The name of the blog is Truthstick, and Cougar fans, I'm about to hit you over the head with the Truth Stick (Again. And again, and again, and again, and again...).
First. You are NOT, Notre Dame! The whole country does NOT care about you. I don't know the percentage of Catholics in this country. I'm too lazy to look it up on the net, but I'm willing to bet, just from my life experience, that's it a LOT. The last poll I saw showed that 1% of this country was Jewish. 1% was Mormon. Who has more clout in the media, and politics?
Hell, that same poll showed that as much as 15 to 17% of the population of this country is agnostic or ATHEIST! If you accept the common knowledge about the general population, 10% of the population is Gay! There are ten times more Gays than Mormons in this country!
Notre Dame has a TV contract with a BROADCAST NETWORK to televise ALL it's football games. Now, admittedly, the networks are not as powerful as they once were with satellite and cable TV. But it's still a pretty good indicator of how popular you are. Ask Conan O'Brian if he'd rather be on TBS or his old gig on NBC.
When CBS, NBC, ABC or even, FOX offers the Cougars a weekly gig on THEIR network to show your game every Saturday? You can think you're as popular as Notre Dame.
This is why you play them six times in eight years, and four of those games are in Indiana, and TWO are in Provo.
You are not now, nor will you EVER be, Notre Dame. Or as popular and well known as, Notre Dame. Get over it.
You are still seen in the rest of the country as a crazy cult religion. You're not Notre Dame. You're, Bob Jones "University". You're, Oral Roberts "University". Not seen as a University at all, by most folks.
Can you name three things we have at The University of Utah that you will never have at tsds? Two BCS Bowl Trophies and a Nobel Prize Winner.
And THAT is the reason you're not being invited to join a BCS Conference. It has nothing to do with football. And everything to do with academics. Stanford and Cal won't be in a conference with the likes of YOU! Hell, if Ann Richards hadn't been Governor of Texas when the old Southwest Conference dissolved and became the Big 12, Baylor (OK, tsds fans, follow me here, because I'm sure you DON'T know this. Baylor is a BAPTIST "University". REAL, fundamentalist. Didn't allow dancing on the campus until about 1995. Creepy religious, just like you guys) wouldn't have been included. She had enough clout as Governor of a big state like, Texas (and we all know about their politicians. And she was a DEMOCRAT for crying out loud!) to have kept the Big 12 from happening if they didn't take her almamater. Baylor.
Next point that needs mentioning. Bronco Mendenhall is delusional. I realize he HAS to be. He works for, "The Church" so he's got to toe the line. But you do NOT start each season in pursuit of a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP instead of a Conference Championship. You have not raised yourself to that level (see: You're not Notre Dame, above).
You start every season hoping that OUR conference or some other one, can't field enough teams with six wins to fill all our contracted slots! And you can sneak into one. Got a contract with the, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco, or the, Armed Forces Bell Helicopter Bowl in Fort Worth? Good for you. Now, go out and get six wins against New Mexico State and the other WAC schools you're going to play and see how many tickets you sell. If that's as good as you can hope for (And it is. You will NEVER see a BCS Bowl, no matter how many games you win against Army, Navy and who ever else you will play every year) you are not even in our world. We should quit playing you every year, because beating you won't help us, and losing to you would hurt our National Championship chances. It's like playing, Weber State.
Now, lets address the, "You're going to have a losing season for the next ten years" and, "Enjoy being bottom feeders" smack talk you folks from tsds keep throwing out. Where the hell does THAT come from? We beat YOU on a regular basis, and you think you're all that and a bag of chips. So WTF? YOU are going to compete for a National Championship, even though we beat you, but we are going to finish last in our conference?
Tsds logic. For sure.
Arizona and Arizona State took YEARS for either of them to get to the Rose Bowl when they joined the PAC in the 70's. But this is NOT the 70's.
Neither of them had any real football history going for them before they left the WAC and joined the PAC. Just a big population and lots of TVs.
We DO have a history. We have two BCS Bowl wins. We have eight Bowl wins in a row. We have beaten teams from the SEC, Big East, PAC, ACC in BOWL GAMES. We have some pretty good regular season wins in places like Michigan and Minnesota (Big 10), and Louisville (Big East).
That being said, how do you think we're not going to be competitive in this new league? Seriously, justify that claim that we won't win games! The Sporting News picks us to win the PAC 12 South this year. You think you know better than, The Sporting News?
THEY think we will win the South, lose to Stanford in the League Championship Game and end up in the Holiday Bowl. I could live with that. You guys? MIGHT end up playing a C-USA team in Fort Worth. Good for you. With a pat on the head.
Cougar fans, you didn't get screwed because of your football. You got screwed because of your academics and your religious bullshit. You spent $28 Million to defeat, Prop 8 in California, and can't figure out why the California, "Universities" don't want you? Really?
Universities are where Liberals keep their smart people. Republican, Conservative, Religious nut balls have, "Think Tanks". And you're pretty much a, "Mormon Think Tank". You're not really a University. And no one outside of Utah and parts of Southern Idaho and Western Wyoming gives a shit about you.
Good luck as an independent. But my money would be on you regretting this decision within a few years and crawling back to the Mountain West, who probably won't have you. Or the WAC, who might need you to stay alive because you would at least bring the 32nd biggest TV market to their channel.
Oh, and don't schedule San Diego State for the next few years. Rocky Long will kick your ass!
So, Cougar fans. We are NOT going to have losing seasons. We are going to Bowl Games you can only dream of. We get ten times the money you're getting for TV games, and no one outside of the Mountain Time Zone gives a flying fuck at a rolling donut about your football team.
So quit kicking our ass. You got nothing to stand on. Just shut up, and accept your role as no longer being the most popular football team in the state of Utah.
We are now, and always have been, out of your league. Live with it.
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