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  1. Interesting comments on B12 vs W10 from Brock Huard: link. “I was in Arizona on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I got to see Kyle [Whittingham] and his wife on Monday night at dinner,” said Huard to the KSL Sports Zone’s Hans & Scotty G. “I got to mingle with a lot of the coaches and the ADs and the Commissioner (George Kliavkoff), and then we did the same the next night with the Big 12. And I will tell you, you could not have had two different environments. “The Tuesday night get-together and shindig with the Big 12, there was so much momentum, so much energy. You know, the first-year Commissioner (Brett Yormark) is a driver. He is an expansionist … aggressive, and you feel it. The conference is following that lead as they got their TV deal, and they’re not done.” ... “On the flip side, the night before with the Pac-12, I’m not going to say survivalist, but it was not a lot of vision cast,” Huard said. “And how could it be with so much unknown in a media deal that, as one AD told me, ‘It’s close.’ But close is good for horseshoes and that’s not good in this business because we’ve got to get this deal done.” Like the Big 12, the Pac-12 lost two bell cow brands when USC and UCLA announced they were going to the Big Ten. Since that day on June 30 last year, the Pac-12 has been working to secure its future. Huard, who is part of the Pac-12’s Football Alumni Council, shared his thoughts on the vision he heard from the league’s commissioner. “Well, it was hard for me to listen to George Kliavkoff. I’ve been around him probably half a dozen times, and I sit on their alumni council. I’ve actually really appreciated much of his tone and tenor. I thought last year at Media Days he was bold, borderline gruff. … Showed his disappointment in USC and UCLA leaving, and all of that. I thought he handled it really well. This is the first time Monday night, where I’m like, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.’ I don’t need to hear about the water polo team and that you guys went 19-2 out of conference.” “What they need to hear is the direction; what they need to hear is that we’re close to a deal. And now, obviously, [Kliavkoff] can’t do that publicly and you don’t negotiate through the public and all of that. My gut and my hunch, Scotty, is that there is a deal there. But it’s not at the numbers anywhere near the number they want. It’s likely a deal that’s going to be spliced amongst a bunch of the networks. I thought the company that I worked with at Fox was out. I got a sense over this week that they’re not because right now, I think a lot of these networks are feeling some blood in the water that there may be a number now that, at first, the Pac-12 scoffed at. But now may have to live with and it may be a number that doesn’t compete with the Big 12 but is a number that at least keeps this group together.”
  2. This perfectly captures the WAC-10.
  3. Exactly, thank you.
  4. BTW, this is the Utah County (home of BYU) ESPN Radio affiliate. It's not only BYU coverage, but mostly. The author is a BYU guy.
  5. Still better than Northwestern and Maryland.
  6. BYU being the undefeated Pac 12 conference champs in 2021 was awesome.
  7. That's hilarious. There is some additional background here. When Utah joined the P12 back in the day, they put up a billboard just as you enter Salt Lake County and just north of Utah County (home of Provo), saying "Welcome to P12 Country" to rub it in BYU fans' faces. This CW billboard is located near that original P12 billboard lol.
  8. I hope Utah tries this until all the spots are filled in the B12 and then it's too late for them.
  9. A bunch of those morons are waiting for a Big Ten invite lol.
  10. It noticed that Bush was not as good of a passer as VY. Very astute observation.
  11. And yet here you are and posting
  12. It's actually a donut: BTW, a real t-shirt:
  13. That's quite the ratio
  14. Yup. I think most BYU fans would love to see Utah left behind and rot in obscurity, especially after we recently found out Utah stabbed BYU in the back when we were working on going independent. These two schools used to respectfully cooperate during the LaVell and McBride era, but once Urban Meyer took over and did douchey, petty stuff like not mentioning BYU by name ("the school down south") and putting BYU stickers in urinals, the tone forever changed. Kyle Whittingham went to the dark side and kept some of that petty stuff going, although not to the same degree as Meyer, who is up there in doucheyness. And now with the whole "we P12" elitist mentality these guys are insufferable. So we now say to Utah 🖕 and good riddance. Max Hall said it best:
  15. Wow that place is full of douchebags. Hope you get it figured out brother
  16. Correct
  17. Utah's whole identity is the P12 and that they have been a "peer" of Stanford, Cal, UCLA, UW, etc. When they got into the P12 you saw P12 stickers on cars all over the place. Driving from Utah County (where Provo is located) north to the neighboring Salt Lake County with Salt Lake City in it, there was a billboard placed just inside the county line stating "Welcome to P12 country". This is a very confusing and scary time for Utah, so be patient with them as they process the stages of grief.
  18. It's nice when you are not the only one that sees it.
  19. Kliavkoff with media deal in hand, P12 members waiting to find out (source Cougarboard):
  20. I'm on board with this. Let Utah rot and the only thing that intrigues me about Colorado is Deion, but who knows how long he will be there.
  21. Went to a game there in 2021. Looks and feels small, too. Felt like I was driving to the end of the earth to get there.
  22. Yes, I should have known better than to touch the third rail of BBQ here lol.
  23. Ur such a hater cherry picking the worst possible pics lol I've eaten excellent BBQ in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, Memphis, and more btw. Here are some better pics of Bam Bams:
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