PAC THIS, BYU Fans!

ESPN is announcing an agreement between the PAC 12 and the Big 10 and it's 12 teams, to play an interlocking schedule in all sports, including football.  Meaning that by the time 2017 rolls around, and everyone has played all the games they are contracted for already, the Utes will have 9 PAC 12 games, one Big 10 game and only two open dates, already taken care of, every year.

You guys down at tsds have any games scheduled after October 27th next year yet?  Didn't think so.

To paraphrase your favorite, "pundit", Sarah Palin, "How's that, "independenty" thing working out for you?"

You know who I feel bad for in this whole thing?  Utah State.  Let's face it.  They can BEAT a team from a BCS conference.  As can tsds in a good year (but GOOD years are going to be fewer and farther between for tsds than USU if current trends continue) and it doesn't look good for the BCS team, when they do.  So, why would we play them?  And why would ever play them in Logan?  Ain't going to happen.

We will put Southern Utah on the schedule.  Give them a pay day.  And a beating.  And some MWC school we can beat (meaning NOT Air Force.  EVER!), and call it good for our schedule EVERY YEAR!

Our schedule is done for time and all eternity.  Piece of cake.

And the cities we get to visit!  Minneapolis/St. Paul is SO pretty.  Found one of the best steak houses ever in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Playing Northwestern in Chicago?  AWESOME! 

And my favorite town we will get to go back to?  Ann Arbor, Michigan.

When we were there a few years ago to see the Utes, it was probably short of the Sugar Bowl that same season, the best road trip we have ever made.

Even the drunk, students were gracious, and glad we were there.  One young lady, obviously, "in the cups" as it were, before the game, about bit the head of a security guard that tried to close the door on Deb's white cane as we were trying to get in.

"YOU CAN'T CLOSE THE DOOR ON A BLIND WOMAN, YOU SON OF A BITCH!  THEY CAME CLEAR FROM UTAH!  YOU HAVE TO LET THEM IN!"  And they did!

And when the game was over, there were two guys, obviously older than me, in Yellow, sorry,MAIZE, shirts, standing at the bottom of the steps where all the Ute fans had to come out, shaking every one's hand and saying, "Thanks for coming.  Congratulations on your victory.  Please don't let anyone you know go to Ohio State."  It was quite an experience.

One day, while walking downtown in my Utah shirt, I got in a conversation with a Jewish guy (the hat is how I knew.  No, I'm not even going to TRY to spell it) and he was telling me how much he and his son, who was with him, liked it there. 

He said that Ann Arbor had 109,000 people, and 60 book stores.  Wow.  I believe it.  Everyone there was so nice, and so smart.

When I worked for the FBI in the 2002 Olympics, there was a group from the anti-terrorist group from Detroit.  Hard core right wingers.  They referred to the town as, "The Peoples Republic Of Ann Arbor".  Right on!

We found Polish restaurants, Moroccan restaurants.  AND a, JB's Big Boy!  Ran the gauntlet!

I love Logan.  I had some good friends from high school who went to USU and when there was as good concert up there, Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels, we would go up there and get a room at The Bah Motel and party down in Logan.

But all things considered?  I'll take Ann Arbor, Lincoln, Minneapolis, Chicago and just about anywhere back there over either Logan, or Provo.

Hell, comparing, Provo and it's TWO bookstores ( Deseret Book, and Seagull Book for the, "Ghetto Mormons" who only buy discount) and it's, TGI Fridays (who has to HIDE their bar!) to Ann Arbor is like comparing my Camaro to a minivan.  Yes, they are both cars, such as it is.  But they don't have ANYTHING in common.

That's now how the Utah football program looks at the football at tsds.

You get a game after Halloween yet?  I've been working on this for an hour!  Thought so.