New Whittingham contract momentous

[MikeWaters]

What major college football sports power is a public school located in a major metro area?

They are pretty rare. Most of them are in college towns.

UCLA?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

What major college football sports power is a public school located in a major metro area?

They are pretty rare. Most of them are in college towns.

UCLA?

It depends upon how you define "major".

In one sense there may only be three to five major metros, NYC, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and what else?

Is Columbus?

Is Austin?

But your point has some validity.

[MikeWaters]

I can't speak to Columbus. But historically, Austin has been a small town. That has only recently grown.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Moron, if they didn't get hired for being Mormons the U of U would be violating federal labor laws. Waters is baiting you. His evidence is that they didn't think Quinn was a worthy hire. Big deal. Tenure track positions are incredibly competitive in case you didn't know. I doubt anyone could get to first base making a case that the U of U didn't hire him because he was LDS.

YOur point about Young can be made more diretly. The U of U hired a qualified academic LDS as its president.

I'd say mostly the U of U ignores the LDS Church. It's of no moment to the U of U. The LDS Church, though, hates the U of U's academic culture.

Like most of my comments, you missed the point.

I was asking if Young has anything to do with the hiring of professors.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I can't speak to Columbus. But historically, Austin has been a small town. That has only recently grown.

Boston has never really been a major power in college athletics, nor Philadelphia.

DC no.

Atlanta, GTech?

Dallas? SMU had been a major football power at one time.

But more often mid-sized towns supported their alma mater better.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Too many people who attended merely out of convenience and price.

You sure you're not talking about BYU fans?

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

You sure you're not talking about BYU fans?

A Utah fan who happens to attend BYU out of convenience and price is extremely rare. A BYU fan who happens to attend Utah is commonplace.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by BlueK

A Utah fan who happens to attend BYU out of convenience and price is extremely rare. A BYU fan who happens to attend Utah is commonplace.

Ok, that makes more sense.

I thought Mike was taking one of his usual lame shots at Utah fans, so I countered with an equally lame shot at BYU fans.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The new Whittingham contract is of enormous significance. Utah has gone to two BCS games in five years, the first non-BCS team to go to two. The first time it beat the Big East champioin 35-7, and now it will play a truly elite team, Alabama, in the SUGAR BOWL. In the past six years Utah has three MWC titles, has won 80 percent of its games, has a 10-3 record against BCS teams, and Utah has won seven bowl games in a row. Utah is 20-1 in its last 21 games, and has won 13 in a row.

Now Utah has a world class coach who wants to stay at Utah, and Utah has raised the funds to pay him a market salary per a long term contract. A fitting capstone! Utah's program and tradition will now really begin to pull away from the rest of the conference. Watch for a surge in recruiting. Early returns already suggest the best Utah recruiting class ever, and they're still beating the bushes and anticipation of 2/4/09.

Signed,

Notre Dame fans in 2005.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Signed,

Notre Dame fans in 2005.

For a GULC grad your analogizing talents suck.