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Doug Robinson: Can BYU football fans root for (ick) Utah Utes?
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want a Froggie win:
1) BYU fans can't handle Utah success. A Utah Wynn proves that Utah football team has become superior to BYU. This can't happen!!!
2) Utah may just make it to another BCS game --if things fall right. That will be 3-0 BCS advantage over BYU. This can't happen!!!
3) A Utah Wynn tomorrow would provide Utah fans opportunity to brag about their team, especially after the blown-out BYU loss to TCU. This can't happen!!!
SoCalUtahFan
A TCU win is the best for the MWC.
A BCS bid by an MWC team is what we need.
Go Frogs!!!
BYU kind of has a rivalry now with TCU, but its a rival team I can respect. Unlike Utah... I couldn't honestly root for them last year, eventhough they were in the same position that TCU is in now.
Go Frogs.
PS they need a new mascot costume -- worst ever.
TCU!
Even though a Utah win would give BYU a chance at another MWC championship, a TCU win is more important because it will get the MWC that much closer to becoming an AQ BCS conference.
I usually cheer for Utah, except, of course, when they're playing my Cougs or when a Utah win is not in BYU's best interests.
TCU 38
Utah 3
Utah Alum
BYU Fan!
Go BYU
Utah loss = who cares.
Cougar fans want Utah to lose more than they want a shot at a conference championship?
There are no Cougar fans, only Utah haters.
If the Utes win, the MWC gets no BCS buster, no long-term respect, and very little cash (Fiesta Bowl vs. Las Vegas Bowl, you do the math).
I'm true-blue BYU, with some good friends at the U as well. I don't normally wish to spit on the Crimson Club. But TCU needs to win this one for the conference. Period.
The article mentioned at first about U of U BB. I believe the U now has lost to both Idaho teams, Idaho State last year, and now Idaho this year. I guess we'll have to use BB this year for our bragging rights, so hopefully BYU outplays the U of U, and goes past the first round in the big dance. We'll see what happens. No matter what, I am still a BYU fan and will be till I die.
In FB, I am hoping for a Frog win tomorrow and also a BYU win, the final game of the year in the regular season. Then we'll see who goes to Vegas, the Cougs or the Utes, and who goes elsewhere, both having achieved a great season w/only two losses.
I am also a Ute alumnus and a Cougar fan (have taken several classes on a post-graduate level and some classes just for interest at the Y, and I loved the atmosphere - no comparison between the U and the Y).
Not right. BYU fans, but NOT Utah fans. There is NO way we want the Cougars to lose to Utah. We hope to trash them similar to what we did to Wyoming. I believe the comment was, "I would rather see TCU beat Utah than BYU win a conference championship, which is really no big deal".
From what I have seen on these DN boards, if the tables were turned and BYU was playing TCU, there would not be a single UTE fan that would be cheering for BYU. So, dear Helen, EAT YOUR WORDS!
p.s. Nice try on another basketball opener...
Go frogs.
Three facts:
1) The BCS is only obligated to take one mid-major team if it qualifies. It isn't obligated to take anyone else. If it were, Boise State would have busted last year, too. No 1-loss mid-major will ever bust the BCS. Count on it. It's money.
2) The Utes play in a small media market, and its fans don't travel well enough to make the Utes a BCS Bowl money-maker. That's why Notre Dame is always in the mix every year--its fan base is huge.
3) The Utes haven't been playing well enough this year that they'll even have to worry about it much longer. The Ute offense couldn't blow away San Jose, AFA, or Wyoming.
But why worry? Tomorrow, all Utah-BCS talk stops cold.
Don't look now my friend, but Utah is the 14th ranked team in the nation.
Hardly a mediocre team as recognized by the nation's college football coaches.
A Utah win over TCU would likely result in two top 10 ranked MWC teams, followed distantly by another MWC team in the high teens.
Wouldn't be a bad showing for the MWC.
Facts are:
TCU is light years ahead of BYU and there is no way BYU beats TCU the next couple of years, barring their coach leaving or probation.
Utah might not beat BYU this year but has a much brighter future than BYU the next couple of years.
BYU has yet to beat a quality team this century, I'm serious!!!! please someone correct me!!!!!!!! Oklahoma this year is not that quality, what is their record right now?
UNLV has more victories against non conferece top 25 teams this century than BYU does.
There is no way BYU wins a MWC title in the next five years!!!!
BYU as a consistently nationally ranked team is hardly on any "welfare train." Your comment might be understandable and remotely reasonable if it were directed to, say, San Diego State in 2008 or the Lobos in 2009. BYU has been the most successful team year in and year out in both the WAC and MWC since the 1970s. And speaking of riding welfare trains, just where were the Utes until, say, 1994?
Let's check recent history, too. This "welfare train" nonsense is pretty big talk from a fan of a team that finished 4-7 as recently as 2000 and 5-6 in 2002. And dear me, your Utes followed up their 2004 BCS campaign by losing FIVE GAMES the next TWO SEASONS, and FOUR the season after that!
Looks to me like 2004 and 2008 were actually the surprises in an otherwise good-to-mediocre series of performances! And "Contribute," please remember this little chat while the Utes are scraping themselves off the turf in Fort Worth and Provo. Thanks!
When BYU ruled the WAC, it didn't mean much on a national scale. Cougar fans thought it did, and were angry when they didn't get appropriate love from the rest of the country. Now Utah and TCU carry the MWC banner, and BYU can't accept that their bitter rival has a more impressive resume in the last decade than BYU does.
Many Cougar fans listed above are more concerned with learning that Utah is just as mediocre as they are than possibly winning a share of the conference crown. Since conference championships don't mean that much to you, then shut your traps about how many BYU has!
Please put these in order of importance: I am a BYU fan. I am a Utah hater.
Oh, how the "mighty" have fallen...
"No matter what, I am still a BYU fan and will be till I die."
What are you a girl? Nobody uses that expression. You must have fulfilled 1 & 2 of the questionaire. I thought that was awesome of Doug Robinson to include that. hahaha
hahaha, remember when you guys did that? That was the funnies thing ever. BYU gone wild. Tortiallas. Yes I get the reference to it, but still it's hilarious. If you guys were going to the Rose Bowl, would you guys throw roses too? heheheh. oh well, it will be a COLD FUN RIVALARY.
TCU is a great team - Go TCU!!!!!!!!
Go Frogs.
As a lifelong Cougar fan I'll admit that every now and then I have cheered for Utah. But not this game. With a couple of twists of luck TCU could end up I'm the national championship game which could propel the MWC to get an automatic BCS bid in the future.
And besides, it's fun to watch Utah lose.
Did Utah turn up its nose at the money BYU brought in during the 70's and 80's when, with rare exception, Utah football was, shall we say, not formidable? Last year Utah was good. This year, Utah is lucky. Get a life.
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