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What to expect when Utah has the ball: Whatever they want. Seriously, it's the Lobos. They'll use this as a learning experience for Jordan Wynn. I really don't see why they can't open it up a bit and get the offense some momentum heading into TCU.

What to expect when New Mexico has the ball: Probably not much. The Lobos aren't an offensive threat. In fact, they're abysmal all around.

How Utah wins: Show up and don't turn the ball over. Not hard. If Utah loses, it will trump UNLV as the worst loss in program history. 

Lucky G. O'Utes is ready for some Loobs (here).

What be a Lobo?

yes, it’s true.  the votes are in + tallied.  youth education {more specifically club u} has been voted by the people to be the best day camp in salt lake city, utah!  thank you, thank you, thank you to all those who helped make this happen.  especially the little people, for without you we would not even have a day camp to be the best at.    and a huge thanks to the big people:  the staff, the parents, the nice people at the university of utah. . .  you are the heart + soul of this operation; without you our program would not be full of the high-quality fun that it is today.   you all seriously rock.  club u for life!!

Kim and Navy Lieutenant Mike are two of the funniest people I know. And they’re both fellow MBAers.

Kim sits in the front row. That pic is Kim with her husband. Kim says things only she can say cuz she’s a cutie. And the things she says are many times a bit snarky. But she says them in such a way that really, all you can do is laugh. Cuz she’s Kim. And she’s rad. She’s the first person I’ve met that I feel could actually get away with murder. The police burst in. She’s standing there with a bloody knife over a corpse and growing pool of red. She looks at the cops and says, “Wow, I killed the hell out of that guy,” and everyone has a good laugh and sends her on her way.

Navy Lieutenant Mike sits the back row. I’m not sure whether he or Kim has sent the class into hysterics more. Mike speaks up when he disagrees with the professor. His responses are effortless, spontaneous, and painfully funny. And the professor usually doesn’t come out looking all that good. He has a way of using the prof’s own argument against them. Almost Socratic. He can do it cuz he’s super bright. My buddy Joe pointed this out to me. Joe sits next to him. Joe used to always tell me how Mike would whisper to him a couple of times in every class and just crack him up. So I tried sitting by him once last year. In Business Communications. It’s true. Within 5 minutes I’d wet my pants I was laughing so hard. Wet pants were just as uncomfortable as I’d remembered them being when I was 3. I don’t have a picture of Navy Lieutenant Mike so here’s Charlie Sheen and some dude in Navy Seals.

This is frustrating. I simply cannot express how funny these two are. I tried to think of examples but I just have vague recollections of my eyes tearing up while trying to keep composure in class. Maybe this one…last Wednesday…

Professor: I don’t want to just give you the answers.
Kim (deadpan): But it’s just so much easier that way.

Kim is about to have a baby. Pretty much any day now. And I’m secretly disappointed that Navy Lieutenant Mike isn’t the father. You know how we’re all pretty sure that Andre Agassi’s and Steffi Graf’s kids are basically going to just be tennis robots? Same thing. I think Kim and Mike would raise Jerry Seinfeld or Dave Chappelle.

Anyway, Sam had pointed out in the comments that I didn’t include Kim as a Hot Accountant Girl. I didn’t know she accounted. But she certainly meets the criteria. And thinking about Kim made me think about funny MBAers which made me think about Navy Lieutenant Mike. I figured that a blog detailing their exploits would be hilarious. But reading back on it, it really didn’t come together. Unfortunately, it’s already that time of year when I really can’t give any assignment/paper/blog post more than one shot. So this will have to do.

Incidentally, I would like to thank Jared (our University of Utah GBSA co-chair and fan of hated rival BYU (where he got his undergrad)) personally for his Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars drawing attention to themselves only to humiliate the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in front of the entire nation. See, Utah plays sports in the MWC. In football in particular, the MWC is institutionally disadvantaged. I’ll spare you the details but basically we are given less money and respect than other conferences, which if you don’t know, are groups of schools.

For the last few years, Utah has been carrying the banner for the entire MWC. We’re the only team in the BCS era with two undefeated seasons in football. The only non-BCS team to go to two BCS games. That’s as many as every other non-BCS school combined. We won them both. That’s as many BCS wins as the Atlantic Coast Conference who gets to send a team every year. We’re also the only school ever to have a #1 NFL and NBA draft pick in the same year. If none of this makes sense to you, I’m intentionally being vague. Explaining this would take an entire blog. But if you want me to explain I will. In fact, I’m a freak for this and would wet my pants again if someone actually wanted me to tell them about it.

