New Whittingham contract momentous

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

For a GULC grad your analogizing talents suck.

For a graduate of the Mike Waters school of trolling, you fall well short. Did you receive a gentleman's "C"?

[exUte]

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.

Nice little dig by Hill at the end of the article. How many recent BYU coaches have been desired by other programs and BYU has had to come up with more money to keep them?

BYU's decision 4 years ago has been confirmed. Whitt was BYU's first choice and rightly so. None of that Management 101 speak. Good member of the church without being a zealot as well as a good coach. Some will point to his OCC, but remember Whit has his QB starter, WR and starting RB go down prior to last year. How would BYU have fared?

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

For a graduate of the Mike Waters school of trolling, you fall well short. Did you receive a gentleman's "C"?

I have really noticed his efforts going into the crapper since he went to the new board. It is almost like he needed to have Waters nearby to be effective. Now that his muse is far off, SU is just another bad message board poster. It really is a shame.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

I have really noticed his efforts going into the crapper since he went to the new board. It is almost like he needed to have Waters nearby to be effective. Now that his muse is far off, SU is just another bad message board poster. It really is a shame.

Sadly, there's some truth to this.

[NorCal Cat]

10-3 record vs BCS teams means nothing without knowing the season records for said teams.
I don't recall Utah playing very many good BCS teams in the last few years.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by NorCal Cat

10-3 record vs BCS teams means nothing without knowing the season records for said teams.
I don't recall Utah playing very many good BCS teams in the last few years.

Utah has conspired to obscure all records that indicate which BCS teams it has played in recent years. The information is just plain not available on the internet, almost like we are living in China, but instead of Falun Gong being absent from the internet pipes, it is Utah's record of BCS teams that has simply....vanished.

[NorCal Cat]

Originally Posted by Archaea

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?

The SF Bay Area is 3rd or 4th largest in U.S.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Utah has conspired to obscure all records that indicate which BCS teams it has played in recent years. The information is just plain not available on the internet, almost like we are living in China, but instead of Falun Gong being absent from the internet pipes, it is Utah's record of BCS teams that has simply....vanished.

Yawn.

BCS teams Utah has played since 2000:

'00 - Arizona, Cal, Washington St.
'01 - Oregon, Indiana
'02 - Indiana, Arizona, Michigan
'03 - A&M, California, Oregon
'04 - A&M, Arizona, North Carolina, (Pitt in Fiesta Bowl)
'05 - Arizona, North Carolina (Georgia Tech in Emerald Bowl)
'06 - UCLA
'07 - Oregon State, UCLA, Louisville
'08 - Michigan, Oregon State (Alabama in Sugar Bowl)

All you need to do is make the effort to look.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Utah has conspired to obscure all records that indicate which BCS teams it has played in recent years. The information is just plain not available on the internet, almost like we are living in China, but instead of Falun Gong being absent from the internet pipes, it is Utah's record of BCS teams that has simply....vanished.

Another very nice piece of work, a mockery of the idiot Norcal. I'm convinced the problem is people take you too seriously.

Waters, I'm nearly panicstricken at the prospect that nobody much reads your fine work any longer. What shall we do?