So don't the cheap shots from ute players have the potential for injury too?
How about the cheap shots from other teams?
Maybe all sports against all teams should be cancelled.
Ugghhh, I wasn't gonna get sucked into this, but here I go:
Here's the bottom line of the whole thing:
As a Ute fan, I'm fine with the action they've taken, and if I were a BYU fan, I would be absolutely EMBARRASSED to be associated with BYU in seeing the reactions from not only the fans, but your very own administration. I expect BYU to be unhappy about the buyout, but sheesh, by the way they're acting, it's as if they've never bought out a sporting event with an opponent. Look it up, all schools do it from time to time. It's a common practice. Not only that, we're not too far removed from Dave Rose himself insisting that if the Utah State series continued, it would have to do so in SLC because Rose wanted no part of playing up in Logan anymore.
I'm also enjoying the false outrage by Holmoe and Rose. As Larry said in his statement, he contacted Rose a couple days after the game to notify him that he was planning on canceling the 2016 game. That was a month ago. Yet here you have these guys acting like the news came out of left field, trying to drum up allies and gain victim status. Did they think Krysko was bluffing and that he didn't have the stones to actually go through with it? Either way, shame on them both for behaving the way they have when they both knew this was coming much sooner than any of us found out. Shame on Greg Wrubbel for taking to twitter calling Utah disingenuous liars who breeched a contract when the contract clearly had the option of playing the game, or paying a buyout. Play-by-Play guys are supposed to be as professional, and non-homerish as possible. 2 things Mr. Wrubbel obviously doesn't have much regard for.
And for the record, it's not about player safety. What it is about is the fact that after Emery threw the punch, he verbally accosts Taylor, then makes his way over to Krysko and yells more **** in his direction. While it's going down, the BYU bench is yelling at and berating the Utah bench and Brandon Taylor. While this is going on, what is Rose doing? What is his staff doing? Whether BYU fans want to face it or not, you guys have had a HORRIBLE string of publicity since the Miami Beach Brawl and like it or not, it's been warranted. BYU hasn't helped matters by leveling slap-on-the-wrist type of suspensions and keeping them private. Hell, Emery wasn't even punished by BYU. The 1-game suspension was levied by the WCC. And I don't want to hear: "We don't know what Rose did to Emery behind closed doors". That's ********. His actions deserved more than a few extra wind sprints after practice (that probably didn't happen anyway).
When Emery is allowed to sucker-punch an opponent and yell profanities at an opposing coach, yet doesn't miss a single game at the hands of BYU, can you blame people (especially opposing coaches) for thinking that there just might be a wee lack of institutional control? IMO, the Emery punch wasn't even as bad as the following behavior from Emery and the BYU team as a whole. You can bet that Krysko see's BYU's complete lack of action as a spit in the face, and so he decided to do what he could about it.
You have the Miami Beach Brawl, the kid from Nebraska getting his knee blown out on an unnecessary hit, Alligator rolls, the Boise State nut punch, Langi punching a ball carrier @ USU, Mika being ejected for throwing elbows against Utah in '13, and the Emery incident, and yet STILL, BYU fans and administration refuse to look inward and take accountability for what everybody else can clearly see is a troubling pattern. It's all about how Utah is the Devil, etc.
Props to Krysko for being the guy that FINALLY made BYU accountable for something.
