Trogdor
Soy Boy
Of the big cities in Tejas, SA is way better to visit than the concrete hell holes of Houston and DFW.
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Alamo Bowl - Colorado vs. BYU—Dec 28— 5:30 PM—ABC
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Low bar.
I like San Antonio. History buffs can do the Mission Trail. There’s good Mexican food and decent bars near the riverwalk. It’s a very walkabale city with most of the good parts all within a few square miles. Good golf options for those who are interested. You can do a whole lot worse for a bowl game location.
Trogdor
Soy Boy
No doubt!
Trogdor
Soy Boy
I watched a battle of the alamo movie when I was kid and it had like 30 foot tall walls, like a medieval castle. When I got there I was like, so where's the Alamo? It's a mud hut postage stamp.
I kind of like Fort Worth.
Trogdor
Soy Boy
The Tempe of Texas.
Pro Tip. If you’ve done the River Walk before and would like something fun and a little more sophisticated, try the Pearl Brewery district just north of downtown on the river. La Gloria is fun for dinner.
Can confirm, La Cantera Golf Club is very nice.
Where did u see that? Maybe they are mad at me lol
Email that went out to season ticket holders and Buffs blast!
Neither of which I got. Smh
How many tickets you looking for?
Day after I bought my tickets, ones in the same section were $128 MORE.
There’s some really sick parts of Houston.
I went to that game. We left in third quarter and headed to PCB. Was a fun trip.
Pink taco was good, huh?
That's nuts. I wonder why they didn't play every year in the Rocky Mountain Conference. It's not like that conference was super big, and travel couldn't have been that big of a problem, CU and Utah played every year.
BTW - the Rocky Mountain Conference was probably a fun regional conference. If it had lasted, we would be G5 for sure, but CU, CSU, Utah, DU, Wyo, Mines, BYU, sometimes UNC, sometimes Montana and Montana State, sometimes Utah State. It's kinda no wonder CU and Utah dominated that conference, but I bet the rivalries were pretty hardcore. IIRC, DU was our biggest rival then, though. I know they were in the 30s when my grandma was in Boulder.
Fun fact - the Rocky Mountain Conference still exists in its current incarnation, @MtnBuff's favorite conference, the RMAC.
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The RMAC's a fun conference. Their basketball games especially are wild.
As far as not playing conference opponents, it seems to be just how things were then. We would seemingly play CSU, DU, and Utah every year in the Skyline, but Wyoming, BYU, and Utah State were hit or miss.
I've always wondered how 1948 Buffs fans felt about going from a regional conference to one where we aren't within 500 miles of a conference opponent. Though, I'm sure they were happy to join a better conference.
Ask Peggy.
I think the idea of going more national probably started in the 30s when we were just murdering some of the smaller schools in the conference. Utah. DU, Wyoming, and even CSU could keep up, and the other schools would sometimes have a good year, but the thought must have been that we needed bigger challenges as the school grew.
I think the craziest thing though was that Western was in the RMC for a long time, and even was competitive with a lot of the schools (including BYU). They always took their lumps when they played CU and Utah though.
I'm wasting time and diving into historical stuff - before Lavell Edwards, BYU had finished with a better record than CU 4 times in 50 years. They have finished with a better record than us 26 times since.
It's really hard to overstate how dreadful BYU was at football before Lavell Edwards.
It's really hard to overstate how dreadful BYU was at football before Lavell Edwards.
I've always thought the Utah-Colorado rivalry fron that era seemed fun and wish it had still been a real rivalry when we joined the same conference.
SPCoug
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Lavell, who was also an assistant at BYU for 10 years (1962-71) quipped that everybody wanted to schedule BYU as the homecoming opponent. That's how bad the school was until he turned it completely around and kept it there during his 29 years at the helm. To put it another way, in the 50 years between starting football in 1922 and hiring Lavell, BYU only had 14 winning seasons.
I view the Alamo Bowl with mixed feelings, happy to play Colorado for only the third time since World War II (1981, Boulder; 1988, Freedom Bowl), but disappointed that I can't cheer for every Big-12 school in post-season play. Win or lose, I have tons of respect for Coach Prime and appreciate his reciprocity toward Kalani Sitake and BYU.
Yeah, I think a couple things got in the way - first of all being the long layoff. I don't think there were any Texas-Texas A&M style hard feelings over CU's departure, the rivalry continued for about 15 years after CU went to the Big 7, but then it just stopped for 50 years. The second big reason is that BYU actually made the Holy War a rivalry. I mentioned during that game that if you take out the Lavell Edwards years, Utah/BYU is more lopsided than CU/CSU, but since Edwards was able to close the gap, BYU became a true rival for Utah.
I thought at the time that CU/Utah had the potential to become a good rivalry, especially because BYU and Utah became estranged and weren't going to play one another, and it started out well, with us winning the first game in the Pac and keeping Utah out of of the CCG, but what kind of rivalry is it when one team beats the **** out of the other every single year.
It sucks because with the Nub rivalry dormant, CSU back to becoming nothing close to a rivalry, and BYU and Utah back together again, I feel like we're cast adrift in rivalry land.
I'm one of the few people it seems that is excited for this game. I'm annoyed that the Big 12 didn't put together a schedule that could have the 4 corners schools playing each other every year, instead we're stuck playing 1 AZ school and 1 UT school a year while we play KU, KSU, and OSU almost every year.
I feel like there could be some fun rivalries out of the 5 schools, whereas there will never be a rivalry between us and UCF or us and Cincinnati.