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University of Utah president to testify on BCS

Dr LJA | 2:00 p.m. July 2, 2009

The U of U was clearly "robbed" last football season. They obviously should have had a shot at the national title and should have gone into the championship game rated #1 in the nation. I most certainly compromised the championship game to have (in actuality) the 2nd & 3rd best teams in the nation playing to see which of them would become the "champion." Go figure. I'm a BYU Cougar but right is right and wrong is wrong and the University of Utah most certainly got "robbed," big time!

Dr. LJA | 2:05 p.m. July 2, 2009

My previous comment said "I" compromised the championship game. Sorry, I certainly don't have any ability to have done that :). It was a typo and shoud have said "It."

However I said it before, what I reallly intended to say is the the Utes most certainly were the #1 team in the nation last year. Great job to be sure. No matter what the BCS clumsily did, anyone looking at your last years season will remember you as the National NCAA Football Champions. Congratulations.

You Tube | 2:06 p.m. July 2, 2009

Anyone who hasn't seen Hitler rant about this very topic on the You Tube Video should check it out. Just search for "Hitler Sugar Bowl"

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No sympathy | 3:00 p.m. July 2, 2009

I have no sympathy for a team that drops Texas from its schedule because they think it's too "hard of a schedule" then complains that they don't get a shot at the national championship game.

No sympathy whatsoever.

I quit | 3:17 p.m. July 2, 2009

I quit commenting on the DN message boards because they omit half of my posts. The DN is as unfair as the BCS in that regard.

Steve | 4:08 p.m. July 2, 2009

No sympathy, interesting. What do you mean "drops" Texas from its schedule? No contract was ever signed. Negotiations had not proceeded to that point. What exactly do you mean by this? Lots of games get discussed and never happen. Utah scheduled Michigan right after Michigan finished #8/9 and TX finished #13 in 06-07. How were they to know TX would be so much better than MI last year?

Re:Dr.LJA | 4:33 p.m. July 2, 2009

Stop trying to pretend to be a BYU fan on here supporting the YEWTS what a joke. And if you are a BYU fan you are pathetic.

Re:Re: Dr.LJA | 5:06 p.m. July 2, 2009

Don't accuse anyone of being someone that they are not. That's such a subjective accusation!

Go bother someone else.

Dr. LJA | 5:10 p.m. July 2, 2009

I hate the utes but aso feel they were totally ripped off and deserved the chance to go for a national Title. I had season tickets for 30 years to BYU including all the games in 1984. Believe it or not some of us Cougar fans feel the utes got hosed.

Utah | 6:08 p.m. July 2, 2009

Ended up exactly where they should have, they would have never gone undefeated in a BCS conference and everybody in the country knows it. NO more than Boise State should have been national champs the year they beat Oklahoma, they had a nice game leave it at that.

Eugene | 6:34 p.m. July 2, 2009

Go Dr. LJA, you tell'em. I'm another diehard Cougar fan that also feels that Utah got hosed. If the Uters are not playing my beloved Cougers, then I cheer for Utah just like I cheer on Utah State to win when not playing the Y.

For a Cougar Nation supporter, the question really comes down to who I and other Y folks would cheer for when Utah and Utah State are playing against each other! Hmmmmmm!

The other question is will something come out of this hearing that did not happen after the House hearing earlier this year?

Come on Congress, take a stand for the less fortunate collegiate conferences and "spread the wealth". President Obama already has in advocating a playoff!

Save us, Obama, and issue an Executive Order for a playoff in order to ensure national security!

urban dropped Texas | 7:14 p.m. July 2, 2009

Urban Meyer dropped Texas from the schedule...the excuse was beacause TCU was now in the conference. But then they added Weber State to the schedule when the NCAA allowed the 12th game again. Well at least Wyoming will play Texas. They get them at home too. How did they ever score that?

Believe it or not, I think the Utes have more talent this year than last. I think Louks/Cain will surprise a lot of people.

Ben | 7:22 p.m. July 2, 2009

Who really cares? I love sports more than most people, but in a socialist country won't all schools need to share in the National title? At least we need to share the proceeds from the Bowl games with schools that can't win a game.

Anonymous | 7:55 p.m. July 2, 2009

Oh, Ben, I do love your comment. It was said tongue in cheek with an overtone of truth.

