to unite the team and the fans at games. Correct me if I'm wrong but they opened the season this year with a moment of loudness and a video montage that honored the slain players that were killed in 2020 and 2021.

I think it would be perfectly appropriate to do what they did in 2021 or 2022 or maybe even 2023. I wouldn't say much of anything about it. I get it. You never get over losing a young person. If BYU lost someone like Jamaal Williams in a gun violence tragedy I could picture BYU memorializing him in some way potentially for a long time. A statue, a plaque, a shrine, a framed picture, a tradition, an award in his name...I'm trying to think of what would be appropriate. I don't know.

I feel bad but something about the way Utah has done it has left me feeling weird about it and I'm trying to figure out if its just my natural distaste for the university of Utah or if theres more to it. I feel bad for feeling that way. I feel like a jerk for feeling that way. I should leave it alone and let people grieve for as long as they want and as long as they need. I know people that have lost loved ones young and they never get over it and they need to at times bring up those that they lost to keep their memory alive just to cope. But i feel like theres a difference between families grieving and entire universities and administrators and departments grieving...Where my mind goes is I just start to at some point feel like the administration is trying to capitalize on the tragedy and use it for their purposes whether for money or motivation or unity that they couldn't achieve by other means. I feel like it may be emotionally manipulative and exploitive. The dead people can't give their consent to using their names images or likeness in this way. At some point you memorialize and then you move on. And coaches need to find ways to motivate and unify players...but using tragedy and the dead to accomplish that task of motivation-can you keep doing that while still respecting the dead? Is that ok? But I don't know if I'm squarely in the wrong in thinking these thoughts. Am I totally wrong? Am I a jerk? Help me out with this one.