The University of Utah scheduled a home-and-home football series with the defending national champions of LSU. This is, of course, a fantastic “get” for the Utes from a scheduling standpoint.
We should appreciate what Eric Weddle has done on the football field, and more importantly, tip our hats to the person he is and always has been off of it.
It’s our fault really. All of us with the idea that the Conference of Champions might actually have two teams that belong in the conversation considering college football’s “elites.”
One single second can change everything in sports. On Thursday night, in the waning moments of an otherwise uninteresting game, we saw something that changed an emerging NFL star’s reputation - and maybe even league rules - forever.
Undefeated, original BCS Busters, #4 in the country, and still forever underrated on a national scale, the 2004 Utes were one of the greatest football teams of our generation.
Of course, there is also the concern that a legal compensation model for college athletes will drastically alter the recruiting landscape. If this is your worry, you are failing to acknowledge that a compensation model already exists on the recruiting trail.