"I know you are, but what am I?"

They try to set themselves apart from the stereotypical Utahn, but go too far

Texas Hammer

8/21/19 10:46pm

This is the biggest factor IMO and what I see with those around me.

Flyski

8/21/19 10:48pm

as someone who is not from utah and not a fan of either team

scodux

8/22/19 8:21am

"Not a fan of either team" Then why are you here?

SportsRoad

8/22/19 2:47pm

Because it is a public open forum

scodux

8/22/19 3:40pm

You're getting called out even after agreeing.

LiquidUte

8/22/19 4:41pm

Getting called out? It wasn't a bad question.

Belboz

8/22/19 6:30pm

The "why are you here?" response from a CB'er?

LiquidUte

8/22/19 9:32pm

No. You got it right. 😂

Natedog916

8/22/19 10:22pm

this is at least the 3rd time this has happened, its insane.

scodux

8/23/19 9:23am

Just curious...who is your team?

Coug98

8/23/19 6:12pm

Scoducks is a popular hashtag for Oregon. ("Lets go ducks")

LiquidUte

8/26/19 9:31am

You are a Yewt fan...the question is relevant for you.

Coug98

8/23/19 6:14pm

I agree, it was one of my first observations when I moved to Utah. People

DoseOfReality

8/22/19 8:40am

My Ute younger brother got offended when I pointed this out.

DraperCoug22

8/21/19 10:54pm

Hey now. It’s not like they mock sacred ordinances or anything.

Ojiisan

8/22/19 12:12am

So they’re thin-skinned too.

Santos L. Halper

8/22/19 6:17am

How did he feel about the their team passing around a sacrament trey in the hot

Pretorian

8/22/19 6:56am

Now the underbelly has an underbelly? Gross.

stoils

8/22/19 9:32am

New neighbors.Ute flag.We went over to introduce ourselves. Porno on their TV.

Dr MoBYU

8/21/19 11:17pm

My Ute neighbors are worse

SL12

8/21/19 11:50pm

Why would you care about their prayers and family scripture study?

Pretorian

8/22/19 6:58am

It’s important to me that they do

SL12

8/22/19 7:38am

RE: It’s important to me that they do

Pretorian

8/22/19 8:04am

Ok, yeah sure.

LiquidUte

8/22/19 1:25am

Are you calling him a liar?

LDTemplar

8/22/19 10:59am

Well, the idea that someone was watching porn on TV tipped me off.

LiquidUte

8/22/19 12:16pm

Where else would it be watched? maybe on the computer

LDTemplar

8/22/19 1:23pm

Yes on the computer. Isn't that where everyone watches it? It ain't 1984 anymore

LiquidUte

8/22/19 1:45pm

Phone

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 1:50pm

RE: Phone

LiquidUte

8/22/19 1:55pm

Just because that is the way YOU watch porn

LDTemplar

8/22/19 4:05pm

Oh, so you do watch it on TV. That's old school but I can respect it.

LiquidUte

8/23/19 11:30am

No I dont watch it at all, have fun watching it on your phone.

LDTemplar

8/23/19 4:23pm

Why do I feel like in an alternate universe I would get along with Ute fans?

carcoug

8/22/19 1:40am

So they were watching Game of Thrones or project runway?

Broda

8/22/19 8:23am

Are you sure they weren't just watching video of their last family reunion?

CougarThug

8/22/19 9:05am

Something, something, though shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor..

TheRealU

8/22/19 9:50am

what makes you say it's false?

Cougarclaw

8/22/19 10:05am

Even if it is true, it is more than annoying to have someone talk about it here

cob

8/22/19 10:47am

I think you are the one bearing false witness

LDTemplar

8/22/19 11:02am

So they watch Game of Thrones. Big deal...

ochobeeguy

8/22/19 12:13pm

My neighbor of 21 years who served as my Bishop twice just left his wife of

reagan21

8/22/19 3:00pm

Dubious... in fact I don’t believe you.

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 3:11pm

Should I post his wife's heartbreaking Facebook post the day he left her?

reagan21

8/22/19 3:16pm

Sure

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 3:26pm

Yes please, and also whatever evidence you have that he was all the things...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 3:29pm

Are you sure it wasn't game of thrones??

Cosmo4life

8/23/19 11:23am

Why do some in the byu fan base judge, stereotype, and hate facial hair so much?

