Originally Posted by
Ma'ake
This is like saying "if you can't name all the schools in the SEC in 20 seconds, anything you say about the SEC lacks merit". For the sake of your family - who presumably depend on your cognitive skills to put bread on the table - I hope you've got a stronger mental game at your day job.
I spend a lot more time watching what happens in the PAC than I do the WCC, but that I found in 5 minutes of casual browsing multiple angry opinions from WCC fans about BYU is notable... and easily predicted, in 2010.
As the tables have turned, and especially as Utah does well, BYU fans get quickly irritated and a sense of desperation seeps in, the sense of being left behind... an attitude that has unintended consequences.
If BYU beats any given team in the WCC (except Gonzaga and St. Marys), it's expected, the feat is not highly regarded. If they get beat by one of those other WCC teams, it's proof everything is horrible, the conference's gymnasiums are criticized, BYU's situation is undeserved, the coach might need to be replaced, etc.
BYU in the WCC is like the wife of a wall street crook who goes to prison for insider trading and she's forced to live among "the commoners". While you try to be nice, you can't help but criticize the yards in the new neighborhood, and complain that life is just unbearable having to drive a Toyota, that you really deserve a Bentley, and life is so hard without hired help.
Normally when a school loses, its fans take a lower profile and hope for better outcomes in the future. When BYU fans lose, they become more offensive, in a condescending way.
Look, nobody would expect *you* to understand this phenomenon, but if I were speaking in front of a wide cross section of fans from teams in the West, I'd be getting a lot of nods, and "yeah, no doubt!"s