall Apo being that great of a WR. Is he a good “coach”? What are his credentials?

I wouldn’t put the tdS as one of our tougher opponents. Tech and Iowa St will be tougher than ybu-p.

The high ranking could be a product of a less challenging schedule though. Easier slates tend to result in a greater amount of wins. And more wins brings about higher rankings. Phil Steele points this out every year when he differentiates between “where teams are expected to finish by season’s end” and “how good a team really is”.

Is Arizona the exception? I though DeLaura transferred in from Wazzu.

Utah will play at UCF in 2024, but the only game set with a hard date are our nonconference games. For our conference schedule, you’ll need to periodically follow up on this website:

2024 Utah Utes football schedule