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leftyjace said:
OMG can we just quit with the BYU obsession around here already no offense but geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
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Quite honestly, if you come back and look at this thread during the course of the season, you really won't see any BYU talk (aside from the week we play them). Things get boring in here during the offseason and of course it ends up leading to Utah/BYU smack talk.

I eagerly await the time our thoughts are filled with USC, Oregon, and UCLA.
 
jazzman12 said:
Quite honestly, if you come back and look at this thread during the course of the season, you really won't see any BYU talk (aside from the week we play them). Things get boring in here during the offseason and of course it ends up leading to Utah/BYU smack talk.

I eagerly await the time our thoughts are filled with USC, Oregon, and UCLA.
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Good post
 
Bill Reilly was told this by people in the program:

Williams is the best leader we've had at QB since Brian Johnson.

Williams treats this like a job and he is a professional. He is here to do his job and isn't going to let anyone hold him back. If a WR drops a ball, he gets on the WR. If a defensive player takes a shot at one of his offensive players, he gets in the defensive player's face.

He works his tail off. Film, lifting, practice. He is here to win the job, win games and continue his football career.

He isn't here to make friends. He is here to succeed.

Huntley is like a mini-Williams. Very professional and workman like. Then Scott Mitchell said that this situation is great for Huntley because he can see Williams work, Huntley can learn from that, get his body and mind ready, and in two years take over the job.

I LOVE what I just wrote/heard.
 
So I have a question for the Ute fans in here.

How did you become a Ute fan?

Alumni? Neighborhood? Family?

I'll start.

I grew up in a BYU household. But then I started attending the U. I graduated with my Bachelor's just 9 short years ago, and that last year of school I was going full time and was up on campus all the time. I was a non-traditional student before that, and taking a year to be a traditional student to get it done and finished really made me fall in love with the school. Then, when I got my MBA there, it more than sealed the deal. I am a two-time graduate of the U and love that place a lot a really lot.
 
leftyjace said:
So I have a question for the Ute fans in here.

How did you become a Ute fan?

Alumni? Neighborhood? Family?

I'll start.

I grew up in a BYU household. But then I started attending the U. I graduated with my Bachelor's just 9 short years ago, and that last year of school I was going full time and was up on campus all the time. I was a non-traditional student before that, and taking a year to be a traditional student to get it done and finished really made me fall in love with the school. Then, when I got my MBA there, it more than sealed the deal. I am a two-time graduate of the U and love that place a lot a really lot.
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I was a BYU fan, I was 8 and they were good and on TV a lot. My dad cured me by taking me to a few Ute home games then took me to the BYU/Utah football game that same year. I never went back been a Utah fan ever since.
 
leftyjace said:
So I have a question for the Ute fans in here.

How did you become a Ute fan?
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My mom and dad both went there. My dad played football and jv basketball. So early on in life just like the jazz it was the team you rooted for. My uncle played football there as well and could had made the nfl if he didnt blow out his knee.
 
Born and raised

That being said I've lost interest in almost all the teams I cared about as a kid. The Jazz and Utes are in my city. That's a big part of the reason why I still follow them. Basketball is the only sport I truly follow. I would watch basketball regardless, love it. The only other sporting events that I watch are the Masters and Utes Football. If not for the Utes I would have stopped watching football for sure.
 
I was a young boy just getting interested in football and I watched the infamous Scott Mitchell game in which the Utes beat BYU for the first time in a decade in dominating fashion. In a weird way, Utah's ineptness against BYU is what drew me in. I was fascinated with the commentators talking about just how much of an underdog Utah was and how BYU owned the rivalry. Seeing how excited Ute fans and players were as they beat them absolutely captivated me and it's been true love ever since...

I went on to attend The U, briefly. Then I found some poon, joined the workforce, and compromised on all of my lifelong hopes and dreams.
 
jazzman12 said:
I was a young boy just getting interested in football and I watched the infamous Scott Mitchell game in which the Utes beat BYU for the first time in a decade in dominating fashion. In a weird way, Utah's ineptness against BYU is what drew me in. I was fascinated with the commentators talking about just how much of an underdog Utah was and how BYU owned the rivalry. Seeing how excited Ute fans and players were as they beat them absolutely captivated me and it's been true love ever since...

I went on to attend The U, briefly. Then I found some poon, joined the workforce, and compromised on all of my lifelong hopes and dreams.
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I was there! 57-28
 
I grew up outside of Utah. My Step-Father's family knew I was born in Utah and my dad still lived there, so I was a "Utah Everything Fan". When the cousins would get Buckeye/Cavs Gear, I would get Jazz/Utah gear. The ironic thing was, my mom would always joke around how she hated it because she graduated from BYU.

That's how I grew up watching the Jazz. I always have watched all the Utah and BYU games. After high school, I went to UVU for a year and then transferred to BYU. My first semester at BYU I met my wife. She was in a program at Weber State she couldn't move/transfer. So I transferred up to Weber State and hated it. So, after one semester I transferred to Utah.

