Comments about ‘Utah Utes football: Fan club a MUSS-do for U. students’

Love that MUSS! Wish it was around in the 80's and 90's. It would be great if they could get at least 2000 of them to show up for basketball games. While the MUSS sits right near the band and can hear the fight song.........the rest of the stadium can barely hear the band. Most schools have figured out to put microphones around the band to make it possible, happens in Provo and could hear the UNLV band this past weekend loud and clar. Maybe the MUSS leaders could influence the University to get microphones put around the band so we could hear the fight song. Is that too much to ask?

I started sitting with the students in 2002(heck, you could sit anywhere you wanted in the whole stadium at that time)and was a MUSS member in '03 and '04. I've sat in a couple of other school's student section, but no place is more rocking than the MUSS.

And I can say that the MUSS experience was part of what has made me a Ute fan and season ticket holder for life. Even in its infancy the MUSS was an amazing organization, I can't even imagine how great it is now, but I'm happy to live somewhat vicariously through the current members each 3rd Down Jump.

While there is something to be said of the advantages of keeping demand high, I would also like to see the cap eventually moved from 5,000 to 7 or 8k (south endzone expansion anybody?). A crazy student section improves the experience for the whole stadium, creating emotion and excitement.

And with Mal(Ute)lory and Coach Boylen leading the way hopefully some of the passion can be moved over to the hard court this season. Go Utes!

When I went to the U 1998 to 2002, you could sit anywhere in the stadium. I than moved out of state, this year I am back and I cant get good tickets. I love it. To see all of the fans and the student support is awesome. It is great to see the stands full of loud enthused fans.

Great article, DN! My family doesn't live in Utah but every time we see a U of U game on TV my 16 year old talks about how fun he would have as a member of the MUSS. I would like to see another 15,000 seats added to the stadium to enable the MUSS to accommodate half of the Utah student body!

I'm a cougar fan and I admit I am jealous of the U's student section.

This is my second year in the Muss and it is awesome! I even went on the bus to Oregon and we did the third down jump in Autzen. We actually broke one of the benches and it was carried out to all the disapproval of the Duck fans! We may have lost but Oregon will remember when the Muss visited! Go Utes!

good job utes and ute fans. lets keep it growing, and continue to show up the team down south year after year. just remember the 70's and 80's were theirs to cherish forever. the 90's were even, and 2000 and beyond are ours for the taking. congrats on taking over as the best football program and fan base in the state.

I live down here in st.george, and the utes are by far the favorites down here.

go utes

I have had season football tickets for thiry-six years and I LOVE THE MUSS!!!! The Muss, the stadium, the athletes make each home game sheer joy to attend!!!!!!! Go UTES!!!!!!

Are they going to expand Rice-Eccles Stadium yet? If they did, they could bump the MUSS cap up a bit.

My parents had season tickets as I was growing up and I went to almost all of the home games always thinking how much fun it would be to sit in the MUSS section. Now that I am in it is even more fun than I thought it would be. It is a good social environment but all the students in the MUSS take football seriously and I love how involved everyone gets. Its a great atmosphere and maybe someday we can get the whole stadium to do the third down jump? Get the alumni and everyone else to do that, that would be classic! go utes

watched the coaches show on channel 4 and Hill said that a possible double decker expansion on the east side of the stadium, along with filling in the South side of the stadium is a possibility in the near future. Could you imagine a double decker RICE-ECCLES! that many more fans and MUSS members making Rice-Eccles that much louder!

This is my 5th season in the MUSS (don't bother me with cracks about graduation). One of the things I considered when I decided to stay at the U for my Master's degree was the MUSS. There is no place I would rather be on a Saturday afternoon in the fall than in Rice-Eccles in the MUSS with 5000 of my best friends. Go Utes!

I sure wish we had the MUSS while I was a student during the late '90s. Now, as a resident on the East coast, I can't even experience the new gameday environment.

Perhaps I should make a trip out there some year. I'll DEFINITELY be at the Pitt game in '11.

GO UTES!!!

I love both the Muss at the U, and the Popcorn Popping song at BYU.

Both are classic examples of the way Utahns have fun!!!

Great Comments. Go Utes!

If Utah ever expects to be a big time program, Utah needs to expand it's stadium.

Developing the MUSS is a start, but having a stadium that says major college football is a must.

It's embarrassing having a stadium that seats 20,000 less than LES, and it certainly doesn't look good to recruits when they visit Utah and see a stadium that screams small conference when compared almost every BCS conference team stadium.

Many BCS stadiums seat 90,000 or more; that's TWICE the size of RES at 45,000.

Best fan base in the state? Since when have we ever cared what St. George had to say? At BYU the student section has way more than 5000 seats and they sold out this year in four hours. If the Utes aren't undefeated or in the top 25 they can't even sell out the stadium (which is 3/4 the size of BYUs).
To Mr. Anonymous @11:42, I won't tell anyone that the real reason you decided to stay at the U was so you could continue to live at your parents house and pretend you are still in high school like everyone else at the University.

Wow... 5000, all get in FREE... wow. Awesome. BYU's 18000 students that show up every single game have to pay.

Sorry... what's this story about again?

Since we get so many comments from the uties on COUGARS articiles, I just wanted to make a comment. We all know the best program in the State is in HAPPY VALLEY. You little brothers only wish you could have a program as good as BYU. GO COUGARS>

I have always wondered if the MUSS feels guilty about ripping off Miami's "U" hand sign? People use it all the time at the game but I wonder how many know that it actually started at the real "U".