Welcome to my Weber State Fan Blog

Hi. My name is Michael. I'm assuming that if you have found this blog, you are a Weber State sports fan.

I was born and raised on the Wasatch Front. Orem High class of 2008. I moved up to Ogden to attend Weber State in 2011. After graduating from Weber in 2015, I moved; first to Nevada and then to South Carolina, where I currently live. Purple fever runs a bit sparse in these parts. Needless to say, when I sport a Weber hat or t-shirt here in Columbia, SC, not many folks around here come up to me saying, "How about them Wildcats?!" In fact, that has happened precisely zero times since I've moved here.

Each week during football and basketball season, after watching the Wildcats play, I often ambush my wife and bombard her with my thoughts on the game, the players, the Big Sky, the state of college bball and football, the coaches, etc. until I'm blue in the face. The only problem is my wife, despite being a Weber State grad herself, does not quite share my level of excitement, enthusiasm, and obsession with Weber State sports. She kindly nods, musters up her most sympathetic "I'm trying to care" face and waits for me to finish flapping my gums.

As I began looking online for more content and likeminded fans to connect with, I've noticed a sizable gap in the coverage of Weber State. There is not a lot of opinion-based content on the Wildcats. The Standard Examiner does a good job reporting on the games (way to go Brett Hein), but there's no columnist who dishes out opinions regularly. The rest of the state largely ignores Weber State sports. KSL, SLTrib, Deseret News, often only post the AP story of the games, probably written by AI and gives little to no story or take on the games. Sports media in the state is 95% focused on the Jazz, Utes, and Cougars. I get it. That's what 95% of the people on the Wasatch Front care about. Being a Weber fan is sometime a lonely road in a state dominated by the "big" schools and their massive sports programs and following.

I'm not a professional sportswriter, nor am I pretending to be one. I just need to vent my thoughts about Weber sports and I'm hoping a few other fans will enjoy reading what I've got to say. I'm looking forward to interacting with fellow Wildcat fans, and my wife will be glad to be off the hook for pretending to care what I have to say about the games. Win win.

Plan is to release one column style post per week.

Go Wildcats.

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My Heart, My Brain, and My Gut Predictions for the 2025 Football Season

Late August is truly when Hope Springs Eternal for college football fans. Unfortunately on the eve of the season opener for the Weber State Wildcats, the expectations for Mickey Mental’s Wildcats are the lowest they’ve been in about a decade. Over the last few seasons, Weber has gone from the glory days of being a perennial top 25 team who won 4 Big Sky Championships under the leadership of the legendary Jay Hill, to a team with a losing record, dropping games to the like of Idaho State…at home...Ugh. My heart, my gut, and my brain are all giving me different predictions for what is going to happen this season. Let’s take a look at each game. Game 1 - @ James Madison JMU has continued their winning ways since jumping up to FBS. They are good. In fact, they are the heavy favorite to win the Sun Belt Championship this year. They’ve got a QB coming back who threw for a gazillion yards last season. It’s a road game 2000 miles away. The Dukes have crushed the h...

March Sadness Leading to Hope

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