Rick Reilly a hypocrite?

[cougjunkie]

In 2001 when BYU was 12-0 he wrote this article:http://quicktime.cnnsi.com/inside_ga...ife_of_reilly/

Here are a few excerpts:

"Would you send your junior high football team to play a high school squad? Of course not! They'd get whacked. Did you think it was fair that busloads of 12-year-olds got whiffed by 14-year-old pitcher Danny Almonte in the Little League World Series? Hell, no!"

'Fifty-two players on the Cougars' 106-man roster -- 11 of 22 starters -- have spent two years on a Mormon mission. That means Brigham Young is starting guys who look like the Skipper compared with everybody else's Gilligan. Hell, 30 guys on the team are married! One tight end who was on last year's team had five kids! "

"Who's going to make a better player: a 22-year-old married sophomore with twins or a 20-year-old single sophomore trying to make it with twins?"

"Nobody is limiting anybody's religious freedom here, but it's not fair that these BYU players get to go back, suit up and kick the bejesus out of kids fresh out of high school.

That stuff just isn't Christian. "

But yet now he says Utah should be national champions,eventhough they have the same "advantage" as BYU.

"Fifty-five players and half the coaching staff are members of the LDS. Forty-seven players are returned missionaries, a two-year service to the church that takes them out of college that Whittingham encourages."

[RockyBalboa]

Does Utah REALLY have 47 RM's on their team? That number surprises me. Higher than I thought.

[SeattleUte]

Cougjunkie, since reading your recruiting trolls on CB I don't take anything you say seriously anymore.

[cougjunkie]

Cougjunkie, since reading your recruiting trolls on CB I don't take anything you say seriously anymore.

Well SU you tell me, does Reilly have any credibility anymore? Looks like he clearly contradicts himself.

[SeattleUte]

Well SU you tell me, does Reilly have any credibility anymore? Looks like he clearly contradicts himself.

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

Regardless of how many RM's Utah has, the nation has seen that Utah has an AA quarterback, and its stars are mostly minorities, the skill players mostly AA. That Utah has come across as a team loaded with athletic players--athletic, more than smart or mature or clean cut, is the adjective most often applied to this team--who are mostly minorities has done a lot of good for the state of Utah's image, in my opinion.

[cougjunkie]

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

Regardless of how many RM's Utah has, the nation has seen that Utah has an AA quarterback, and its stars are mostly minorities, the skill players mostly AA. That Utah has come across as a team loaded with athletic players--athletic, more than smart or mature or clean cut, is the adjective most often applied to this team--who are mostly minorities has done a lot of good for the state of Utah's image, in my opinion.

In your eyes what this Utah team has done is bigger than anything MLK jr did, Bigger than Rosa Parks, bigger than the Declaration of Independence.

So until you come back to reality I cant take serious anything you say.

[creekster]

Does Utah REALLY have 47 RM's on their team? That number surprises me. Higher than I thought.

That includes the sports medicine student interns on the training staff.

[CardiacCoug]

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

Regardless of how many RM's Utah has, the nation has seen that Utah has an AA quarterback, and its stars are mostly minorities, the skill players mostly AA. That Utah has come across as a team loaded with athletic players--athletic, more than smart or mature or clean cut, is the adjective most often applied to this team--who are mostly minorities has done a lot of good for the state of Utah's image, in my opinion.

I would unfortunately have to agree with that.

[myboynoah]

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

Regardless of how many RM's Utah has, the nation has seen that Utah has an AA quarterback, and its stars are mostly minorities, the skill players mostly AA. That Utah has come across as a team loaded with athletic players--athletic, more than smart or mature or clean cut, is the adjective most often applied to this team--who are mostly minorities has done a lot of good for the state of Utah's image, in my opinion.

Yeah, the same effect the Utah Jazz has had on the image of Utah. Minimal.

[TripletDaddy]

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

Regardless of how many RM's Utah has, the nation has seen that Utah has an AA quarterback, and its stars are mostly minorities, the skill players mostly AA. That Utah has come across as a team loaded with athletic players--athletic, more than smart or mature or clean cut, is the adjective most often applied to this team--who are mostly minorities has done a lot of good for the state of Utah's image, in my opinion.

This is an interesting conundrum.

You are either BYU....racist for excluding blacks.

Or your most other schools (including Utah now).....racist for exploiting blacks.

Do the players wear those ironic "Property of Utah Athletics" t shirts when they work out?

[SeattleUte]

This is an interesting conundrum.

You are either BYU....racist for excluding blacks.

Or your most other schools (including Utah now).....racist for exploiting blacks.

Do the players wear those ironic "Property of Utah Athletics" t shirts when they work out?

Robin, how are they being exploited?

[SeattleUte]

Yeah, the same effect the Utah Jazz has had on the image of Utah. Minimal.

Pro players are mercenaries. A college team is more seen a reflection of the community.

[myboynoah]

Pro players are mercenaries. A college team is more seen a reflection of the community.

Now I know you're just trolling.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Clearly he doesn't like BYU.

I can explain. One's strongest feelings about one's favorite team or that team's rivals and opponents are developed early, typically during one's college experience. The way BYU bitchslapped Utah during your formative years explains, at least in part, your ongoing antipathy. Reilly was either a senior or recent grad of Colorado when Jim McMahon et al. crushed the Buffs in '80 or '81, I'm not sure exactly which.

Reilly is a very good writer, though. It's a shame his view of BYU is colored in part by the beating he witnessed. Given his kind thoughts toward the Utes, I can only assume the Buffs played Utah sometime in the 70s or 80s.

[SeattleUte]

To clarify, football is a sport. So it's nice to hear a team from a Utah college praised for its athleticism primarily though as well as intelligene, maturity, skill, etc., rather than seeing maturity or smarts used as a euphamism.