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Coach K got burned out. The program was stagnant and his “old school” offense and style didn’t resonate with the up coming players. Recruiting is everything. Coach K had NBA experience and connections that helped him recruit. Smith doesn’t offer anything to attract top talent.

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I remember having conversations with you about this issue on “Block U.”. Coach K was definitely fired a year or two too late because of that anchor contract extension Chris Hill gave him. I remember that everyone’s minds were boggled seeing the product on the floor and knowing that Coach K was one of the highest paid college basketball coaches in…[Read more]

No no no. Absolutely not. The man was not a good basketball coach. The fact that we may have hired the wrong guy in Smith does not make firing Krstkowi-hack wrong. Do you remember our offenses under Krystowiak? Dribble the air out of the ball, pass around the wing, chuck up a shot at the last second and hope it goes in. It was like watching paint…[Read more]

No disrespect, but the only people that can say that Coach K was deserving of another year are those that didn’t live the experience. Coach K’s last few years with the team were as bad an anything we’ve seen from Smith albeit with a more athletic crew. It’s telling that, either due to burnout or a loss of interest in the game, Coach K…[Read more]

Admittedly, I don’t really care too much about basketball (college or NBA), but I liked Krystkowiak, and thought his termination was premature. That said, I believe that there was a cancer in the locker room, and I’m not sure how much he had to do with that. I don’t know if he was personally the primary reason why all those recruits couldn’t…[Read more]

I wouldn’t want them to replace the Huntsman Center unless they were doing something really cool and if it was close to RES (downtown would be a really bad idea, in my opinion).

Consistently winning will get people back to the games. RES isn’t downtown and they’ve sold out for 15 years. Why? Because we’ve been good. The U is investing in stude…[Read more]

I thought Larry should’ve gotten at least one more season when he was fired after 2020-21 and I was one of the minority voices with that opinion among Utah fans. Many fans had lost patience with him and wanted to move on, and didn’t seem to realize we might get a coach who was even worse.

Looking back, I still think Larry should have had one more…[Read more]

80% of the teams in college football run the same playbook currently with different nomenclature. The RPO is not some magic thing, it is zone read plus… As stated, the difference is discipline and if the history is any indicator, Utah O-line has a hard time holding up and staying in the 3 yards.

It is not like Beck is bringing a revolution.…[Read more]

I think the one thing right school needs to focus on to keep the national respect for the school on the big stage, outside of its medical research institution, is the football program. That, IMO, is the #1 priority that is imperative to keep the image, profile and brand recogntion on the national stage, especially in the Big12. If the athletic…[Read more]

This is an interesting comment. The reason I say that is because, in the six seasons that I’ve been going to MBB on a regular basis, I personally have never had a single issue with parking or departing a game. Maybe it’s different if you’re driving south from the JHC? I live in Davis County and I’ve had no issues at all. And that includes…[Read more]

Love it! I’ll add it to my lexicon.

Malcolm Gladwell did a podcast years ago about foul shots. Interviewed Rick Barry who shot the granny shot. Rick convinced Wilt Chamberlain to shoot that way for a while and his % skyrocketed, but he the teasing and laughs made him switch back. He said if he would have stuck with it he would have been the all time leading scorer hands down. I…[Read more]

Keller is flat out awful and should be getting zero minutes. I liked Lohner coming off the bench to spell Lovering. He’s not tall enough to guard a true center (like that corn-fed mule Kansas had) but he’s got heft and knows how to throw it around. That’s good enough for a backup. Mass kicks ass, after all.

Pretty much the FT issue is Lovering, not so much the team. It is several games now that others are more than happy to foul him to try to come back. They are more than willing to not guard him at all on the outside giving him a 5 on 4 to try to find a pass since he does not shoot much from the outside. The dilemma is he is our best inside defender…[Read more]

I’ll be there on Monday as well. Hope that the team doesn’t have a letdown playing an unimpressive KSU team.

I think that any new basketball venue must have acreage dedicated to parking adjacent to the building. If they cater to the fans by getting them to the game without the contant worry of getting a parking space and then being able to exit the venue without spending an hour slowly creeping out, the fans will come.

Yes, they need to field at least…[Read more]

Missed attending due to a family commitment up north that got me home well after midnight and watched the tape this morning.

Great win for the team. Other than Lovering (who must be given credit for hard nosed defense), the team was 16-19 from the charity stripe and as a team we had just 7 turnovers against an aggressive defensive…[Read more]

I kind of blew this game off because I wanted to watch the USA vs Canada hockey game and thought that Utah would have a hard time versus Kansas. I’m not questioning that decision since the hockey game was extremely entertaining and I was able to catch Utah’s second half on TV. The game kind of reminded me of the Arizona game at the JHC during…[Read more]