"From my Zoobie intern who [was] introduced [to] this board by proxy to the concept of bagpiping. This guy truly believes that the Zoobies are a sleeping giant that’s going through a bad spell much like the pre-Stoops Sooners. My reply: “Baaah aaaaahhahaahahahaahaaa! Oh my gosh, help, ouch. Oh the irony. Oklahoma. That’s funny. Get back to work.” The silliness and bizzaro nature of this pre-season is just SO ENTERTAINING I can’t get anything done."
By: UtesRus, August 18, 2004

"I think it is great that SLC is finally excited about Utah football. The real question that keeps lingering in the back of my mind is what happens if they lose that opening game. Will the excitement stay at the same level, or will the fans go back into normal Utah fan mode of not caring that much? I hope they stay excited because I have always said the only way this conference is going to get the respect it wants is to play good football and pack the stadiums."
By: JohnVA, August 18, 2004

"[BYU fans] have not yet assimilated the fact that times have changed. Seriously, ... look at how long it has taken most of them to admit they are not a top tier team any more. Will it take them less time to admit that we have equalled or heaven forbid surpassed them? ... It is going to take another great season before most of them will be convinced I think (i.e. when the evidence has reached the point that not even they can deny it)."
By: UtahDan, August 18, 2004

"I have to admit last year I kidded OhioBlue about how the Cougar fans viewed the Cal game with fear because it pointed out how easily the Utes could blow by the Cougars in the market place. I was just tossing smack but, now the smack is coming true. It is no longer a joke; this hype storm is dangerous and could turn on the Utes if they can’t produce on the field. However if the experts are right and Utah reproduces or exceeds last years results the market shift in the BYU/Utah balance of power will be cemented. The BYU fans can feel the earth moving under their feet. Indeed a “Red Dawn” is coming."
By: Vegas Ute, August 18, 2004

"Timburrrrrrrrrr! If a Koog fan posts on UteFans.Net, but all Utes fans ignore him, does the Koog fan make a noise?"
By: USS Utah, August 17, 2004

"At this point, I'm not even certain why we discuss anymore whether the D will be ready or not. In fact, KW's record is so stellar in this league that I'm not going to waste time trying to justify his ability to put a quality D on the field. He could put up a good D using 3 goats, 7 monkeys and Shawn Bradley. "
By: TheSportsProfessor, August 12, 2004

"I think the big question mark on Crowton isn't how well he gets a team ready for the year, but what progress does the team make after the first 20 plays of the season? Even giving that [practice] report the benefit of the doubt and everything looks as good as he said, Crowton has done nothing to improve his teams as the season progresses the past two years. That seems to be the biggest problem. What happens once teams have scouted you? Sure you drop 70 (really 70) on powerhouses like Tulane, or manhandle a GTech team starting a true freshman QB, but what happens two weeks into the season? Other teams improve, TDS plays exactly the same. I'm sure those first 20 plays of the season Crowton is scripting right now will blow up like dynamite on ND, but what happens for the rest of the season?"
By: feeldafunk, August 12, 2004

"[AncientUte,] I only have one clarification on your post. BYU students are the 'cream of a very creamy crop.' Not, as you suggest, the 'creamiest of the cream.' A minor distinction, but I think an important one."
By: TribUTE, August 12, 2004

"[Regarding attendance smack:] Give them [cougar fans] a break, they don't really have anything else left. What's next? The Concrete Y on our mountain is larger the the concrete U?"
By: jhill, August 11, 2004

"Paul Soliai and Robert Conley do not have legs. They have flesh colored sequoias. i can see why their squat numbers are so high."
By: DraculaUte, August 10, 2004

"Obviously, these comments [by Cougar fans] against Marty have more to do with football than religion. I suspect that if MJ were an average student and not an incredibly talented running back capable of causing all sorts of havoc on their beloved cougs, no BYU fan would have any beef about how the situation was handled by the Utes. In fact, I bet most would applaud the way it was handled."
By: TribUTE, August 10, 2004

"With all the comparisons made between BCS and non-BCS and Con-USA/MAC vs. MWC -- I noticed something I haven't seen mentioned before. The 17-0 pasting of S. Miss in the Liberty Bowl was the ONLY shutout of the entire bowl season."
By: RavenUte, August 10, 2004

"Figuring out the analogies and allusions in a Harmon piece is sort of like trying to make sense of rock lyrics written by drugged-out hullucenating rocker grasping for a phrase with the right meter that rhymes with hair. Alligator lizards in the air? As long as the zoobs continue to lap-up any drivel that has a positive zoob spin, his columns will sell papers, and that is all the DesNews cares about."
By: Maji Man, August 10, 2004

