It's a shame that such an old rivalry is ending or skipping a few years. There are better ways to solve the ugliness of the rivalry. Utah doesn't need to play byu to help them out but the same could be said of byu. they both can easily find similar level of competition to fill the game. Byu is down this year but normally is a solid basketball team with a good rpi. Utah is on the way up and hopefully getting back to their glory days. On a side note Larry must have something personal against byu or hoping this will get the players more on his side because paying that much out of pocket to not play one game a year is crazy. Also Chris hill claiming more or less they are too good to do home and home with any local teams is crazy. Plenty of much bigger better programs do home and homes with the local teams and with their own in state rivals. Utah would do well to move on from Chris hill imo.
That said BYU really needs to do something about their players taking cheap shots and need to shake that from their image. Utah is not the only team that complains about their cheap shots.
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This is Utah's coach just doing a power move. Probably, in his mind, the best case scenario is the rivalry is only dead for a year and BYU and Utah are begging for it to come back. He makes it come back and in the process, has humbled BYU and they kiss his feet for letting them play each other again. They don't commit a foul all game to show how nice they are.