You're right about the Utah D-lineman that stirred up ****. He was exactly who I was thinking about when I said the Utes have been guilty of it from time to time. As far as my opinion being slanted towards the Utes, history proves me right and all the information is there to see if anybody cares to actually look into it. And while Utah may have had a D-lineman say some dumb **** before a bowl game, I find it interesting that BYU has so many former players that are total nutjobs on social media and seriously try to spread as much hate as possible. Go read through Poppinga's and Stevensen's twitter feed and then show me a former Ute player who can ever compare to the absolute nonsense that those guys say on a daily basis. Show me a Ute player that talks about how badly he hates BYU and its fans like Max Hall does about Utah anytime there's a camera in his face. Go look up all the ******** guys like Lenny Gomes and Austin Collie have said about Utah.
Urban Meyer came to Utah wanting to treat the rivalry like Michigan and Ohio State do. Yes, he took some things in the locker room up a notch and hurt the BYU fans fragile feelings but he's never publicly went after BYU or attacked its fan base. Cougar fans have short memories. You guys and your players cornered the market on being holier than thou, elitist, douche bags for decades prior to what we're seeing with Ute fans now. The current climate is nothing more than the comeuppance that your program deserves and now that the shoe is on the other foot, you want to ignore decades worth of horrible fan and player behavior and coaches running up scores, only to plead for the rivalry to be civil, even though your alumni is out there leading the hate charge. My biggest regret is that BYU didn't have their glory years during the social media days so more of the nonsense could be documented.
I'm sure it's pretty easy for BYU fans to demonize Ute fans and claim that the rhetoric needs to die down considering the script has flipped. Your fan base and program had zero interest in acting civil when it was your time on top.