utefansince79

That’s exactly why I don’t like to bad-mouth officials as it makes me look bad.

Been reading lots of postings from frustrated Utah fans saying negative things about the team and coaches for a while so statements from fools from other fan bases won’t really hurt my feelings.

But sometimes visitors are abusive in statements about our team, program, and fans, they can go a bit too far.

Certainly fans have a right to gripe. I choose to avoid it as others will often just call me a sore loser. The holding call changed the outcome of the game and was a case of an official deciding he was more important than the players and like I noted was a call a team first in the conference gets against a bottom feeder. We just need to be a…[Read more]

As far as ‘season of destiny” (and 1984) goes.

They keep on winning, BYU won’t face a 6-5 Michigan team for the title, but will face the likes of Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas, etc. and need to beat several of them to lift the trophy. That will show how good they really are. (Glad they fixed that, was rather unhappy our 2004 team ended up…[Read more]

Was a gut wrenching heart breaker. We twice thought we had the game won but wasn’t meant to be.

Thought long and hard the last few days before making any statements. Will first emphasize our offensive struggles in the second half cost us that game. (Losing Kuithe was of course a big blow) I am one to try to never blame officials for a loss.…[Read more]

Might be one thing that could help Utah and/or hurt BYU. Utah had massive expectations this year and when we started struggling against Arizona (all those early trips into the Red Zone where we failed to put the ball over the goal line) it all started to unravel. All the pressure is on BYU tomorrow and Utah is just playing for pride (and…[Read more]

I think Utah has been playing below our abilities (even with injuries) and BYU a bit above theirs. But momentum and confidence are sky high for the Cougars and rather low for Utah.

My heart is with Utah, and will be there tomorrow night to cheer for my team, but will be quite pleasantly surprised if we can pull this one off.

Will be curious to see the reception he gets when we visit the Marriott Center.

Sat through two doinks over the years. First was Kenashiro (for Utah) damned good kicker but had horrible timing on the few kicks he missed (in San Diego in OT and in Rice-Eccles against BYU. Other was the 2012 one (students rushed the field 3 times)

Have a strong moral and ethical objection to ever bet against my team.

IF Utah had lived up to expectations and came in with just one or zero losses) against an undefeated BYU team, what an epic matchup this could have been Saturday. (Thinking back to 1994 where both teams finished high in the rankings and Utah won after Cal Beck ran back a KO return deep into Cougar territory to get up the winning score).

Have to…[Read more]

The “shark” will be a lot of fun to watch.

Half a hundred trey attempts (which shattered the old team record of 40) is unsettling. Nights when those shots don’t fall will be rough. Hopefully we can be able to get into the paint more in conference play.

Really wish we would beef up the pre-season schedule.

Heartbreaker for the Utes, but one of the most exciting games I’ve ever attended. BYU was favored in that game and I left proud of the Utes for their effort.

My favorite will always be 34-31 in Provo in 1993. Every BYU fan around us was laughing saying Chris Yergensen (who had already missed a few kicks including a PAT) would miss by a mile,…[Read more]

Cold but dry. Easy to stay relatively comfortable.

Some of the fans brought duck calls to the games …..

While we need much more production from our struggling offense, we also need some “chaos plays” from our defense. We don’t really give up too many points, but need a few sacks and turnovers which have been few and far between this year.

Nice to watch a Ute victory after a rather rough month on the football field.

Would like to see more inside play as some nights those treys simply won’t fall.

Hope we get some of our post players back soon.

Guess Lohner will join in a few weeks. Will be interesting to see the reception he gets in Provo.

Found it curious that after starting…[Read more]

I’m just glad I didn’t go on any of the Big12 boards a few months ago boasting and bragging that we would dominate. Some of us that did (yes some were allegedly BYU fans, but some of it was our own fans) are having to eat some humble pie the last few weeks.

A few favorites

34-31 in Provo in 93. Greatest sporting moment of my life and was in Provo to witness it.
34-31 next year in Salt Lake. Both teams had fine teams hat year. Showed that the previous year wasn’t a fluke (last 2 Utah wins in 1978 and 1988 had been followed by Cougar blowouts the following year)
2002 (forget exact score) Doman led…[Read more]

Definitely losing the battle in the trenches which is as much as anything why we’ve lost 4 straight.