After Utah, we moved to Pennsylvania. At that point, I was honestly a 50/50 Utah/BYU fan. Actually, probably more of a BYU fan than a Utah fan. A lot of my classmates were BYU fans and when I'd watch games with them they would talk a lot about Utah, the team and the students. They were pretty demeaning of anything Utah related and that really soured me, seeing how I graduated from there, had spent 1.5 years there, and knew from first hand experience that they were just flat out wrong.

From then on, my liking of BYU wained. Then, as you take a step back from the BYU culture, you realize that most BYU fans are the same. They have their storylines, they have their stereotypes, and that is just the way it is. I mean, Utah never beats BYU, it's always "Utah got lucky turnovers" "Utah is lucky the game was ____insert date____ instead of ____insert other date____" "Utah was lucky ____insert player's name____ was so new or didn't play."

It gets old.

I still watch every BYU football game. I respect Bronco. I think he did a great job. I love Kalani. I've found that the more I associate with BYU fans, the more I dislike BYU. The more I separate myself from them, the more I can enjoy BYU. I only discuss BYU here because the BYU fans are alright, even though they may all hate me. ha ha.

But I love Utah. We went there the other night with my kids. It's crazy how much it has changed since I was there. But, my circle next to he HEB building is still there. The circle where I would cram before tests. The circle I'd sit and sweat out results on. The circle I cried tears of fear of failure and tears of joy of success.

1994 might still be my favorite season. I remember that they would all show me the newspaper clips showing whether Utah won or lost and where Utah was in the rankings and how they were climbing. I was so proud and loved the attention even though I really had no clue what was going on.

I remember riding Trax to school and seeing Urban on the Trax handing out tickets to games and thinking that he could be special. My wife's first football game was the AF game in 2003. What an ending.

I love what Whitt has built. I love what the school provides. I love how many kids graduate there. I love how Whitt has created a culture that allows these young men to mature and become better people. I love the family feel to the school as a whole.

Who am I sir? A Utah Man Am I.
 
green said:
I grew up outside of Utah. My Step-Father's family knew I was born in Utah and my dad still lived there, so I was a "Utah Everything Fan". When the cousins would get Buckeye/Cavs Gear, I would get Jazz/Utah gear. The ironic thing was, my mom would always joke around how she hated it because she graduated from BYU.

That's how I grew up watching the Jazz. I always have watched all the Utah and BYU games. After high school, I went to UVU for a year and then transferred to BYU. My first semester at BYU I met my wife. She was in a program at Weber State she couldn't move/transfer. So I transferred up to Weber State and hated it. So, after one semester I transferred to Utah.

After Utah, we moved to Pennsylvania. At that point, I was honestly a 50/50 Utah/BYU fan. Actually, probably more of a BYU fan than a Utah fan. A lot of my classmates were BYU fans and when I'd watch games with them they would talk a lot about Utah, the team and the students. They were pretty demeaning of anything Utah related and that really soured me, seeing how I graduated from there, had spent 1.5 years there, and knew from first hand experience that they were just flat out wrong.

From then on, my liking of BYU wained. Then, as you take a step back from the BYU culture, you realize that most BYU fans are the same. They have their storylines, they have their stereotypes, and that is just the way it is. I mean, Utah never beats BYU, it's always "Utah got lucky turnovers" "Utah is lucky the game was ____insert date____ instead of ____insert other date____" "Utah was lucky ____insert player's name____ was so new or didn't play."

It gets old.

I still watch every BYU football game. I respect Bronco. I think he did a great job. I love Kalani. I've found that the more I associate with BYU fans, the more I dislike BYU. The more I separate myself from them, the more I can enjoy BYU. I only discuss BYU here because the BYU fans are alright, even though they may all hate me. ha ha.

But I love Utah. We went there the other night with my kids. It's crazy how much it has changed since I was there. But, my circle next to he HEB building is still there. The circle where I would cram before tests. The circle I'd sit and sweat out results on. The circle I cried tears of fear of failure and tears of joy of success.

1994 might still be my favorite season. I remember that they would all show me the newspaper clips showing whether Utah won or lost and where Utah was in the rankings and how they were climbing. I was so proud and loved the attention even though I really had no clue what was going on.

I remember riding Trax to school and seeing Urban on the Trax handing out tickets to games and thinking that he could be special. My wife's first football game was the AF game in 2003. What an ending.

I love what Whitt has built. I love what the school provides. I love how many kids graduate there. I love how Whitt has created a culture that allows these young men to mature and become better people. I love the family feel to the school as a whole.

Who am I sir? A Utah Man Am I.
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Piggy backing on your "family feel" statement, I've got a pretty cool story that I recently heard that made me pretty proud of our football program:

I work with a guy who is in the same ward as a young man who just finished playing LB at Syracuse High (I will get the kids name later, as I've already forgotten it). After his season ended, he started training with former BYU LB Brian Kehl. Kehl really liked the kid and talked with Bronco and his staff and they offered him preferred walk on status. Long story short, he spent some time up at BYU doing some camps, working out with a lot of the guys, etc. When Bronco went to Virginia, the kid got lost in the shuffle and the new staff told him there'd be no room for him at BYU. Kehl helped him out again, talked to a few defensive coaches at Utah, and he's since joined the program as a walk on.

