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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.

Will be interesting to see how the high-profile well-paid athletes playing in the Marriot Center perform. On paper they look so strong, but can the newcomers all play together as the best team?

Utah’s (and BYU’s) greatest teams making deep runs in March over the years were groups of players who had many years together. But it is a whole new…[Read more]

And please don’t throw items at opposing fans.

Hopefully Hunter Erickson who went 5-6 on treys can light it up like that against Big12 opponents.

Kuithe and Bernard seemed to be playing very p*ssed off last week. Need others to do the same.

I was around for the late 70s and all of the 80s. Tough years but those teams were picked nowhere near the top of the WAC in pre-season predictions. Given they were predicted to win the Big12 and make the playoffs, the collapse of this team is rather a disappointment. But I’ll still be cheering for them. As always a Utah man sir and will be…[Read more]

At the start of the year, I anticipated a lot of late home game starts during conference play due to the fact that only 5 teams out of 16 are in the Mountain (zero in Pacific) time zone and it isn’t feasible to have the late slots go to teams in the Central and Eastern time zones.

Back in the Pac 12 those late games could be assigned to any of…[Read more]

59-34 sounds better than 7-13 at this point

More chaos plays by the defense would help. Only non-offensive TD has been the blocked field goal return. Usually by now our defense has had a few scores.

I can’t remember which exact game (was a few years ago). But Utes were on a long drive (combination of passes and successful runs) and were down at about the five yard line right in front of us in section 33. They run a reverse and lose a lot of yards and I couldn’t help but cry out “A REVERSE!?!?!?”

Could get very ugly. The transfer from Real Madrid (hoops not soccer, and they are a damned good professional basketball squad considered to be one of the very best European teams) will likely be paid far more in Provo then he made with his former team.

College sports, in particular hoops, are going to be about which schools have donors/sponsors…[Read more]

Rather hard to believe that Singer has zero touchdowns so far this season.

“You mean there is still a chance”? Was a line near the end of Dumb and Dumber. Even if we win out to go 9-3, virtually zero chance we are in the Big12 title game.

AS this point I’m just hoping for a .500 year and a Holy War contest that doesn’t bring back bad memories of the 80s (including a rainy 50 point drubbing in Salt Lake). But I…[Read more]