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Go figure — ESPN suddenly loves MWC

Suspend her?... I'm sure they are planning the ticker-tape parade already... Lambert has done what 1,000's of bitter Lobos have only drempt of inacting for decades

Can the writers not think of anything else to write about. You want to make a living by just continuing to pile up on this young person? More serious than the punch - are you kidding? Is it more serious than the flagrant face mask which can cause serious injury (the penalty for that one is 15 yards and a first down)? More serious than coming into a base with the spikes high? She crossed the line and was punished, rightfully so, and is serving her punishment. Many of us have crossed a line, but it's too easy, and for some, too much fun, to continue to pile up on someone else. Find a new story, this one's getting old. To me, too many in the media are having too much fun and getting a column, report or whatever completed which has no real value or news while hurting another? Many in the media use the excuse that it's their job to report the news and give a perspective. This isn't news anymore; and the perspectives have been exhausted. It's simply, to me, sensationalism and abuse.

LAMBERT should have TOTALLY have thought through it before she did what she did.

For me it would be idiotic for espn gameday to miss the tcu,utah game cause it is gonna be a good game even for a BYU fan.

How you could even begin to argue that Lamberts actions were more serious than Blounts is beyond me. She did some hair pulling and scuffling--aided and abetted by coaxing from some pretty streetwise cougarettes. He went after fans in the stands and almost needed a net thrown over him to get him out of the stadium. Don't get caught up in the media frenzy Scotty.

Lambert apologized and was suspended.

What more does the DN want?

Let it go.

I think the Lambert deal was more serious than the OU Player's actions. Her actions were continuous for a long period of time. She demonstrated that she had some sort of personal issue with the other players on the field. To her it seemed to be a lot more than soccor. I can understand "loosing it" for a moment in the high intensity moments of sports but, to "loose it" for an entire game and get away with it is completely unacceptible.

I'm with you, Scott, on this ESPN thing. For the longest time, ESPN ignored the MWC as much as it could. It was rare when a clip or score was shown on SportsCenter. Now, in less than a full season, they will be doing GameDay from a MWC school. It is more than obvious that they are kissing up for something. Probably so they can interfere with the conference to marginalize the conference or bring the conference back into the fold. I, personally, thought that arranging the BYU-Oklahoma game was an attempt to shut the conference up by having Oklahoma blow the doors off BYU, but the plan backfired. I guess that the MWC is the "elephant in the room" of college football. The MWC is getting pretty hard to ignore, anymore.

It will only be 1 game at New Mexico ... isn't that all the football coach got for punching an assistant.

Also you have to love the publicity for the mountain west.

BYU, Utah, TCU, UNLV, and San Diego State should move to the WAC where they kick out San Jose State, New Mexico State, Utah State, Louisiana Tech and Hawaii.

That give your conference BYU, Utah, TCU and Boise State as the powerhouses. And NO you do not want 9 even schools - look at the ACC they have multiple of even schools and they never have an undefeated school.

Utah and BYU in state rivals
Idaho and Boise State are both in on state.
Nevada and UNLV (Basketball School) are both in-state rivals,
San Diego State and Fresno State are in state rivals
You have TCU (Texas) and San Diego State and Fresno State (CA) for Recruiting

Hawaii and Louisiana State are too far to travel

Air Force is sad to loose and is a better school than Nevada, Fresno State, San Diego but Like I said you really only need 4 top teams.

Finally, Your Conference is ON ESPN. KJZZ will once again be picking up all the local games.

Would that the BYU fans comment on this trivial piece of wrongdoing than to rag on every Ute article that appears in the DMN. . .

She is a good example of a bad example. If Sundance is right, there are a lot of bad examples walking around and it's appropriate to expose them.

It's cute that the TV reporter wants to write about sports. He needs to stop the BCS whine though. When he makes the comment that nobody outside of Idaho thought that GameDay would come to the Boise-Idaho game he is showing the double standard. How he feels about Idaho is how the nation feels about the MWC. Is there a difference I'm missing?

I have a better idea: MWC should add Boise State. That would make 10 schools. Split the conference into 2 divisions, have a tournament championship, and allow 1 more non-conf game (provided that it is a D1 FBS whatever school). Divisions could be divided into the west and east. East division would have Wyoming, CSU, Air Force, TCU, New Mexico. West division would have BYU, Utah, Boise State, UNLV, and San Diego St. TCU would probably dominate the east and BYU, Utah, and Boise would slug out the west. BYU or Utah could switch with New Mexico to even out the divisions but they would still play each other in the rivalry. The conference would get stronger, have another game, and maybe they could marginalize the .mtn and get a contract with ESPN or Fox Sports for the bigger games.

You can't be serious. BYU, Utah, TCU, UNLV and SDSU would never join the WAC. Why quit on somehting as special and big as the Mountain West is getting? If anything BSU and Nevada should just join the Mountain West. So we can all stop hearing BSU fans crying about how they don't get enough respect because their conferance is garbage.

I love how the mwc like to feel like they're so picked on, get over yourselves, ESPN can report how they want to, even when you think they give you no airtime.

Her actions were not continuous and not for a long time. If you add up all the footage, I don't think you'd have one half of a minute. If there were more, the way ESPN was trying to focus on her "wrongdoings" instead of following the play, you better be sure you would have seen more - if there were more. Also, if you watch, though her actions were wrong, she remained focused on the game and the ball, not on individuals she had these infractions with. Way to paint a one-sided story ESPN. What was your intention? Wanted more than the sport, itself?

It was a sad day when KSL lost the rights to televise games. Did their homework on both teams. Focused on the game from start to finish. We were spoiled...

Let the mountain do their own content on the weekdays and let the locals(KSL) broadcast the games not picked up by the networks.

Why would 5 teams that left the WAC want to move back. The MWC is way superior than the WAC in all sports and academics.

Maybe Boise St. should learn to be more than just a one trick pony and they would be able to move out of the WAC.

I'd rather add Utah State than Nevada. A better natural rivalry for Utah and BYU and an excellent basketball tradition. Utah State and Boise State to the MWC would be great.

I don't think this GameDay stuff has anything to do with the MWC. This is about TCU, who is ranked #4 and on the verge of busting the BCS. The same could be said for the BYU/TCU GameDay broadcast. As for the AFA/ARMY game broadcast, that is a big deal because it is an armed forces game. That had nothing to do with the fact that AFA is in the MWC. As for the MWC, ESPN and the Nation, still looks down on the MWC, which is basically a 3 team conference.