LiquidUte

8/22/19 12:53am

Not a stereotype: Here’s a true story...

Dr MoBYU

8/22/19 4:46am

Lolzzz.

DocPimp

8/22/19 12:44pm

So weird. I have somehow moved into the one neighborhood with

Betruewhiteandblue

8/22/19 4:00pm

It's not all facial hair. Full beard >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Goatee.

tony

8/22/19 6:22am

I don’t understand why stereotypes are bad?

Pretorian

8/22/19 7:06am

Really?

jellyfish

8/22/19 2:20pm

No... stereotypes are NOT always bad, yet they are still stereotypes

Pretorian

8/22/19 4:38pm

Uhhh.....wowzers.

kos

8/22/19 7:29pm

I like Yamaha and Bose.

Dr MoBYU

8/22/19 8:05pm

Hang on a second while I run to the Ute board and ask them why they are bigoted,

whirl

8/22/19 7:16am

Well, when West Valley City has speed bumps to keep Utes in, you stay low class

YSeattle

8/22/19 1:10am

Love the avi. Anjuna! That is all.

LiquidUte

8/27/19 4:13pm

See you at ABGT 350 in Prague?

YSeattle

8/28/19 12:55am

Are you really going? I saw A&B in Park City. Dusky and Mat Zo in PDX.

LiquidUte

8/28/19 9:38am

Yup, was also just at the Gorge Weekender. Going to AnjunaDeep open air in

YSeattle

8/28/19 11:51pm

Well met. I'm Jealous! I went to all the raves in SLC back in '01. Saw Tiesto

LiquidUte

8/29/19 2:18am

Proud goatee wearing BYU fan...🙋🏻‍♂️

Pride

8/22/19 1:42am

RE: Proud goatee wearing BYU fan...🙋🏻‍♂️

LiquidUte

8/22/19 1:50am

RE: Proud goatee wearing BYU fan...🙋🏻‍♂️

idcougarfan

8/22/19 5:05am

Frosted tips, too?

spinner

8/22/19 7:03am

I have a full beard too! *knife, knife, knife*

YSeattle

8/22/19 9:28am

BYU alumni met my new wife with a goatee wanted me in a beard for wedding pics

Upanddown

8/22/19 9:55am

ME 2 every now and then

BYU Grounds

8/22/19 12:30pm

Those dirtbags sit next to you in elders quorum. The overlapping set between the

ag4cougs

8/22/19 5:28am

I'll bet the ones sitting next to you in EQ are not the ones we're talking about

Archaeovagrant

8/22/19 12:25pm

Classless smack already? The game hasn't even started. Don't peak too early!!

bja13

8/22/19 6:01am

Paranoia. The what-should-be flagship university for Utah is second to BYU in

mrphotogenic

8/22/19 6:14am

It’s simple. It’s a hate based group, generally speaking.

Desert Rat

8/22/19 6:19am

^^^^^ This.

BleedCougarBlue2

8/22/19 10:29am

They're generally pretty tame outside Utah

ColoSpgs

8/22/19 7:04am

My Ute friends always claim BYU dont follow Christs teaching about judging other

Upanddown

8/22/19 7:06am

What is wrong with you

stoils

8/22/19 9:41am

Yes but it was two hours to Tulum back and forth she slept on my lap

Upanddown

8/22/19 10:57am

Good grief dude, you paid way to much for that Ute "education"...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 9:47am

No way to much for my BYU education you player paid for my education at the U

Upanddown

8/22/19 11:03am

What?

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:04am

Hey, no judging him for drinking while he's on vacation

stoils

8/22/19 11:13am

Sadly I don't think that he is, I think that is a standard post from him...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:16am

You don't have a BYU education

STL

8/23/19 6:44pm

This guy embodies the insane lunacy of his type of yewt fan

shammy

8/22/19 10:15am

The Dallas Cowboys are familiar with the look

UberDeek

8/22/19 7:22am

This thread is embarrassing. Dudes, take the high road and quit casting stones

cob

8/22/19 7:26am

This. Despite what the Utes do we look as bad by name calling.

Cougstreak

8/22/19 11:07am

Are you sure we get goated?

stoils

8/22/19 11:16am

Ha. Thx. Autocorrect. I meant “goateed”...

