Chad, I will admit I wish we were in the PAC 12 with Utah instead of Colorado. As for your relevance argument, I am glad you will get a game on ESPN this year. Of course if you weren’t playing at BYU you would have no nationally televised games. Your game against USC will be on Versus. Maybe you will have a double header with a MWC game that week? I think your coverage will have been better in the MWC, but at least you will have more money. Needless to say, BYU has proved they are relevant with the deal they signed with ESPN.

Utah was an afterthought once Texas turned the Pac 10 down in addition to the other 5 schools they invited to come with them. To keep Baylor from coming into the Pac 10 they invited Colorado way too early and then when Texas left them with their pants down the Pac 10 did not want to get stuck at 11, so they invited Utah. It had nothing to do with Utah success, but rather Utah was in the right place at the right time. I think it had much more to do with BYU being a religious school than it had to do with recent success, or any other factor Utah fans like to use.

Again, I would prefer the Pac 12 to independence, but it was fairly obvious early on that BYU would not be considered due to the religious affiliation. I love Independence and our deal with ESPN, but I can’t stand that our basketball conference is in the WCC.

This year has amazed me at the backlash that Max Hall is receiving for saying something that has been said many times before. I have heard U fans say that “It was worth losing just so Max would say what he did”. Really? U fans would rather lose and hear Max say something stupid than win the game? Now, I know that you are an educated fan (This is clear by how well you have done in the Pick ‘em league), and do not think this way.

Why do you think U fans have made such a big deal out of this when things like this have been said for years? Also, keep in mind that U fans did the same thing 2 years ago with the “Magic Happens” quote. I feel like a lot of U fans will do whatever they can to take the focus away from the game whenever they lose. Camille can back me up in that whenever BYU loses I will congratulate the other side and that is it. It is just interesting to me because I could care less what players say before or after the game. It is fun to follow, but at the end of the day all I care about is the result.

I wish the football rivalry would become more like the basketball rivalry. Coach Rose and Boylen are both class acts and they handle things the right way.

Nice find Camille, that is dirty!