Comments about ‘Utah Utes football notebook: MUSS a key factor in U. home success’

6,000 screaming students? Wow, that's 1/2 the stadium!

Edgrady,

I attend several games at the Big House every year. Do you not realize just how trivial and small market your LES gloating sounds in comparison? Let me know when the tds DOUBLES the size of LES and maybe it’ll mean something.

EdGrady,

You don't get out much do you. It must be difficult living in your mother's basement.

Did you finally wake up from the 80's, EdGrady? UTES sell out home games, that's 45,000. Greatest party in all the state of Utah takes place at UTES home football games.

In case you still haven't caught up with the news of the 21st Century, the UTES are going to the PAC12 (PAC10 now) next year. Good luck in finding a UTES ticket for those games. I hear plenty of tickets are still available for BYUs home games with Wyoming and New Mexico.

@Edgrady, better than 6,000 screaming babies and small children.

I'll take "half our fans" screaming for joy over half our fans moaning because their so old their bones are half dust.

yeah right, when did last attend a game? 1946? and at least they're not 6000 old ladies sitting there knitting.

@Thlete - That's actually pretty funny.

@ EdGrady

I would take 45,000 screaming, passionate fans over 65,000 listening to Greg Wrubell on the radio since they have no idea what they are watching. The times I have been to LES for games, I could have studied for finals, it was much quieter than the local library.

Thlete - I'm a BYU fan, and that's funny! Yes, I'll admit, that's one thing that I'm jealous of about the Utes - the Ute student section rocks. The Muss actually comes to watch the football game and cheer for their team. BYU students come to be social, wear bright orange, pink, and red shirts to the games (blue BYU shirts cost 10 bucks at walmart) and talk about who is dating who. If BYU gets up by 10, they start talking to each other and don't pay attention to the game. It seems too difficult to get students and old peeps to wear the same color clothing, or at the very least clothing that is BYU colors. It's embarrasing. We may get 65k to each game, but only 40k are there to watch the game.

I would rather have 45,000 dollar bills over 65,000 pennies......

Y is the LES like a morgue?

I would guess 40% are under 12 years old and 30% are over 65 — not the best demographics for a football fan.

How to increase enthusiasm at the LES? Have bronco dress up like sponge bob square pants (shouldn’t be a stretch) AND show Gold Girls outtakes on the scoreboard during timeouts.

EdGrady | 7:21 a.m. Aug. 31, 2010
6,000 screaming students? Wow, that's 1/2 the stadium!

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Come on mid-major, beats playing in 1/2 the confernce.

DC I found your comment comical. I'm a college student who is a Utah fan living in Provo, and I have attended my fair amount of BYU football games to confirm what you say is true. For most BYU students going to football games is all about culture, and tradition. Most of them go because all their friends go to the games. A lot of them don't pay attention to game, or really know a lot about football. It's all about finding the next date for the weekend. However, Utahs student section is almost completely opposite. The muss section is pretty crazy, but I think a lot of it might be do to alcohol consumption in the pre game parties. It just interesting to see the difference in cultures between Utah and Byu fans.

The MUSS could very well help determine the outcome of this game.

GO UTES...GO MUSS!!!!!!!

EdGrady | 7:21 a.m. Aug. 31, 2010
6,000 screaming students? Wow, that's 1/2 the stadium!

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Come on mid-major, beats playing in 1/2 the confernce.

The MUSS has been a great boost to Utah football and they should feel proud that they're helping to generate crowds at RES that are almost as large as the crowds LES was drawing 35 years ago.

Utah fans like to spins excuses but the truth is Utah doesn't have enough fans or money to support building a larger stadium. If the 2002 Olympic Games hadn't paid for major upgrades to RES, it would still be a "cozy" little 35,000 seat stadium with an outdated pressbox.

How does everyone know that EdGrady is a BYU fan? Whenever a team has as much success as Utah, there are always detractors and not just from the rival school. He could be a USU, Weber State, or BSU fan. Or like me, he could be a ute fan who wishes that we had a stadium large enough to fit all the fans that want to watch the game. Add another 10,000 seats and then we can get into a game without having to buy season tickets.

Come on big BCS conference money!


Go Utes!

Hedgehog,

I have been crying reading your post... Spongebob clothing was great but the Golden Girls re runs set it over the top.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I joined the Muss in 2004 when I got back from a mission. There were a couple thousand of us, and we were completely nuts. We definitely made a name for ourselves. I stayed in the Muss four more years. We were just as nuts and committed in 2005 despite a hard year, but it's gone down ever since.

I was very disappointed in many of the students that sat around us last year. None of them knew the songs. Many of them didn't seem to understand the game or even want to. Most of them would only get up for important defensive plays if they were really pushed and cajoled.

I wend to the game at Oregon last year. The old guys in the lower bowl put the Muss to shame. The whole place was nuts.

The bigger the Muss gets, the more watered down it is. It too is becoming about tradition and seeing your friends. They still deserve credit, but they're going to have to earn respect by living up to the standard that was set in 2004.