Cougstreak

8/22/19 11:51am

"goated"? What does that even mean?

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:17am

Thank you

TriForce

8/22/19 11:09am

Utah fans are like 40% upper class good people, 20% lower/middle class

QBarrister

8/22/19 7:40am

Every state has the college football team that gets adopted by the local fans

dYrtbYkerYder

8/22/19 7:53am

Redundant question if you ask me...

TrueBlue67

8/22/19 8:28am

You obviously just have a problem with people in general

Medute

8/22/19 8:30am

Medute, I think there is some truth to what you say, however

Jizosh

8/22/19 8:55am

I think they are mad because Greg Hughes forced Utah to continue to play BYU

Upanddown

8/22/19 9:21am

Re: "their are more well educated kids at the U of U then BYU"

stoils

8/22/19 9:47am

He's becoming perhaps the most entertaining poster on CB...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 9:52am

Yes, the more I get, the more I understand

stoils

8/22/19 9:58am

He wants you to believe that, just like he wants you to believe he has a wife.

shammy

8/22/19 10:18am

I'm dubious of both claims...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 10:57am

The story is starting to check out though, after a week of marriage

stoils

8/22/19 2:24pm

True...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 3:23pm

He can’t even spell half the words in his post correctly. Definitely a Ute.

Natedog916

8/22/19 4:03pm

Did he proofread his academic work like he proof reads his posts?

Tweege

8/22/19 5:34pm

Apparently his family are big money bag donors...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 5:36pm

The medical aspect is the only area in which U is academically superior. Period.

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 9:50am

How do you know ever attended classes at the U? Hung out with students from the

Upanddown

8/22/19 10:19am

You never make sense. You need to use all of the words.

ochobeeguy

8/22/19 12:32pm

Haha. I spend the first 23 years of my living in SLC amongst Utes.

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 12:37pm

Ummmm yeah....

Tweege

8/22/19 5:36pm

This is the first Geology program smack talk I have ever seen.

ochobeeguy

8/22/19 12:31pm

My feelings exactly.

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 9:44am

That's fair. I think some of it is pretty harmless but there is a line

Medute

8/22/19 10:04am

Then don't try to "police" CB and what's posted here...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:21am

I like to selectively call out people from both sides whenever it suits me 🙂

Medute

8/22/19 11:44am

Well I like doing that also...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 12:01pm

That is a question about how you deal with hard obnoxious people in general.

lilpenny

8/22/19 10:33am

This^^^

hereforlaughs

8/22/19 9:09am

MedUte, I think what you meant to say, instead of "You guys," was:

Boomcannon

8/22/19 11:08am

I still like my way better

Medute

8/22/19 11:14am

pot meet kettle...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:23am

I dont need negative stereotypes of another fanbase to justify my fandom.

Preppy

8/22/19 12:16pm

Maybe you don't need to justify it, but you sure enjoy it

Medute

8/22/19 12:47pm

Hey, just give us win. You guys have FB scoreboard smack at your disposal.

Preppy

8/22/19 1:13pm

That's a broad brush. Both teams have losers.

TRUE_BLUE_COUGY

8/22/19 8:40am

But our losers are better than their losers.

CougarThug

8/22/19 9:10am

Exactly!

TRUE_BLUE_COUGY

8/22/19 9:46am

Because their other option is to be "no class".

CougarThug

8/22/19 9:03am

Why are BYU fans such insufferable, self-righteous B-holes?

CrimsonCardinal

8/22/19 9:52am

Haha yet you choose to come here and interact with us. Beautiful irony.

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 9:57am

takes one to know one

stoils

8/22/19 9:59am

"I know you are, but what am I?"

CrimsonCardinal

8/22/19 10:03am

He’ll never acknowledge the craziness of those facts. It’s hopeless.

shammy

8/22/19 10:19am

😂😂😂😂 he said B-holes!!!!!

Pretorian

8/22/19 10:06am

I'm pretty sure A-holes would get me banned

CrimsonCardinal

8/22/19 10:28am

One can only hope...the ban of a Yewt is like music to my ears!

Coug98

8/22/19 10:49am

Indeed

Pretorian

8/22/19 4:59pm

Ute riff raff

Richbyu

8/22/19 9:54am

IMO, the worst ute fans are the ones who never even went to the school

Bleeding Blue

8/22/19 10:08am

It is actually a small but very vocal minority of Yewt fans.....