My coworker (who's a BYU fan) got the chance to visit with him a couple of weeks ago and he asked him what the major differences where in the 2 programs based on his limited time visiting both places. He told him that while informally training/visiting at BYU, he probably had 2 or 3 players say "Hi" to him and that the team seem to have little cliques and just not a lot of full team interaction (o line hangs out with o line, etc). He didn't think that was really out of the ordinary, until he showed up at Utah where he was immediately pulled aside by some of the Utah senior players and told "You're here now, you're family. We got you". Over the course of the summer, he'd get texts from players asking him how he was doing, they'd invite him to come hang out, and so on. He told my coworker that there is not one guy on that team that isn't treated like a brother, whether your a walk-on, or a team captain.

This is just 1 story, so take it for what it's worth, but for me, it really shined a light on what Utah is doing right and makes me feel like the recent momentum they've built in the Pac12 has a pretty damn good chance of only getting better. IMO, this program is really close to getting to a level that I honestly didn't think I'd ever see.
 
jazzman12 said:
Piggy backing on your "family feel" statement, I've got a pretty cool story that I recently heard that made me pretty proud of our football program:

I work with a guy who is in the same ward as a young man who just finished playing LB at Syracuse High (I will get the kids name later, as I've already forgotten it). After his season ended, he started training with former BYU LB Brian Kehl. Kehl really liked the kid and talked with Bronco and his staff and they offered him preferred walk on status. Long story short, he spent some time up at BYU doing some camps, working out with a lot of the guys, etc. When Bronco went to Virginia, the kid got lost in the shuffle and the new staff told him there'd be no room for him at BYU. Kehl helped him out again, talked to a few defensive coaches at Utah, and he's since joined the program as a walk on.

My coworker (who's a BYU fan) got the chance to visit with him a couple of weeks ago and he asked him what the major differences where in the 2 programs based on his limited time visiting both places. He told him that while informally training/visiting at BYU, he probably had 2 or 3 players say "Hi" to him and that the team seem to have little cliques and just not a lot of full team interaction (o line hangs out with o line, etc). He didn't think that was really out of the ordinary, until he showed up at Utah where he was immediately pulled aside by some of the Utah senior players and told "You're here now, you're family. We got you". Over the course of the summer, he'd get texts from players asking him how he was doing, they'd invite him to come hang out, and so on. He told my coworker that there is not one guy on that team that isn't treated like a brother, whether your a walk-on, or a team captain.

This is just 1 story, so take it for what it's worth, but for me, it really shined a light on what Utah is doing right and makes me feel like the recent momentum they've built in the Pac12 has a pretty damn good chance of only getting better. IMO, this program is really close to getting to a level that I honestly didn't think I'd ever see.
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Damn. That got me all warm and fuzzy inside.
I love that family is so emphasized in our program.
 
Stewart Mandel of Fox Sports released his rankings of the top 20 coaches in college football and University of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham made the list at No. 17.

"Whittingham led the Utes to national prominence (including a 13-0 record and final No. 2 ranking in 2008) while in the Mountain West and now produced consecutive Top 25 seasons in the Pac-12. His teams are annually among the most physical in the country."

Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo made the list at No. 15, while former Utah coach Urban Meyer landed at the No. 2 spot.
 
Whitt should be higher. Taking Utah from JV to Varsity in a non-recruit rich area is quite the accomplishment.
 
green said:
Whitt should be higher. Taking Utah from JV to Varsity in a non-recruit rich area is quite the accomplishment.
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What does jv to varsity mean?
 
Siale Fakailoatonga out for the year with an ACL tear. He was the slated starting TE this year, he also tore the same knee last year after coming in for the injured Evan Moeai who was injured in the first game of the year, so Fakailoatonga started five of the Utes’ next games until injuring the knee, so in 2yrs he's played almost half the season. Man that's gotta be rough for a kid to go through and Moeai's injury history is even more painful to go through.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/utah-te-siale-fakailoatonga-tears-acl-again-200101904.html
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
Siale Fakailoatonga out for the year with an ACL tear. He was the slated starting TE this year, he also tore the same knee last year after coming in for the injured Evan Moeai who was injured in the first game of the year, so Fakailoatonga started five of the Utes’ next games until injuring the knee, so in 2yrs he's played almost half the season. Man that's gotta be rough for a kid to go through and Moeai's injury history is even more painful to go through.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/utah-te-siale-fakailoatonga-tears-acl-again-200101904.html
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Ya gotta feel bad for the kid. From a football standpoint, I think it puts Utah in an early bind for a passing game that needs all the help it can get. I felt like Fakailoatonga and Moeai being back at the TE spots was going to be a huge factor in taking pressure off of the WR corps. Now you're down one of those guys and you haven't even played a game yet. Hopefully the silver lining is that it happened early enough in camp that some other guys take the opportunity to step up.
 
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