Editor:
Neither Amy Romanowski nor Hal J. Rushton understand the role the recent Latter-day Saints? General Conference played in the University of Utah football schedule this year, or any year for that matter.
The week before the game against South Florida, Chris Hill, sports director for the U, specifically addressed this issue.
Hill said that the U always tries to set up the football schedule so it doesn’t conflict with things such as the Utah Educators Association Conference (UEA, when all the states schools are closed), Fall break (when no one is on campus for the games anyway) and LDS General Conference.
He tries very hard to get away games and byes scheduled those weeks. This effort has everything to do with the amount of revenue the U can generate from the home football games, and very little to do with respect for teachers, the LDS church or the deer hunt.
This year, there were just too many conflicts in October to avoid scheduling conflicts.
Charles Wentworth, First Year, Law School