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Others may not agree with me, but one thing I hope to NEVER hear at Rice-Eccles is the obnoxious horn used at many venues (some college football and pretty much all NHL arenas) which drowns out the noise made by fans after a score.

I want to hear the roar of the crowd, not fake noise.

A very special team. At their last regular season home game against UTEP, when they pulled the starters off with a minute left, legendary Don Haskins walked the length of the court down to the Utah bench to shake all of their hands.

(This was before the tradition of teams lining up and shaking hands at the end of the game started).

In my younger years…

Basketball – Utah Stars, didn’t really follow NBA at all, just the ABA
Hockey – Salt Lake Golden Eagles
Baseball – Cincinnati Reds

Still a Reds fan, and now a Jazz fan. Of course now a fan of all Ute team and will follow our new NHL yet-to-named team.

NFL now follow the Packers.

While it’s been six years since TDS visited Rice-Eccles, I am eager for the Arizona game, if anything, for a rather late long bomb in a game that was long past decided.

So ‘little brother’ of them

My trouble is now I have to shell out the $$$$$ for a higher system. But will be nice to have a version with the remodeled Rice-Eccles.

One thing I will always appreciate is Urban lit a fire under a once mostly apathetic student body and motivate them to pack the student section at Rice-Eccles. (Now if only someone could do that for basketball)

Why do we really care? So a bunch of Zoobs post on the Big12 board they were repeatedly drenched in beer when visiting Rice-Eccles. An Oklahoma State fan (for example) reads that, cautiously pays us a visit, is perhaps disappointed only by the fact they can’t buy a cold beer in our stadium, (but maybe walks by the tailgate lot before the game…[Read more]

Manny Hendrix played 4 years for the Running Utes then had a great career with the Cowboys.

Perhaps also have contracts that last more than one season two so they can’t transfer every off-season. Right now when the season ends, every player essentially becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Chris had early season ending injuries 2 years in a row so we’ve never really got a good look at him. Hope wherever he ends up he stays healthy and gets a chance to finally get some playing time.

Even faked out the cameras on that one.

Caps lock stuck? Or perhaps posting from a VIC-20?

In addition to our conference opener against the Cowboys, Utah TCU has the potential to be a great matchup.

But other than Clemson/FSU, every matchup listed there is Big10 or SEC teams which is no surprise.

Of course for a long time, many have wondered what on earth Jazz (which I happen to enjoy) has to do with Utah.

I perceive they mean the team and fans play and cheer at a feverish high intensity level.

Indeed on the EA College football game on XBOX (lets you customize what teams are in each conference each season) one can come up with all sorts of different configurations. I used to put the Southwest Conference (all the Texas power schools) and Big 8 back together for example. On a tangent, I am looking forward to the new edition, first in a…[Read more]

A few positives I see for this sort of thing is 10 teams in each division means potentially everyone can play all the other teams in their division every year with all teams playing 9 conference (division games) (instead of some play 8 and some play 9).

Also nice to mostly have teams closer together (instead of conferences containing teams from…[Read more]

Hopefully we’ll not repeat the mistake made in Provo (where they put one logo on the 25 and the other on the 15).

Utah fans are lamenting the loss of Worster and (to a lesser extent) Exacte. But it’s a mass exodus in Provo the last few days.