Did Utah purposely shut down their online ticket office to prevent Alabama fans from getting Tickets?

I doubt that is the case, but today at 10 AM mountain time the Utah ticket office was selling Sugar Bowl tickets online, over the phone, and at the box office.  However, early in the process the website crashed and a message was released that all tickets had to go through the box office in person or over the phone.   Extra staff was added to cover the flood of calls or those who went to the box office in person.

I wonder if Utah delibrately shut down the website so that Alabama fans would have a tougher time getting the tickets allocated to the Utah fans.  Anyone could call in for tickets, but unless you were a resourceful Alabama fan finding news could have been difficult.  Now, I would hope that Utah would not pull a stunt like that to make harder for Alabama fans to get tickets, but I would not put it pass any fanbase to do so.

A few years ago in one of the NBA Western conference play off series between San Antonio and Dallas were playing, and the two cities are only a two to three hour car drive.  When the games were in Dallas anyone who called or went online to buy tickets were unable to buy if their zipcode was in the greater San Antonio area, so there is precedent in trying to get the tickets for a certain team within the fan base.

Just a thought, but an interesting one.

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San Diego Coaching search down to three

There are still three candidates left, but Mike Martz is off the list and the new arrival is Ball State head man Brady Hoke.

Hoke lead Ball State to a 12-1 record their best in school history, and a good reason that Hoke is interested in the job is that according to the San Diego Union Tribune is that San Diego State could triple is current salary of $240,000 annually.

The other two candidates if you forgotten are Dennis Franchione, who has coached and New Mexico, TCU, Alabama, and Texas A&M and then there is DeWayne Walker current UCLA defensive coordinator.

The front runner at this time, in my opinion is Dennis Franchione because he has proven twice to being able to turn around programs of this caliber, and then Brady Hoke because of his success at Ball State, and then Walker mainly because UCLA was terrible on defense.

Walker is a good coach but he needs to show it on the field with his teams.

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