Anyway, Utah struggles alone. The other schools in the conference are not all that competitive with the rest of the country. BYU especially. BYU is in our conference. While Utah digs in its heels and strains in a futile tug-of-war with the powers that be, BYU holds loosely on the rope with one hand and picks its belly button with the other. To illustrate, BYU had zero wins in its last 12 football games against top 25 non-conference opponents.

Until a couple of weeks ago. They beat Oklahoma. On the road. #3 in the nation Oklahoma. Holy crap. They picked up the rope! They’re going to pull! The entire country is watching them now! So what do they do?

They lose. They lose 54-28 to Florida State. At home. Sigh.

Most headlines used variations on the words “exposed” and “humiliated”.

Thanks Cougars. Go back to your belly buttons.

Kim and Navy Lieutenant Mike are two of the funniest people I know. And they’re both fellow MBAers.

Kim sits in the front row. That pic is Kim with her husband. Kim says things only she can say cuz she’s a cutie. And the things she says are many times a bit snarky. But she says them in such a way that really, all you can do is laugh. Cuz she’s Kim. And she’s rad. She’s the first person I’ve met that I feel could actually get away with murder. The police burst in. She’s standing there with a bloody knife over a corpse and growing pool of red. She looks at the cops and says, “Wow, I killed the hell out of that guy,” and everyone has a good laugh and sends her on her way.

Navy Lieutenant Mike sits the back row. I’m not sure whether he or Kim has sent the class into hysterics more. Mike speaks up when he disagrees with the professor. His responses are effortless, spontaneous, and painfully funny. And the professor usually doesn’t come out looking all that good. He has a way of using the prof’s own argument against them. Almost Socratic. He can do it cuz he’s super bright. My buddy Joe pointed this out to me. Joe sits next to him. Joe used to always tell me how Mike would whisper to him a couple of times in every class and just crack him up. So I tried sitting by him once last year. In Business Communications. It’s true. Within 5 minutes I’d wet my pants I was laughing so hard. Wet pants were just as uncomfortable as I’d remembered them being when I was 3. I don’t have a picture of Navy Lieutenant Mike so here’s Charlie Sheen and some dude in Navy Seals.

This is frustrating. I simply cannot express how funny these two are. I tried to think of examples but I just have vague recollections of my eyes tearing up while trying to keep composure in class. Maybe this one…last Wednesday…

Professor: I don’t want to just give you the answers.
Kim (deadpan): But it’s just so much easier that way.

Kim is about to have a baby. Pretty much any day now. And I’m secretly disappointed that Navy Lieutenant Mike isn’t the father. You know how we’re all pretty sure that Andre Agassi’s and Steffi Graf’s kids are basically going to just be tennis robots? Same thing. I think Kim and Mike would raise Jerry Seinfeld or Dave Chappelle.

Anyway, Sam had pointed out in the comments that I didn’t include Kim as a Hot Accountant Girl. I didn’t know she accounted. But she certainly meets the criteria. And thinking about Kim made me think about funny MBAers which made me think about Navy Lieutenant Mike. I figured that a blog detailing their exploits would be hilarious. But reading back on it, it really didn’t come together. Unfortunately, it’s already that time of year when I really can’t give any assignment/paper/blog post more than one shot. So this will have to do.

Incidentally, I would like to thank Jared (our University of Utah GBSA co-chair and fan of hated rival BYU (where he got his undergrad)) personally for his Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars drawing attention to themselves only to humiliate the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in front of the entire nation. See, Utah plays sports in the MWC. In football in particular, the MWC is institutionally disadvantaged. I’ll spare you the details but basically we are given less money and respect than other conferences, which if you don’t know, are groups of schools.

For the last few years, Utah has been carrying the banner for the entire MWC. We’re the only team in the BCS era with two undefeated seasons in football. The only non-BCS team to go to two BCS games. That’s as many as every other non-BCS school combined. We won them both. That’s as many BCS wins as the Atlantic Coast Conference who gets to send a team every year. We’re also the only school ever to have a #1 NFL and NBA draft pick in the same year. If none of this makes sense to you, I’m intentionally being vague. Explaining this would take an entire blog. But if you want me to explain I will. In fact, I’m a freak for this and would wet my pants again if someone actually wanted me to tell them about it.