BYU Grounds

8/22/19 10:42am

Very small minority but they are VOCAL.

Cougstreak

8/22/19 11:17am

So you make generalizations...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:26am

You don’t get it do you? That was the point.

Cougstreak

8/22/19 11:34am

I don't believe you but in case you are telling the truth it was poorly executed

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 11:36am

It is a small, nasty minority who are waging a culture war...

Oatmeal

8/22/19 11:32am

Saddest part is Ute fans that must keep making excuses for them

Croweater

8/22/19 12:36pm

Pot, meet kettle

TheRealU

8/22/19 12:40pm

They are "normal." It's the bubble that is peculiar.

LiquidUte

8/22/19 12:48pm

They're not.

RedSox

8/22/19 12:53pm

Well that doesn't sound like nearly as much fun...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 1:08pm

You basically just described every large fanbase in America...

DocPimp

8/22/19 1:09pm

I’ve lived all over too and never seen someone hate on BYU

stoils

8/22/19 1:38pm

I never said they look down on BYU...

DocPimp

8/22/19 1:44pm

I really think the difference is...

DocPimp

8/22/19 1:45pm

What does that even mean?

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 1:53pm

I wouldn't put too much stock in his words

stoils

8/22/19 2:09pm

Yup definitely don’t mind what you call ‘dirt bags’

DocPimp

8/22/19 8:05pm

I don’t need to hang with worldly people to keep my self esteem up

stoils

8/23/19 11:22am

"Worldly People"

LiquidUte

8/23/19 11:50am

People that brag about getting invited to parties are losers.

Natedog916

8/23/19 11:38am

Not homogenous in terms of race...

DocPimp

8/22/19 2:14pm

That's funny you define diversity as drug/alcohol users and fornicators

stoils

8/22/19 2:19pm

Not saying those are good things (clearly drugs are bad)

DocPimp

8/22/19 2:25pm

So if that is what’s most common in America then how is it diverse?

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 3:26pm

More diverse in terms of Utah vs BYU fanbases.

DocPimp

8/22/19 3:31pm

Once again a quick contradiction by our yewt doctor friend of Epstein

stoils

8/23/19 11:28am

Guess what...BYU fans also

Natedog916

8/23/19 11:40am

Yeah that group of BYU fans number in the 10s.

DocPimp

8/24/19 10:44pm

And........what’s your point?

Natedog916

8/24/19 10:52pm

That you just described 10 BYU fans at most.

DocPimp

8/24/19 10:58pm

It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 or 20k. The same thing that you laud Ute fans for

Natedog916

8/24/19 11:02pm

Well if you said porn use then yes...

DocPimp

8/25/19 2:36am

As a BYU fan with a goatee, I think this is a dumb post.

ditch

8/22/19 1:41pm

RE: Why is the yewt fan base so low class?

NotTokolosh

8/22/19 3:59pm

And LDS Ute fans won't need to repent for the way they treat others...

DraperCoug22

8/22/19 4:29pm

Did I say that? Show me the posts here from Utah fans calling BYU fans low class

NotTokolosh

8/22/19 4:43pm

It just manifests itself in different ways...

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 5:12pm

Again please show me where I said

NotTokolosh

8/22/19 7:03pm

Nice stereotype. Not all BYU fans are members of the church.

Natedog916

8/22/19 4:32pm

Please show me where I said all BYU fans are members of the church.

NotTokolosh

8/22/19 5:00pm

That one is an awesome one. Your stereotype is used to be preachy.

Natedog916

8/22/19 5:16pm

Look up the word stereotype, it’s a part of life whether you like it or not

Pretorian

8/22/19 5:20pm

I know that’s your mantra today. I don’t really care though.

Natedog916

8/22/19 5:30pm

Except you exempt lds Utah fans from the standard isn’t that right?

CoachSpeak

8/22/19 5:11pm

Nope. Didn't say that.

NotTokolosh

8/22/19 7:09pm

RE: Why is the yewt fan base so low class?

Leishdoggydog

8/22/19 5:10pm

Simple, 50% are Utah grads and the other 50% are Jr. High dropouts.

blackshirts

8/22/19 7:07pm

Because

Prickly Heat

8/23/19 12:18am

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