I'll always follow BYU but they picked a bad time to have their the worst football season in over 40 years. Setting aside BYU's Indy/non-P5 status, this is a bumper crop year for LDS talent and it looks as if we may lose out on virtually all of the highly rated recruits that we felt reasonably confident about a year or so ago. So what was once shaping up to be one of the best BYU recruting classes ever now looks to be worse than an average Bronco recruting class. Not a good development for an unproven coaching staff who's greatest strength was advertised as recruiting ability.

Then you add the ever growing divide between P5/non-P5 with no P5 invite for BYU for the foreseeable future. This is punctuated not only by BYU's record against Utah since 2010 but also a sense that this rivalry will increasingly tilt in Utah's favor as long as BYU is locked out of a power conference.

Then you throw in some other trends in college football that have destroyed much of the enjoyment of the game. Examples include conference realignments/expansions that have killed many traditional rivarlies and created some very strange conference bedfellows and ever increasing monopolization by the P5 conferences, particularly with respect to money, media exposure, and post-season opportunities.

On top of all of that, I'm sick of Alabama and the SEC.

On the BYU basketball front, other than playing Gonzaga twice a year, I've never been very excited about the WCC, especially given that our ceiling seems to increasingly be NIT most years. And the Mika departure has really dampened my enthusiasm for this year's team because I can't help thinking about what could have been.

I also miss the days when power conference schools (e.g., Notre Dame, UCLA, etc.) came to the Marriott Center.

My interest in pro sports has steadily diminished since the late 1990's such that I no longer really follow a franchise in any sport. And I'm sick of the Patriots.

In fact, about the only sport where I have an increased interest as compared to 20 years ago is international soccer. Too bad the US failed to make the World Cup for the first time since 1986.

Just seems like there's not much to be excited about these days (that being said, I started following sports in the 1980s and that decade totally spoiled me as a sports fan).