"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - The Rivalry Thread

[Moliere]

Cheap shot inferring it’s just religious affiliation?

He’s clearly never been to ward temple night or Saturday chapel cleaning…if he thinks Mormons show up to everything.

[MartyFunkhouser]

And from the great Chris Hill! The grown up who is supposedly the architect of all Utah's success over the past 25 years.

Look the Pig Bus is who he is. Whether he is an internet troll or acts that way in real life it doesn't really matter to me. He thrives on tired stereotypes and riling up strangers including the worst elements of his own fan base. In short an idiot who I don't care about.

But the fact that THE CURRENT UTAH ATHLETIC DIRECTOR apparently follows and reposts this guy (at a minimum) is just wild. Add that to his unhinged behavior during the rivalry game last year and it is just crazy for a school that is supposedly above the Big 12 and has Big Ten aspirations. The reason why the entire conference hates Utah is mainly because of their attitude towards the big 12 when the Pac 12 was imploding, but their behavior at the highest levels of the AD since they arrived has solidified how people see Utah. Go look up what Big 12 insiders/media were saying about Utah after the rivalry game last year. These are people with no stake either way in the rivalry. They were dumbfounded that an Athletic Director could be so childish. This from the supposed truck stop conference who should be ok with such boorish behavior right?

It is dark times being a Ute fan, and I'm worried it isn't going to get better anytime soon.

[Omaha 680]

It is one thing for dumb fans to repeat stuff like this, but quite another for an administrator.

And from the great Chris Hill! The grown up who is supposedly the architect of all Utah's success over the past 25 years.

Look the Pig Bus is who he is. Whether he is an internet troll or acts that way in real life it doesn't really matter to me. He thrives on tired stereotypes and riling up strangers including the worst elements of his own fan base. In short an idiot who I don't care about.

But the fact that THE CURRENT UTAH ATHLETIC DIRECTOR apparently follows and reposts this guy (at a minimum) is just wild. Add that to his unhinged behavior during the rivalry game last year and it is just crazy for a school that is supposedly above the Big 12 and has Big Ten aspirations. The reason why the entire conference hates Utah is mainly because of their attitude towards the big 12 when the Pac 12 was imploding, but their behavior at the highest levels of the AD since they arrived has solidified how people see Utah. Go look up what Big 12 insiders/media were saying about Utah after the rivalry game last year. These are people with no stake either way in the rivalry. They were dumbfounded that an Athletic Director could be so childish. This from the supposed truck stop conference who should be ok with such boorish behavior right?

[MartyFunkhouser]

Anybody follow the big dustup today? That unhinged lunatic PigBus (despised by BYU fans and most Utah fans alike) started posting again and went off with a bunch of vile, disgusting tweets, many of which were directed at Jarom Jordan. Shortly thereafter, THE UTAH AD HIMSELF quote-tweeted him. He deleted it a few minutes later, but holy cow. How on earth does this happen? Harlan truly is an idiot.

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Utah Pig Bus is a racist, homophobic piece of shit. I'm embarrassed that I root for the same team as him. I have met him in person, it isn't schtick.

Harlan is a clown of an AD and should have been fired a long time ago. I don't know how he still has a job.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Study your history!

I'm pretty sure he was suggesting, which has been a cope for the fans of the uofutah for a while, that there is nothing else for the rubes in Utah Valley to do on a Saturday night, so might has well go to the BYU games.

It is one thing for dumb fans to repeat stuff like this, but quite another for an administrator.

[Bo Diddley]

Duh. God loves BYU.

[myboynoah]

Study your history!

I'm pretty sure he was suggesting, which has been a cope for the fans of the uofutah for a while, that there is nothing else for the rubes in Utah Valley to do on a Saturday night, so might has well go to the BYU games.

[Green Monstah]

Cheap shot inferring it’s just religious affiliation?

[Moliere]

Wait, what do they say is the real reason for those crowds? I’m lost on that comment.

[Omaha 680]

Such a weird, petty bunch in that AD office.

Was listening the DJ&PK last week and they were interviewing Chris Hill about a variety of things. They hit on Alex Jensen and the basketball program and the challenge of getting fans out to the Dumpsman Center. Hill acknowledged the challenge but countered that MBB attendance is down across the country. DJ&PK countered with the obvious that BYU is having no problem just down the road, I thought in an attempt to allow Hill to give some hopeful outlook about the crowds coming back as Jensen brings success to the program. Instead he noted how BYU is always able to generate good crowds for all its programs, almost praise in a way, but then couldn't help himself and ended with a "and you know what we say the real reason is for those crowds."

I don't get it. What is the real reason for the crowds? We have a passionate fanbase that cares about sports?

[myboynoah]

Anybody follow the big dustup today? That unhinged lunatic PigBus (despised by BYU fans and most Utah fans alike) started posting again and went off with a bunch of vile, disgusting tweets, many of which were directed at Jarom Jordan. Shortly thereafter, THE UTAH AD HIMSELF quote-tweeted him. He deleted it a few minutes later, but holy cow. How on earth does this happen? Harlan truly is an idiot.

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Such a weird, petty bunch in that AD office.

Was listening the DJ&PK last week and they were interviewing Chris Hill about a variety of things. They hit on Alex Jensen and the basketball program and the challenge of getting fans out to the Dumpsman Center. Hill acknowledged the challenge but countered that MBB attendance is down across the country. DJ&PK countered with the obvious that BYU is having no problem just down the road, I thought in an attempt to allow Hill to give some hopeful outlook about the crowds coming back as Jensen brings success to the program. Instead he noted how BYU is always able to generate good crowds for all its programs, almost praise in a way, but then couldn't help himself and ended with a "and you know what we say the real reason is for those crowds."

[Jeff Lebowski]

It means he really doesn’t like BYU, but he’s just trolling for a reaction. Successfully, it appears. Last we texted, he was trying to head up an NIL collective (which was a couple of years ago). I’m sure it stings that he’s struggling to keep up with his counterparts down south. In real conversations, he’s a normal, sane-adjacent guy.

But with ticks. Like those you’d expect from an Asian dude who was an outsider during his formative years in a rural Utah town!

His schtick is to be the biggest asshole in his fanbase? And make most Utah fans hate him too? To what end?

That's not a schtick, that's stupidity. Or mental illness.

[Green Monstah]

Why do you text Pig Bus?

Because he started an NIL collective (and for a while, it was for for multiple schools), and I was interested in the idea.

not a bad guy. But he will troll…like a mofo.

[falafel]

It means he really doesn’t like BYU, but he’s just trolling for a reaction. Successfully, it appears. Last we texted, he was trying to head up an NIL collective (which was a couple of years ago). I’m sure it stings that he’s struggling to keep up with his counterparts down south. In real conversations, he’s a normal, sane-adjacent guy.

But with ticks. Like those you’d expect from an Asian dude who was an outsider during his formative years in a rural Utah town!

Why do you text Pig Bus?

[Green Monstah]

Mostly a schtick. What does that even mean in this context?

He must hate his own fanbase because a portion of the B12 dislike of the Utah fanbase was caused by him.



That's a funny theory/excuse. I spent a few years of my childhood in Delta.

It means he really doesn’t like BYU, but he’s just trolling for a reaction. Successfully, it appears. Last we texted, he was trying to head up an NIL collective (which was a couple of years ago). I’m sure it stings that he’s struggling to keep up with his counterparts down south. In real conversations, he’s a normal, sane-adjacent guy.

But with ticks. Like those you’d expect from an Asian dude who was an outsider during his formative years in a rural Utah town!