Band of Brothers

[LA Ute]

Hello, everyone, I am aware that a fairly animated post I made over at the Ute board got some attention here. I tried to comment then, but it has been so long since I posted here, I needed several days to get back in.

I will be coming here more, by the way, because the modern-day Ute board is not what it used to be. More sound and fury than interesting discussion, I'm afraid. As for the other Cougard board, well, I think the average age is about 22 and the discussion level reflects that.

(Harrumph, he said.)

Anyway, I actually think the "Band of Brothers" notion is good motivational stuff. In all honesty, I do have ahard time with Bronco, but I am getting used to him. My guess is that he is a young (harrumph again) new head coach with the job of his dreams, and he has been given explicit instructions from 47 East South Temple in Salt Lake as to the kind of football program BYU must have. He's just doing the job he agreed to do.

Nevertheless . . . almost everything that comes out of his mouth seems so stilted. He sounds like he runs his statements through Correlation before releasing them. And he does make some unfortunate statements -- not unlike Barack Obama, who is also a "greenie" at being in the public eye. And, because pomposity and self-righteousness are hot buttons for me with all Church members, not just BYU athletes, he just bugs me when he indulges his tendency to be that way. I am not sure he really is that way, or if he just needs a little seasoning.

Of course, it is not the BYU football coach's job to be palatable to Ute fans. But he does a good job of giving Ute fans someone to dislike.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.