02-21-2008, 06:14 AM | #11 |
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IPU, you're acting like a PC liberal. Zoots, yewts, or Utes, there just weren't many of any of them at the game. Plain and simple.
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02-21-2008, 06:15 AM | #12 |
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Correct. Unlike a PC liberal, I eventually admitted I was wrong in this thread.
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**Note** This is not a knock on you. I know you're a real Ute fan.
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02-21-2008, 06:24 AM | #14 | |
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The students at the U really are pathetic basketball fans. I see several football players in the student section and it makes me wonder if they ever think about announcing to their classmates to get their hinies to the HC to watch the basketball games. (Louie Sakoda is the loudest student in that small group.) Unfortunately for Utah, it suffers from acute commuterism and I'd even guess a bit of Cougarism as well as I know 2 Utah students in my ward who are BYU athletic fans.
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02-21-2008, 12:22 PM | #15 |
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Sad they aren't showing up as in the past, but the worst thing I've seen is all the "we got screwed by the refs" talk over on UteFans. There was a time not so far off that that was the sole territory of "those stupid zoobies."
Urban's impact was greater than we all thought possible.
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02-21-2008, 12:47 PM | #16 |
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Boylan knows he has to win fans back. The diehards will always be there, it's the casual fan/student that you have to win back at a school like Utah and that just takes time.
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02-21-2008, 02:14 PM | #17 |
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Something else that surprised me a bit: we had more BYU fans to the UNLV game last week (22K) than to the Utah game last night (19K).
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02-21-2008, 03:48 PM | #18 |
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Like Rocky said, I think the lower attendance had more to do with it being an 8:00pm start time on a wednesday night than the fact that it was Utah versus UNLV. The students should have still shown up in full force, but you're going to lose a good chunk of those with kids, like IPU who would rather not have their kids get home at 11:00 on a school night.
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I like Boylen a lot, but most realize that Utah saw its pinnacle just a few years ago and it is going to take some time to reenergize those who believe they had discovered their manifest destiny. It will be interesting to see how the Utes react against a very difficult UNM squad on saturday.
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02-21-2008, 04:20 PM | #20 |
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Utes tend to work more in evenings/nights/graveyard. You don't think gas stations run themselves, do you?
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