"I just can't take my eyes away from the train wreck that is a Dick Harmon article. I continue to read Dick's articles just to see if it really is that bad. I keep hoping he'll take some journalism classes at Orem Junior High and come up a notch in the world. Dick Harmon is the only person I can think of who makes George W. Bush look like a master of the English Language."
By: runninutebball, August 10, 2004

"'Even with the losses in personnel, three of them starters, Crowton claims he had fewer problems last year than any season at any other university he has coached at in 20 years' - What?!?! Where has he been coaching for the last 20 years? Colorado? Point of the Mountain?"
By: mafu, August 10, 2004

"One quote from [BYU QB John] Beck on Sunday that I saw no mention of... Zippy: 'That swagger has been missing (on the offensine side of the ball) the past couple of years.' Beck: 'ya, hopefully with these new jerseys that comes on in and we start playing good.' So evidently NEW JERSEYS is the key to turning around an offense. Someone should have told Chris Hill. He could have saved all that money we spent on UM's contract and we could have turned around the program by ripping off some NFL team's unis."
By: Dog Will Hunt, August 10, 2004

"Since when was hospitality ever offered to losers from other teams that want to talk smack?"
By: Safado, August 6, 2004

"The guy makes you want to march out of the room with him and go conquer some foreign land. (on Coach Urban Meyer) "
By: two utes, August 4, 2004

"(Affleck) should go back to High School... That way he can avoid competition, enjoy some home cooked meals, and his mom can help him with his homework. "
By: urbandevelopment, August 2, 2004

"I've actually heard from sources close to the BYU program that Crowton...[is] drawing up a lot more trick plays like the one he used a lot last year where John Beck put the ball on the ground and curled up in the fetal position. I thought about incorporating that play into my little league playbook, but I'm still having trouble figuring out exactly the right moment to run it."
By: ColoUte, August 2, 2004

"[Speaking of Aaron Francisco,] Is the number of tackles really the end-all-be-all stat that judges a Safety? Shouldn't there be some kind of stat that measures Safeties that DON'T become Tim Gilligan's or David Anderson's Rodolfo?"
By: ColoUte, July 27, 2004

"Chris Hill. The man is a genius and the epitome of what an Athletic Director should be. Urban will stay [at Utah] for a man who is so cool his e-mail address begins with "chill"."
By: RavenUte, July 23, 2004

"Saying that UM [Urban Meyer] is outshining GC [Gary Crowton] is like saying that the sun is outshining the moon."
By: loyter, July 21, 2004

"I have always believed the biggest key to winning is having more points than the other team at the end of the game, but then again I'm not a Zoob and I don't understand the moral victory."
By: Mr Crimson, July 20, 2004

"You know that Meyer wants his players to take it one game at a time, but fans are given a nod and a wink... WE ARE THE HYPE MONKEYS! The gas that runs the machine. You want record attendance? let the fans get juiced."
By: urbandevelopment, July 20, 2004

"Just because BYU forks out my tithing money and fields lots of different sports teams doesn't mean they are a sports powerhouse, it just means they field a lot of teams. Sports powerhouses usually win an NCAA tournament game once in a while. Quantity does not equal quality. BYU is the Chuck-a-Rama of college sports."
By: Wakara, July 16, 2004

"[My] First recollection [as a Ute fan] is the Final 4 with Jerry Chambers. I was only early teens I think. Just to watch them on black and white TV and knowing that [the] school was in Salt Lake (I lived in Brigham City), made it seem like my home team. I loved the idea we were big time. After my mission and college I moved to Salt Lake for work and then saw the old stadium and thought to myself, 'they play football too?' I was so happy I could follow football too."
By: utenut, July 15, 2004

"The argument that Utah couldn't compete in the Big 12 is Pure BS. Throw Utah into the Big 12 and we would still float to the top with the current adminstration. Why? If Utah had the exposure of the Big 12 and the $$$ of the Big 12 teams we would recruit better athletes that UM could make into even better athletes. That being said the fact that UM can take athletes the Big 12 wouldn't have and make national contenders (top 25) out of them shows that in a different conference our position in that conference wouldn't change much! That being said how pathetic is it that every BCS conference team doesn't win EVERY single game against an Association [NCAA] team by at least 20 points. Embarrasing in my humble opinion!"
By: number1utefan, July 15, 2004

"[It was said,] LET THERE BE HYPE... and there was HYPE... and Meyer saw that it was good."
By: urbandevelopment, July 15, 2004

"As my dad is a Ute, I remember bits and pieces of going to football and basketball games (I'm told since I was a baby) and some Utah-BYU games on TV. The moment when I felt the passion and have been diehard ever since was the end of a Utah-Wyoming game in 198? (pre-Fassel but I'm not sure what year). I believe the game was tied with time winding down when Wyoming drove the ball to the Utah 6 yard line. I began watching intently and felt nervous that Wyoming was sure to win. Then, the Wyoming quarterback dropped back to pass and off a corneback blitz (Erroll Tucker?) tipped the pass (or maybe hit the ball right from his hands) & another Ute caught the ball and it was off to the races for a touchdown and victory - what a rush!!!"
By: yaguara, July 15, 2004

