BYU and Utah have always been in the same trench together. We shoot bullets at each other, but when we realize there is a foe in a bunker farther away we take pause and fight the good fight together.
Now here is what I see...
Utah all of the sudden is going to find themselves with an invite into the PAC ?, and they look at us in the bunker and say "Ha...we are better than you." So they run to the other bunker and start lobbing bullets our way.
This is how it is for me.
Utah was run of the mill until the late 90's/early 2000. Since then they have played out of their minds and had a phenominal run. Good for them and what they have been able to accomplish.
BYU has been good for 25 years, with a few great years and a few not so great years. (Which is why I used the descriptor "good".)
Utah has been able to motivate their players to the "killer instinct" when they had to to win big games. BYU just can't do that. Religion makes us soft.
I firmly believe that the reason Utah is going to PAC and BYU isn't or wasn't considered is because of the LDS Church. To me, Utah is BYU sans the Honor Code.
Am I jealous? Probably. But I would feel exactly the same way if we were going somewhere and Utah was staying. I wouldn't like it.
Now...I don't expect Utah to turn it down because of what it will do to BYU. That would be stupid. But I am like a lover scorned...as an insititution I am not going to go out of my way to help Utah. But...religion makes us soft and we will fold.
I will tell you this...if BYU were to drop athletics altogether...I would quit going to church. Dead serious. It would shake my faith greater than if I found out a member of the Q12 was having an affair.
I just want folks to be level headed. No one is better than someone else because of the conference that they are in. If you tell me Wazzu is better than BYU or Utah because they are in the PAC? you are crazy.
Now here is what I see...
Utah all of the sudden is going to find themselves with an invite into the PAC ?, and they look at us in the bunker and say "Ha...we are better than you." So they run to the other bunker and start lobbing bullets our way.
This is how it is for me.
Utah was run of the mill until the late 90's/early 2000. Since then they have played out of their minds and had a phenominal run. Good for them and what they have been able to accomplish.
BYU has been good for 25 years, with a few great years and a few not so great years. (Which is why I used the descriptor "good".)
Utah has been able to motivate their players to the "killer instinct" when they had to to win big games. BYU just can't do that. Religion makes us soft.
I firmly believe that the reason Utah is going to PAC and BYU isn't or wasn't considered is because of the LDS Church. To me, Utah is BYU sans the Honor Code.
Am I jealous? Probably. But I would feel exactly the same way if we were going somewhere and Utah was staying. I wouldn't like it.
Now...I don't expect Utah to turn it down because of what it will do to BYU. That would be stupid. But I am like a lover scorned...as an insititution I am not going to go out of my way to help Utah. But...religion makes us soft and we will fold.
I will tell you this...if BYU were to drop athletics altogether...I would quit going to church. Dead serious. It would shake my faith greater than if I found out a member of the Q12 was having an affair.
I just want folks to be level headed. No one is better than someone else because of the conference that they are in. If you tell me Wazzu is better than BYU or Utah because they are in the PAC? you are crazy.
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