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All you naysayers can complain about the BCS all you want. We are cheering all the way to the bank (for the second time).
It's too bad BYU can't figure out how to get to the BCS. Then maybe they would stop their whining.
is becoming the "Notre Dame" of the non-BCS schools.
It has good tradition, good past players, great ex-coach (Lavell)...But that's all.
No current talent.
Current coaches are average.
You obviously don't follow much football outside the Wasatch Front. I live on the East Coast, and personally don't care if the U or Y make it to the BCS games. But the Big East and ACC champions are getting guaranteed spots this year, and not the MWC or WAC champs? They're all the same level teams. I'll even put the MWC ahead of the Big East.
The BCS works? Are you kidding me?
But to football anyway to look at it, especially compared to some of the top football programs in the country, 2 BCS bowl games is something special. It's something the Y hasn't experienced and maybe they can beat a 4th or 5th Pac-10 team with a 3rd or 4th string QB on a last second field goal block again like UCLA last year. I think the U bowl game will be much more interesting.
And the BCS thing. There is nothing in the world like it. It has to be the dumbest, most crazy system on the planet. When you try and explain it to someone outside the US they just look at you like your crazy or your joking.
is becoming the "Notre Dame" of the non-BCS schools."
10-2 past three years, MWC conference champs 2/3 years.
How does Utah stack up overe those three years? (Try not to go off-topic--simple question).
Ute Basketball: Tell us more about the BCI tournament.
You Ute kids keep splashing over in the kids pool. You jump out once in awhile into the adult pool, but run right back. That's why Utes do NOT want a playoff. Their afraid to man up and play for real.
Though so.
Too bad for Boise. It looks like they will be going to the Humanitarian Bowl this year.
Unless they knew their undefeated record was a sham and that they would get destroyed if they stepped on the field with a real team.
Unless they were hoping to sneak by with a game against Cincinnati or W Virginia.
Unless all they really cared about was 30 pieces of silver to keep them from whining about an unfair BCS.
In 35 years as an SEC fan I have never once heard other fans talk about money relating to bowls or the BCS. Bloggers here constantly whine about money and I have wondered what they were talking about. In my experience it was always about match-ups and getting a chance to play the best opponent you could get to show how good you were.
Maybe for Utes it is really just about the money, sneak out with the payoff; forget going for the title.
That way no need to fear a "crap in your shorts" game vs Alabama or Texas or Florida. (Didn't you decline a chance to play Texas already?)
hint:BCS does NOT work.A Playoff would work.
All of this cold hard cash just adds to our impressive 610 million dollar endowment. Maybe if BYU could scrap together enough talent to get invited to a BCS bowl, their own endowment wouldn't be so small and they could beef up their academics and athletic programs.
Just keep dreaming about changing the BCS my friend. Maybe if you try hard enough the BCS will change. Keep hope alive. Never let anyone tell you no.
Read it again.
No BYU here.
We get plenty of MILLION$
each year in the $EC.
(Two BC$ bowls and 8 or 9 total bowls each year will do that for you)
When Utah get spanked by a real team
we'll see whose 'cry-baby nerve' gets hit.
(bring tissues)
Much of this money will go to academics and cancer research. Utah has, according to U.S. World Report, the 3rd best cancer research institute in the world. That money from the BCS could literally save lives.
Ute fans can easily see past the prestige of our football program and we understand what the really important things in life are. We know that the real heroes in life are not made on the football field, but out in the real world trying to make the world a better place for humanity. That is what the University does every single day.
Go back to your SEC and your dreams of changing the BCS playoff system. The Utes will go on changing the world (with help from the BCS cash).
ps
don't forget the tissues
That was your comeback? I have to say that was pretty weak man. Maybe you should call it a night and try again tomorrow.
All you could come up with was "ZZZZZzzzz..."?!
Real weak dude.
Nice comeback. How long did it take you to come up with this gem?
Lame, lame, lame.
2001 Luke Staley Doak Walker Award
1991 Ty Detmer Davey O'Brien Award
1990 Ty Detmer Davey O'Brien Award
1990 Ty Detmer Heisman Memorial Trophy
1990 Ty Detmer Maxwell Award
1989 Mo Elewonibi Outland Trophy
1986 Jason Buck Outland Trophy
1984 National Championship
1983 Steve Young Davey O'Brien Award
1981 Jim McMahon Davey O'Brien Award
Top twenty in the country three years in a row.
Utah:
Just some made up endowment figures.
Call us when Utah get's any National Prestige...
Any more "advise" for BYU fans?
You should be aware that "Any more" is actually spelled anymore. It is one word, not two.
I guess they don't teach you that at BYU.
lol
LOL
How 'bout this:
> $610million is a pathetically small endowment
> Sorry, there won't be all that much BCS money and it won't be going to the endowment.
> If Utah is going to "change the world" with it's BCS spare change the SEC will be able to "change the universe". Look up the difference in payout.
> This article and post thread are about the 'BCS'.
"We don't really care about football we are curing cancer"
is like saying
"Our cheerleaders are 'special' (and we put in artificial turf to keep them from grazing on the sidelines)"
Utah's 610 million endowment is bigger than any SEC member's endowment. Look it up.
Cash money baby!! It's all about the green.
2nd, some Ute fans are beneath contempt. Floating just somewhere above pity.
3rd, hate to disagree with you, but "any more" is correct, "anymore" would relate to time, not quantity, as in, "I don't want to listen to inflated Ute fans anymore."
Stick with diagraming "ZZZZZZZZzzzzzz," it's more your speed.
OK, I will:
Vanderbilt $3.49 Billion
Florida $1.22 Billion
Tennessee $1.oo Billion
Arkansas $ 876 Million
Kentucky $ 831 Million
Alabama $ 777 Million
Georgia $ 618 Million
BCS works as well as it can without a playoff system.
The fact that they ignor BYU is only because BYU does not win enough. It's kind of simple.
BYU supporters would have the Y in the National Championship game every year if they had their way. Just because they lose doesn't mean they're not the best, right!!!!
Silly fans, sports is something you have to prove on the field, not in the mouth.
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