Where do you want the Utes to go bowling?

by JazzyUte on Nov 29, 2009 3:49 PM MST in Football Comment 13 comments

San Diego or Las Vegas seem to be the two options. Vegas is closest, but San Diego is San Diego.

What do you say?

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Where do you want Utah to go bowling?

Maaco Bowl (Las Vegas)

139 votes

Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego)

118 votes

We don't deserve a bowl game

33 votes

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vegas

i have some fond memories of when the utes played in the vegas bowl

it’s easy travel, very appealing place to go to

by utahmanami on Nov 29, 2009 4:37 PM MST reply actions

Sigh...

there should be an option for who cares.

I don’t think I can make it to either game this year and does it really matter if we play the 5th or 6th place team in the PAC 10?

I voted for the Vegas Bowl, but I really don’t think it matters much. Poinsettia may be a better spot just for recruiting purposes anyway.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Nov 29, 2009 8:41 PM MST reply actions

I think it does make some difference.

Because I think I’d rather face say Cal than Oregon State. Mostly because we’ve played the Beavers the last two years.

by JazzyUte on Nov 29, 2009 8:59 PM MST up reply actions

I believe that option was – “We don’t deserve a bowl game”

obviously people care, the bowl streak is a major pride factor for me and this football team

by utahmanami on Nov 29, 2009 11:45 PM MST up reply actions

Obviously...

there’s a difference between me not caring what bowl we go to and thinking the Utes don’t deserve to go.

Sorry you’re not able to differentiate the two.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Nov 30, 2009 9:33 AM MST up reply actions

Where is the Sugar Bowl Option?

Even if it’s not possible that doesn’t mean I can’t want it.

I picked the Poinsettia Bowl. This might have been biased by my almost certain belief that is where we will go.

I really think that Whittingham needs a “gentlemen, this here is a football” speech to set the tone for the bowl season. If we focus on the fundamentals for the next few weeks our team should be ready to face anyone, especially an unranked PAC 10 team.

Let BYU lose the Vegas Bowl again. They might have deserved to win this week, but let’s see who deserves to be in the PAC 10 in the bowls.

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by utesfan100 on Nov 29, 2009 10:28 PM MST reply actions

You don't know that.

If Arizona beats USC this weekend, the Pac-10 might finish the season with six ranked teams. No one really knows what bowl they might be headed to in the Pac-10 with the exception of Oregon (Rose if they win, Holiday if they lose). Either game is likely to have a really good match up. The second through sixth place teams in the Pac-10 are basically equal. And how can you say that BYU “might have deserved to win this week”? Is there something that they did that makes them more deserving of winning than Utah? Didn’t the Utes play their butts off as well while trying to do everything in their power to pull out a victory? Isn’t that the nature of sports: to give everything you can to try to win? Don’t give me the “they might not have deserved to win” crap.

by pappyman on Nov 30, 2009 1:48 AM MST up reply actions

Utah played sloppy

Errors, penalties and dropped passes filled the first three quarters.

In the fourth Utah found some pride and started playing the kind of ball we should have been playing the entire game and came up short on a missed asignment in overtime.

BYU came out to play an entire game, Utah came out thinking I don’t know what. That is the basis of my statement. Play the game over and Utah wins 5/7.

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by utesfan100 on Nov 30, 2009 9:23 AM MST up reply actions

I want Vegas or Diego

And I want BYU as the opponent.

by MeanBobMean on Nov 30, 2009 5:44 AM MST reply actions

I voted for Vegas.

If for no other reason than we played in San Diego two years ago.

The only time I’ve felt Utah was better off staying home than going to a bowl game was 2006. That season sucked, and the biggest example I can think of that shows how there’s too many bowl games.

This year, however, we deserve to be a fringe ranked team and playing a decent opponent.

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by BoylenOver on Nov 30, 2009 6:17 AM MST reply actions

Maybe we didn't deserve that bowl game.

But if we didn’t deserve one in 2006 (after going 7-4) then we didn’t deserve one in 2005 either (going 6-5) and the 2005 team crushed a heavily favored GA Tech team. This year we certainly deserve one, and I think this is the year Vegas puts aside TKM’s pettiness and selects the Utes.

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by displacedute on Nov 30, 2009 4:59 PM MST up reply actions

I want to know who's saying we don't deserve a bowl.

We won freaking 9 games!

by JazzyUte on Dec 1, 2009 2:53 AM MST up reply actions

Um. Whatever Pac-10 Team We're Going To Get Is Going To Be Good

I don’t know if y’all have noticed, but the Pac-10 is stacked this year. Look at our two potential opponents — Oregon St. and Arizona. The Beavers are playing for a BCS birth this week and the Wildcats were doing the same thing less than two weeks ago. Neither of those teams are going to be middling opponents and will require the Utes’ A-game to be defeated. I’m excited/terrified about facing either one of them.

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by kadoogan on Nov 30, 2009 10:47 PM MST reply actions