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OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:52 am

CowboyNV wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:55 am

Wyovanian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:03 am F--k byu* and f--k Tom Burman if he does this. I, for one, will greatly reduce my annual donations if we dignify that institution.

+1000 This needs to be not only the attitude of all Wyoming fans, it needs to be the attitude adopted by all of the members of the MWC. BYU did everything in their power to destroy this conference, yet there are teams that continue to support their efforts at independence. They have become irrelevant and need to go the way of the dinosaur. They wanted nothing to do with the MWC, so why the hell give them games now? I will never support having them on the schedule period.

I will not be renewing my season tickets for any season in which we play BYU. I too cannot support condoning BYU's behavior in backstabbing its long time conference members (and trying to concoct a plan to dismantle the MWC and boost the WAC on their way out). This is horrible.

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:56 pm The response here isn't about some higher loyalty to the Mountain West. What has the MWC ever done for Wyoming? Frankly Wyoming needs the MWC way more than the other way around. Any MWC team is in a better spot than BYU anyways, frankly we should be laughing, rather than cursing, at BYU.

Let's face it: Wyoming fans have an inferiority complex. Can't blame anyone for feeling that way after the past decade but it's true. If fans thought we could beat them then we'd be begging for this game to happen to shove everything BYU did back in their faces. Forget the fact that we would be renewing a decades-old rivalry against a school people loved to hate even before conference realignment drama, surely to be one of the most attended home games in whatever year it happens. Simple as this: if we're pissed off at BYU antics, lets mop the turf with them and make a statement for the MWC. A certain school in Idaho that is always better than UW in FB and BB has played them the past six seasons and won four. The crowd of fans crying out against this says to me we don't think that's possible.

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:56 pm The response here isn't about some higher loyalty to the Mountain West. What has the MWC ever done for Wyoming? Frankly Wyoming needs the MWC way more than the other way around. Any MWC team is in a better spot than BYU anyways, frankly we should be laughing, rather than cursing, at BYU.

Let's face it: Wyoming fans have an inferiority complex. Can't blame anyone for feeling that way after the past decade but it's true. If fans thought we could beat them then we'd be begging for this game to happen to shove everything BYU did back in their faces. Forget the fact that we would be renewing a decades-old rivalry against a school people loved to hate even before conference realignment drama, surely to be one of the most attended home games in whatever year it happens. Simple as this: if we're pissed off at BYU antics, lets mop the turf with them and make a statement for the MWC. A certain school in Idaho that is always better than UW in FB and BB has played them the past six seasons and won four. The crowd of fans crying out against this says to me we don't think that's possible.

OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:26 pm

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:56 pm The response here isn't about some higher loyalty to the Mountain West. What has the MWC ever done for Wyoming? Frankly Wyoming needs the MWC way more than the other way around. Any MWC team is in a better spot than BYU anyways, frankly we should be laughing, rather than cursing, at BYU.

Let's face it: Wyoming fans have an inferiority complex. Can't blame anyone for feeling that way after the past decade but it's true. If fans thought we could beat them then we'd be begging for this game to happen to shove everything BYU did back in their faces. Forget the fact that we would be renewing a decades-old rivalry against a school people loved to hate even before conference realignment drama, surely to be one of the most attended home games in whatever year it happens. Simple as this: if we're pissed off at BYU antics, lets mop the turf with them and make a statement for the MWC. A certain school in Idaho that is always better than UW in FB and BB has played them the past six seasons and won four. The crowd of fans crying out against this says to me we don't think that's possible.

More dead wrong BS!

Scheduling byu is caving to BYU to make their independence even possible. If the MWC teams could grow a spine and band together and not schedule BYU, BYU football would die on the vine. After the crap BYU pulled which could have forced Wyoming to an inferior conference, they completely deserve it.

Burman has a chance to make a statement here. I truly hope that statement is that he is a man that sticks to his word.

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:43 pm I hate to say it, but BYU doesn't need to play us to be independent. Yes they play a lot of the Mountain West each year, but something tells me they have enough history/pedigree/money to get by just fine without playing the seventh best conference in college football. They have unlimited flexibility and have shown willingness to travel wherever. For better or worse they will have no problem existing as an independent program.

The point is that other MWC schools aren't refusing to play them. Instead of holding a grudge Burman and Bohl could line UW up 11 on 11 and punish them that way. But instead we'll take our ball and go home to play UC Davis, Gardner-Webb, Wofford, Idaho and Weber State instead.

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:43 pm
I hate to say it, but BYU doesn't need to play us to be independent. Yes they play a lot of the Mountain West each year, but something tells me they have enough history/pedigree/money to get by just fine without playing the seventh best conference in college football. They have unlimited flexibility and have shown willingness to travel wherever. For better or worse they will have no problem existing as an independent program.

castlerocker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:07 pm

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:43 pm
I hate to say it, but BYU doesn't need to play us to be independent. Yes they play a lot of the Mountain West each year, but something tells me they have enough history/pedigree/money to get by just fine without playing the seventh best conference in college football. They have unlimited flexibility and have shown willingness to travel wherever. For better or worse they will have no problem existing as an independent program.

BYU IS having problems as an independent and they know Wyoming is on the upswing so they see it as an opportunity for themselves. Even if we were winning every game we played I wouldn't want them to be a part of it. I'm just a bit tired of the arrogant bastards and their self serving, devious ways.

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:43 pm

OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:26 pm

Poke in New England wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:56 pm The response here isn't about some higher loyalty to the Mountain West. What has the MWC ever done for Wyoming? Frankly Wyoming needs the MWC way more than the other way around. Any MWC team is in a better spot than BYU anyways, frankly we should be laughing, rather than cursing, at BYU.

Let's face it: Wyoming fans have an inferiority complex. Can't blame anyone for feeling that way after the past decade but it's true. If fans thought we could beat them then we'd be begging for this game to happen to shove everything BYU did back in their faces. Forget the fact that we would be renewing a decades-old rivalry against a school people loved to hate even before conference realignment drama, surely to be one of the most attended home games in whatever year it happens. Simple as this: if we're pissed off at BYU antics, lets mop the turf with them and make a statement for the MWC. A certain school in Idaho that is always better than UW in FB and BB has played them the past six seasons and won four. The crowd of fans crying out against this says to me we don't think that's possible.

More dead wrong BS!

Scheduling byu is caving to BYU to make their independence even possible. If the MWC teams could grow a spine and band together and not schedule BYU, BYU football would die on the vine. After the crap BYU pulled which could have forced Wyoming to an inferior conference, they completely deserve it.

Burman has a chance to make a statement here. I truly hope that statement is that he is a man that sticks to his word.

I hate to say it, but BYU doesn't need to play us to be independent. Yes they play a lot of the Mountain West each year, but something tells me they have enough history/pedigree/money to get by just fine without playing the seventh best conference in college football. They have unlimited flexibility and have shown willingness to travel wherever. For better or worse they will have no problem existing as an independent program.

The point is that other MWC schools aren't refusing to play them. Instead of holding a grudge Burman and Bohl could line UW up 11 on 11 and punish them that way. But instead we'll take our ball and go home to play UC Davis, Gardner-Webb, Wofford, Idaho and Weber State instead.