Anyway, Utah struggles alone. The other schools in the conference are not all that competitive with the rest of the country. BYU especially. BYU is in our conference. While Utah digs in its heels and strains in a futile tug-of-war with the powers that be, BYU holds loosely on the rope with one hand and picks its belly button with the other. To illustrate, BYU had zero wins in its last 12 football games against top 25 non-conference opponents.

Until a couple of weeks ago. They beat Oklahoma. On the road. #3 in the nation Oklahoma. Holy crap. They picked up the rope! They’re going to pull! The entire country is watching them now! So what do they do?

They lose. They lose 54-28 to Florida State. At home. Sigh.

Most headlines used variations on the words “exposed” and “humiliated”.

Thanks Cougars. Go back to your belly buttons.

A

Giant Club Cactus (Cereus repandus)

 

VERY EXCITING NEWS!!! Our Giant Club Cactus is blooming in the Visitor Center.  The flower will be open today, and today only.

Come see it before it closes. You'll be impressed with how large and beautiful it is.

Im thinking about doing a language fair in oklahoma in the shoshone language. im gonna enter doing that song bryan taught me but im not sure cause most shoshones here dont know songs but im willing to teach them if they want to know. thats whats new with me but if your intrested to know more write back ok thanks miss you guys its been a while but would like to hear from ya


marjle

The Utes got on the board in the 25th minute when Lauren Dudley assisted Kelly Isleib. Lauren Porter gave the Utes a 2-0 lead just ten minutes into the second half; Porter scored on a header from a free kick off the foot of Morgan Skeen. Although TCU snuck one in, the Utes struck back yet again when Erin Dalley blew by TCU defenders and goalie to seal the deal. The team ended up with a solid 3-1 victory.

University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. The study is a step toward the goal of designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts to increase energy production, reduce Earth-warming gases and manufacture a wide variety of goods from medicines to gasoline.

Randal Quarles gave the Spencer Fox Eccles Convocation at the DESB a couple of weeks ago. Quarles is a really accomplished and interesting guy (Undersecretary of the Treasury in the Bush administration), and he was kind enough to meet with a small group of students and faculty prior to the Convocation speech. It was great to get an insider's view of the US Treasury Department.

If you missed the big speech, it's here....

Quarles dropped a book recommendation that I've added to my reading list. It's Robert Rubin's In An Uncertain World. (Link below, and all "affiliate" proceeds to the Utah Food Bank, as usual). Quarles described it as the best book ever written by a Treasury Secretary --- Rubin served under President Clinton --- and this seems like pretty high praise. I'll try to report back after I get through it.



I told Quarles to go read Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, which might be the best book ever written by anyone (Treasury Secretary or not).

Congrats to American Meb Keflezighi for winning the NYC Marathon yesterday. What an awesome race! First American to win since 1982. Meb was injured last year so this victory is another in a great year for American distance running. I was fortunate to meet and hang out with Meb prior to his race at last years Olympic Trials in Eugene. Nike helped set up a pre race family/friends gathering at the house where the original Nike Company contract was signed by Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman, and others. It was actually next door to Bowerman's ranch on the McKenzie River north of Eugene. A good friend, Chris Rogers, knew Meb from his days working at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego and even ran with him on his recovery days for a while. Meb called him and invited us. You couldn't imagine a more humble, nice, and better representative of the US. Meb was born in Eritrea, but became a naturalized American citizen at a very young age. Congrats again!

Congrats to American Meb Keflezighi for winning the NYC Marathon yesterday. What an awesome race! First American to win since 1982. Meb was injured last year so this victory is another in a great year for American distance running. I was fortunate to meet and hang out with Meb prior to his race at last years Olympic Trials in Eugene. Nike helped set up a pre race family/friends gathering at the house where the original Nike Company contract was signed by Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman, and others. It was actually next door to Bowerman's ranch on the McKenzie River north of Eugene. A good friend, Chris Rogers, knew Meb from his days working at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego and even ran with him on his recovery days for a while. Meb called him and invited us. You couldn't imagine a more humble, nice, and better representative of the US. Meb was born in Eritrea, but became a naturalized American citizen at a very young age. Congrats again!

Happy Halloween!! Hope you have a fun and safe halloween and that we see you at our match vs. UNLV on October 31st at 1 pm on Crimson Court. See you there!