BCS is anti-Utah Utes. | 9:09 p.m. July 2, 2009

I don't think the BCS is as anti-Mountain West as it is anti-Ute. Why, you ask? Utah went undefeated - period. They were undefeated in the regular season and undefeated in the bowl/post season. Had Utah lost one regular season game, they would have dropped out of the top 25. TCU lost two games and was ranked 7 (a miracle unheard ranking for a two loss mid-majors program). BYU lost three games and finished in the top 25. Had TCU lost only one game going into the bowl games, they would have been in a BCS bowl. Had BYU lost only one game, they would have probably played for the national championship. But they didn't. TCU lost twice in the regular season, and BYU lost twice in the regulat season. Both lost to Utah. Yet Utah was forced to settle with a lackluster Alabama who they beat like a goverment mule.

Continued disrespect towards a great Utah Football program is not simply a Provo tradition. It is something that the BCS has now engaged in and it is dishonest and unprofessional.

Cats | 9:23 a.m. July 3, 2009

I am a dyed-in-the-wool Cougar. I also, think the Utes got robbed. I have season tickets to all BYU games and was in attendance at the Las Vegas Bowl. I was also in attendance at the Sugar Bowl. We screamed like mad for the Utes. The Bama fans all looked like they have been hit in the face with a shovel. I also met another Cougar who wore a Cougar sweatshirt to the Sugar Bowl and cheered for the Utes.

We are Cougars but we aren't small people. We wanted the Utes to win. Fair is fair. They should have had their shot and they should have been named #1 by the powers that be.

The BCS needs to fall and there need to be playoffs. We want ALL schools to have a shot and that means our beloved COUGARS might have their chance for ANOTHER National Championship.

Just two cents from a true blue COUGAR.

diehardYfan | 9:23 a.m. July 3, 2009

All you diehard Y fans like myself are showing yourself to be some kinda classy with regards to this subject. And although the sight of Rice Eccles Stadium makes me want to blow chunks, I have to agree that these boys were robbed. They are the best team to ever come out of the state of Utah (yes, even better than the Alex Smith led Pitt busters) because they beat a terrific team in a great bowl game and they laid the wood to them. At least diehard Y fans can admit that the U had a great year, which is more than I can say about many Ute fans failure to recognize our national championship. True, it wasn't against a great team and we didn't have a tough schedule that season, but if we give you credit, fairs fair, right?

Boycott BCS | 9:40 a.m. July 3, 2009

We don't need government officials to stop the BCS. Everyone stop going to or watching any BCS game. Imagine the Rose Bowl empty for a national championship game. The very next year there would be a playoff system. No one should go to or watch any BCS game this year and it will be over. If you watch a BCS game you are casting your vote for that system.

Slag0500 | 9:42 a.m. July 3, 2009

It is unconscionable for taxpayer money to be spent sending public university officials to testify about something as trivial as sports. The vast majority of the public cares nothing for this issue, and their tax money should not be spent to debate it.

Coogar | 9:45 a.m. July 3, 2009

Conspiracies abound.

RE: Utah (6:08) | 10:08 a.m. July 3, 2009

"Ended up exactly where they should have, they would have never gone undefeated in a BC$ conference..."

BALDERDASH!

This just makes me laugh. Here is one example of a BC$ Conference schedule:
Youngstown State (4-8 CDiv), @ Buffalo (8-6),Navy (7-6), @ North Carolina State (6-7), @ Louisville (5-7), Connecticut(8-5), @ Rutgers (8-5), South Florida (8-5), Syracuse (3-9), Notre Dame (8-5), @ West Virginia (9-4), Cincinnati (11-3).

A real killer schedule there. All you have to do is go 12-0 and you are a shoo-in for the Title game, since this is a bonafide "BC$ schedule". In case you didn't figure it out its Pittsburgh 2008.

Yeah, I do think that UT does this one 12-0. Last year. TCU and possibly BYU probably do this 12-0, too.

BC$ is all about the money and only about the money. The old schools want to keep it because they have always gotten it. They are not categorically better teams, plyers, or coaches. They don't have tougher opponents (see above). They are just more entrenched in the political establishment and they control the money.

Blue Son of a Ute

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