Not taking up for the Mormons here but do you seriously think there are no Mormons playing for the Utes?
“Not taking up for the Mormons...”
I’ll say the same thing but I won’t kiss ass and say what you said: “Not taking up for the Mormons”. That’s PC bull crap.
I think there are a lot of non Mormons playing for Utah.
Of course there are! (But there's LOTS of Mormons playing for various teams across the country, including the NFL)
Besides. The Utes are ensuring that Utah's reputation isn't very solid, either.
I mean. Imagine being an NCAA ref crew who's about to look @ 40-odd bowl games. And you are told pre-bowl season by a prophet that in the first 21 clock minutes of a game, one of the bowl games would have four unsportsmanslike conduct penalties + a sideline warning (0-yd penalty but meant to send a message to sideline about their location or conduct).
I would think any NCAA ref would think that the BYU-Utah game would be the last game they'd think that would occur.
The Utes even lost a player -- disqualified for the game -- because both of Utah UCs were on him.
(Oh, & the sideline warning?) Versus BYU, of course!