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Utah Utes football: Team back to work, sans opponent

If the Yewts play Florida, their "fans" will not know who to root for- Urban or Yewtah! He left your mickey mouse program, and you still root for Urban more than you root for the Yewts! Yewtah can't fill their stadium until BYU comes to town, & it's the only game the Yewts care about. Did you see how Yewt fan celebrated when they actually beat BYU? It's all they care about. They're obsessed with BYU because they want to be us & know they'll never be good enough. They'll always be our inferior red headed step child.

Whittingham gets paid plenty of money, why would he want to go to a crappy Washington team? He may make more money initially, but after he gets fired in 3 years because that team is too terrible to turn around, he will end up loosing a life time of good money at Utah. Don't fix it if it aint broken. Stay at Utah and create yourself a nice legacy.

I really hope Utah draws a better opponent than Pitt so we can all see how badly they would lose vs. quality competition. You people think because you beat a 'name' school once in a while or someone in a BCS conference that you are world beaters.

If Utah and BYU had to play EVERY week in a conference like the PAC 10 or BIG 12, the best they would finish is third or fourth. Utah has NEVER beaten a school that has finished in the top 10 at the end of the season.

I challenge you to name one school Utah has beaten that has finished in the top 2 of their BCS conference.

The late date of their bowl game may allow Utah to keep Whittingham if Washington decides to make their coaching decision before early January.

The fact that Kyle is willing to listen to offers could either be a ploy for a raise at Utah, or a sign that Kyle is ready to move for the right price.

max hall just threw another int.

"[Utes are] obsessed with BYU because they want to be us & know they'll never be good enough."

...said the tdS fan who was first to comment on a Ute article. You're here since nationally, one of our programs is RECOGNIZED and HEADING TO PHOENIX or NEW ORLEANS, while the OTHER program is irrelevant and nobody really cares where they're going.

You REALLY have to hand it to tdS fans. Poor sports to the end. I LOVE how they can't spell either Utah or Utes, but rather go for the phonetic approach and think they're clever. Let me ask you all something...How many letters are in Utah? How many letters are in Yewtah? Which is the most efficient spelling? How many of you actually LIVE in Utah/Yewtah? How many letters are in Ute? How many letters are in Yewt? How does insulting a Native American tribe really effect fans from THE University of Utah? How do you insult Native Americans and call US classless?

2 BCS appearances to 0. Utes don't need to envy anybody. Sounds like a BYU fan needs to come to terms with their own insecurities.

P.S. The Yewts thing is stale to even BYU fans, just like the Zoobs is to Utah fans.

C'mon now zoobies..Dont be jealous. Just because you choked your season away..There is always Las Vegas to make you feel better..

Laverl is right!! The Utes want to be exactly like TDS. Hype up an overated QB and offensive line, then have 6 TO's against the highest rank team we play all year. Or better yet, settle for mediocracy and pretend like we have already done what it takes to get to 2 BCS bowls.

2004- Pitt, finished first in the Big East.

Be totally invested in a Quest to live right (on game day at least).

Signed,
Bronco Collie (aka Pony Poodle)

From Vegas Ute:

Easy to answer if I understand your request:

"I challenge you to name one school Utah has beaten that has finished in the top 2 of their BCS conference."

West Virginia, USC, UCLA, Oregon State, Arizona State, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Louisville.

I think a couple of those have finished in the top 10 as well.

Just like Utah, some years their up, some years.
their down.

Mediocre GA Tech of the crappy ACC, beats mighty GA of the SEC at home. GA finished 1 game back of FL in the SEC East.

Your comments about BYU and Utah are like painting a portrait with a white washing brush. You cover a lot of area without any detail.

Utah's program has been consistantly improving, while some old "Big" names are dwindling, i.e. Notre Dame, Nebraska, Washington. These teams have all won multiple NCAA football championships, and then fallen on hard times.

Don't try to paint Utah, BYU, and TCU with that big brush. The proof is in the details. One of those details is the strength and character of a team at the end of the season, not what was at the beginning.

Utah by 5.

just picked off Hall

Pitt was in the top 2 of a BCS conference.

Listen clown, Utah just beat Oregon State who just finished 2nd in the Pac 10 THIS YEAR, a 2nd place team from a BCS conference - so there's your answer. That was easy. We didn't need help from the officials to barely beat a Pac 10 team (0-10 Washington) who happens to be the worst and only team in D1 football without a win. Just get over the fact that the Utes are 5-2 against your kitties the past 7 years, and those 2 losses were only because you were living right and magic happened those two years, but the other 5 years we were more righteous. Keep whining.

Since my Longhorns have been robbed by OU and the BCS computers, I must look forward to watching UT play the Utes in the Fiesta Bowl. Should Utah win I don't know if I can handle all of the abuse from Ute friends. But I don't think I have much to worry about.

Colt McCoy with a chip on his shoulder pounding the Utes . . . Priceless.

It's not Utah's fault they haven't beat a "quality" team. The "quality" teams are just plain scared to death of them.

The Utes have played well enough, have benefited from the opponent's mistakes (TCU kicker, BYU QB, etc.) and have the record to vault them into a BCS game against one of the other top teams in the country. They will get to test themselves against the best, which is what every athlete and every team wants. Good for them. I have immense respect for the Utah TEAM. The day of reckoning comes when the team has to back up the fans' arrogance. Utah fans will either be validated or humiliated. However, something tells me that even if the Utes lose and the Cougars win the bowl games, The Utes will crow "I'd rather lose a BCS bowl game than win the LV Bowl!!" Such is the misplaced logic of the typical frothy-mouthed, deranged Ute fan (is there any other kind?), who really takes more pleasure in BYU losing than Utah winning. Go ahead, Ute fans, prove me wrong if the Utes lose and the Cougs win. Oh by the way, Best of Luck to the Ute TEAM in their bowl. Too bad a classy TEAM has to drag along such classless fans after them.

Hey! Several of those questions are unfair. Afterall, the answers have numbers in them, and we all know tdS fans can�t count or do math. Especially LaVerl, who thinks we can�t fill a stadium despite averaging an attendance capacity of over 100%.

Try asking some OTHER questions that don�t require quantification. Like, �what difference does spectator attendance matter ANYWAY when you�re getting blown out 48-24?� You see there? The math had already been done. Now they can open their scriptures and seek out the answer.

Don't forget, Michigan has won multiple Big Ten titles and National championships.