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Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - KartyFan - 06-16-2010

Will Colorado and Utah ever learn to hate each other?  Their pairing will be treated as the traditional rivalry game in Pac-10 scheduling.

It it important to have an in-conference rival?

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - shade - 06-16-2010

Not even close to Utah/BYU and CU/Nebraska.  Wait!  Who is CU\'s natural rival?  Colorado State?

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Extra Point - 06-17-2010

Does anyone here consider cal to be a bigger rival than USC? I consider cal to be regional rivalry, while USC represents everything bad in the world.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Canalejas - 06-17-2010

I\'ve been seeing this pop up on discussion boards recently.  Why is it hard to maintain this rivalry of ours with kal?  USC can\'t be everyone\'s rival, you know?  Are the Bears not odious enough?  I guess it was easy for me to develop a fun dislike for them since so many of my high school buds went there and we talked plenty of trash.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - KartyFan - 06-17-2010

Quote:Does anyone here consider kal to be a bigger rival than USC?

Yes, absolutely.  While I would of love to beat USC, losing to kal puts a black mark on any season, no matter how we did.  Beating them makes any season worthwhile (see 2007).  

A better job needs to be done getting students from outside the Bay Area to develop the same hatred towards kal that they have for us.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - fullmetal - 06-17-2010

USC\'s prominence makes it a natural target for a rivalry, especially given our recent comparative success against them.  At the individual student level, however, the phrase "kal sucks" can be found on the tip of every Stanford student\'s tongue.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Sue_Ann_Duckett - 06-17-2010

You can have more than one rival. Cal is certainly our top rival, but beating USC is a thrill. (Especially when it drives Pete Carroll out of college football.) UCLA is a further step down (in football; a step, in basketball) but still more meaningful than a victory over Utah or Colorado will ever be, at least in my lifetime.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - davidjwalsh - 06-17-2010

Quote:Will Colorado and Utah ever learn to hate each other?  Their pairing will be treated as the traditional rivalry game in Pac-10 scheduling.

It it important to have an in-conference rival?


The Yoot fans are doing their level best to annoy us already, from the sounds of it they wont be hard to dislike.  As you surely know academically inferior, mouthy, little brothers are easy to dislike.  Besides they wear read, we are trained to hate that from a young age.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - jacketree - 06-17-2010

You can learn to hate anyone.  When Virginia Tech joined the ACC, the real (Georgia) Tech fans remembered them only as a post-UVA scare during our National Title run, while Colorado was busy refining their fifth down playbook.

A couple of tense games with league titles on the line and a goalpost delivered to the doorstep of GT\'s president later, there is absolute hatred between the fan bases.  The Vippie Sue whining over cut blocking escalated to such a level last year that when the EDSBS site prepped a "Things Paul Johnson Cares About" pie chart 90% was "Kicking Ass" and all but a small "what comes out of your fool mouth" slice and a sliver labeled "CSI Miami oddly enough" was reserved for "beating Frank Beamer to death with a claw hammer."  It only took four years.

I grew up 20 minutes from the Boulder campus.  CU is geographically isolated from major rivals.  They never played Air Force or Wyoming that I can recall, and the legislature made them finally play CSU long after I left the state.  Nebraska was it.  CU almost never won, but all you need to know about that rivalry came on Interstate 76 at the state line.  A year after Sal Anese (sp?) fell victim to cancer, Nebraskans welcomed their neighbors to the west with "Sal is dead. Go Big Red." in big white letters on the pavement. My sister went to CU for 2 years and many of my high school friends are alumni of CU.  They HATE Nebraska.

When I think of Utah I think of the Joe Pesci/Herman Munster courtroom scene in "My Cousin Vinnie".

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Kathy - 06-18-2010

Quote:Does anyone here consider kal to be a bigger rival than USC?

There\'s a reason we call it Big Game.


Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Spiny_Norman - 06-19-2010

I quote from the FAQs at an authoritative site called The Cardboard:

Quote:Who is this fellow named Cal, and why do you want to beat him?

Cal is Stanford\'s whipping boy. We\'ve been beating Cal since 1891. Some people claim Cal is a university, but we don\'t believe them.


I think the happiest group is Wash. St. - Redrum - 06-19-2010

See that school out on the horizon?  The one raising it\'s hand and shouting "Me! Me!  I\'ll hate Utah!  Why, I\'m hating them more every passing minute."

After decades of being a god-forsaken outpost in the semi-arid wheat fields somewhere out, well, out there somewhere...  now they are no longer on a moon base. They have neighbors to the east.  A day\'s drive to the east.  They are now in the heart of the Pac-10 North and itching for rivals that aren\'t a**holes in purple.


Did You Know? - needle - 06-21-2010

The University of Idaho was a member of the perhaps not-so-aptly named Pacific Coast Conference until 1959.

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Sue_Ann_Duckett - 06-21-2010

I\'m very unclear on how the scheduling of that conference worked. Stanford played Idaho in football only seven times during the history of the Pacific Coast Conference -- not at all in the 1930s, and never after 1949.

Not since 1949. Because Idaho stayed stuck in 1949 - Redrum - 06-21-2010

While the rest of the world kept moving on, one momentous year at a time.   It was part of Idaho\'s charm, actually.   At least until the Survivalist, Neo-Nazi Apocalypse Worshippers decided that Couer d\' Alene would be a great place to make a stand against the Zionist Occupational Government (ZOG).   And yes,  they used the word "occupational",  a word usually associated with \'counseling" or "therapy"  or just plain work rather than world domination by people who will destroy our bodily fluids.  

Re: Forced Rivalry: Will it Work? - Beeg_Dawg - 06-22-2010

I didn\'t see see kal as a rival after a few years.  In my world, a rival is a worthy adversary, perhaps even a peer.

kal is neither.