"One of the first years they held the WAC tournament [I became a Ute fan]. We were playing WYO in the Huntsman Center (then name the Special Events Center), and we were down 1 with one second left. My father, with his great wisdom, decided to leave to 'beat the traffic,' by the time we get back to the car, I hear Bill Marcroft call the final :01 that lasted 5 minutes. WYO has the ball out of bounds and throws the ball away, giving us the ball back in our half of the court. Manny Hendrix comes off a pick on the baseline and buries a 18 footer with no time left on the clock... To this day, I'm still having problems forgiving my father for leaving early."
By: BigNumbers, July 15, 2004

"[My first memories of becoming an ardent Ute fan:] It was on my mission, back in the winter of 1985. I served in SoCal, and our mission president used to let the missionaries watch the BYU games at their Stake Center (over satellite). I cheered for BYU in every game except one – the Utah game. After all, I had gone to the U. during my freshman year, played in the band, and grown to love the Utes. However, up until that point I still considered myself a fan of both the U. and the Y. But during that game, I was actually getting excited as Erroll Tucker and the Utes played the Y pretty close. And the other people around me could sense my excitement, which they found quite annoying. I didn’t intend to be annoying, but I guess I was. Before long, they asked me to leave. I couldn’t believe it – I wasn’t being rude or anything, just clapping for the Utes. At that point, I realized I could never be a fan of both schools, and I achieved total 'Uteness.'"
By: AncientUte, July 15, 2004

"Josh Grant's thunderous throwdown over Stick Boy my freshman year [made me a Ute fan]. I was sitting in the third row of the student section when Josh jumped from (it seemed like) outside the paint and posterized poor Mr. Bradley. At that point I knew I would always love the Utes."
By: TCUte, July 15, 2004

"Being four years old, sitting in the student section w/my dad [made me a Ute fan.] We didn't have the money for reserved seats back then and since my dad was a grad student we could still get in for free. We would go two hours early (this became a ritual) with a bag of Dee's hamburgers (10 cents each, remember?) and watch the team warm-up. We had great seats that way and that definitely made me a fan for life!"
By: crzdutenut-o-rama, July 15, 2004

"I'll admit it - I'm a convert to the Ute cause. I wholly converted to the U when I was a senior in high school. I'd like to say that it was the science day fair thing that I attended at the U, but I hate science and it was a good excuse to get a day off of school and a road trip to boot. My conversion was solidified that year by the run to the Final 4 and the national championship game. I knew I was a Ute when my heart broke following UK's comeback in the second half of the championship. It's easy to jump on a bandwagon, but I knew I was on for good because of my poor little broken heart."
By: ute_in_va, July 15, 2004

"December 1989, Utah vs Purdue in basketball [made me a Ute fan]. Back then they had half season student tickets and I snaked tickets on the 2nd rown in section B. Everyone is expecting Purdue to kick our ass. Instead I get to see a Utah hoops team under Rick Majerus go to war and nearly pull it out. Right then I knew I was a Ute fan."
By: Mr Crimson, July 15, 2004

"What is your first memory of having been an ardent Ute fan? My 'moment of Ute-ness' was when I waited in line in the snow outside the Huntsman Center (then the Special Events Center) until 2:00 a.m. for tickets to the 1978 Utah-New Mexico game. Actually, I wasn't waiting for tickets, I was waiting for a number, so I could then come back later for actual tickets. It was pretty crazy. Now, I may have been a Ute fan before then, but that's the point at which I can definitely say I was a Ute."
By: LA Ute, July 15, 2004

"BYU has moved into sheer amusement for me. I mean their beat reporter writing about how Carlos Boozer spent a week in Provo six years ago and that's why he signed here [with the Utah Jazz]. One of their QB's considers himself the starter because he can almost make a fist [with his injured hand]. Their football coach has said, 'I wanted to win by nine not by two,' 'If I can think up one or two more trick plays we'll win.' I mean you couldn't make this stuff up."
By: Mr Crimson, July 15, 2004

"[About the U/Y Rivalry:]We are all crabs and we will gladly pull down a fellow crab for the momentary pleasure of seeing them fall because in our hearts we know that the rising tide ain't really going to lift us very high and in the back of our mind is the thought that if we are lifted what if they get up on the dock first?"
By: Goatnapper'96, July 14, 2004

"You all have a front row seat to the greatest unknown football conference in America [the MWC]. Embrace what you have, and continue to dream for things that may come!"
By: East Coast Bias, July 14, 2004