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Sadly, you kind of have to do that if you sense a great coach and want to keep him happy. Dr Hill, however, was badly mistaken on what he thought was an elite coach.

I won’t go into the arena thing again

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Yeah, the fact he retired after sucking Utah’s paychecks dry (which is something the vast majority of fired coaches do NOT do) is probably telling. I was very surprised when I saw he’d retired. I fully expected him to move onto another college program after having a somewhat successful run at Utah. He was apparently happy to be retired and let…[Read more]

No doubt. I think if we could have made some more free throws that would’ve been good for 2 or 3 more wins.

No, I don’t think Harlan is doing jack shit to help MBB. He’s part of the problem, in my opinion.

We’d definitely be in if we won out.

Our paths to the ncaa tournament:

– Win the XII tourney
– Win out regular season
– Go 4-1 to finish regular season and 1 game in KC
– Go 3-2 (including Arizona) to finish regular season and 1 game in KC

I think any of those gets us in.

Well, I think Smith is a good coach on the court, but he’s still responsible for putting the team together. The talent we have or don’t have is on him.

Calling Craig Smith a good, possibly great coach is the funniest thing I have heard in months. Yes, we just won two games in a row. One against possibly the worst Kansas team we have seen in a decade and the other over a mediocre KSU squad. Prior to that we lost three road games in a row against two mediocre teams and one crappy team. Smith’s…[Read more]

I did the same thing. I had 5 in W13 and it just got ridiculous keeping them and using all of them. The last season I had them I never used all 5 of them once. Such a waste of money. It certainly is a younger man’s game. Now if I want to attend in person I just either buy from friends and family or use the secondary market. It saves me well…[Read more]

I think NIL and the portal make coach loyalty and impact on coaches contracts less of an issue.

I agree. To answer the question what does it take to make the tournament, Utah would have to go on a streak wining out with exception of Az and do something in the conference tournament. All those games are possible but we could also lose any of them. I would say we need to consistently play at our best level, something we have not been able to do…[Read more]

My point exactly.

Utah has most certainly exceeded my expectations but leaves me with a feeling of what could have been if they had just been mediocre in shooting FTs in a few games. With just a mediocre percentage in shooting FTs, this team would easily be 17-9 and looking like a bubble team for the Dance. As it stands right now, to even get any cursory…[Read more]

I’m not certain that Lovering qualifies for a “Covid Year”, since he was still in high school when the policy was implemented. My understanding is that the “Covid Year” exception only applies to individuals who were athletes during the 19-20 and 20-21 seasons. Lovering didn’t start college at Colorado until 21-22.

We would have to go on a hot streak just to swirl and you can’t go on streaks when you can’t win road games.

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I agree – this team has been much better than expected. I can’t say I’m happy with the level Utah is currently at…..but we could be a bottom-dweller instead of mediocre.

Really was a great weekend, knocking off Kansas (first time ever I believe) and a hot Kansas State team who had a 6 game winning streak before visiting Provo and Salt Lake.

Early in the conference schedule, starting with 3 non-competitive losses, I thought we were destined for a last place finish, but team has come around, knocked off some good…[Read more]