Pass on BYU for the B12

MLawrence

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I call shenanigans. Kids nowadays don't write hand written letters with the Facebook and the youtube and the stumble machine to distract them. Also, when did smart phones get a hand written letter app?
 

MNCyGuy

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I really think we should be doing all we can to get WVU and BYU in the same conference just for the comedy of it.
 

CTTB78

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Utah is an interesting place. Their historical isolation is changing as they bring industry in, but the culture remains very, very different for those not raised there.
 

iahawkhunter

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Utah is an interesting place. Their historical isolation is changing as they bring industry in, but the culture remains very, very different for those not raised there.

Agreed. They're slowing coming around culturally, though. I heard the Olympics gave a big kick-start in that regard. The drinking laws are becoming more "normal", too. I believe a couple years ago they made bars legal (previously what we would call a bar was actually a private club in Utah) and relaxed some other regulations regarding the need to purchase food with alcohol. I thought I heard that within the last couple years homebrewing is now legal, which I find hilarious since it seemed to be a very common hobby for many people when I was there on internship in 08 and 09.

Regarding BYU, if they continue to require special treatment as a condition of their membership, I say keep them out. I support their deciding what's important to them, but I don't have to support their imposing their priorities on the rest of the conference.
 

MissouriCyclone

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Agreed. They're slowing coming around culturally, though. I heard the Olympics gave a big kick-start in that regard. The drinking laws are becoming more "normal", too. I believe a couple years ago they made bars legal (previously what we would call a bar was actually a private club in Utah) and relaxed some other regulations regarding the need to purchase food with alcohol. I thought I heard that within the last couple years homebrewing is now legal, which I find hilarious since it seemed to be a very common hobby for many people when I was there on internship in 08 and 09.

Regarding BYU, if they continue to require special treatment as a condition of their membership, I say keep them out. I support their deciding what's important to them, but I don't have to support their imposing their priorities on the rest of the conference.

Why would their priorities affect us? I think it would be good for them to come in the conference. They have a huge fan base and are decent at athletics. Only thing that would suck is them traveling to WVU and vice versa.
 

iahawkhunter

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Why would their priorities affect us? I think it would be good for them to come in the conference. They have a huge fan base and are decent at athletics. Only thing that would suck is them traveling to WVU and vice versa.

If their priorities don't affect us, that's fine. I was thinking of their requirement to not compete on Sundays and the possible scheduling headaches that can cause.
 

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tim_redd

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Agreed. They're slowing coming around culturally, though. I heard the Olympics gave a big kick-start in that regard. The drinking laws are becoming more "normal", too. I believe a couple years ago they made bars legal (previously what we would call a bar was actually a private club in Utah) and relaxed some other regulations regarding the need to purchase food with alcohol. I thought I heard that within the last couple years homebrewing is now legal, which I find hilarious since it seemed to be a very common hobby for many people when I was there on internship in 08 and 09.

Regarding BYU, if they continue to require special treatment as a condition of their membership, I say keep them out. I support their deciding what's important to them, but I don't have to support their imposing their priorities on the rest of the conference.


I watch the tv show Drinking Made Easy on HDnet. There where lots of strange rules for the bars and stuff on the one they filmed in Utah. I believe overpours on drinks and stuff is a strict no-no.