Fair points and virtually any new coach may not succeed. I was not trying to make a prediction of how well Pope will do @ Kentucky but rather point out that though Kentucky swung and missed on their top targets, they still wanted Pope. Do you hear of anyone trying to lure Smith away from us?
Many programs would like to hire Whittingham and almost all of us would hate to see him go. If someone bought out Smith’s contract and Utah could start from scratch, I would not expect to see much hand wringing from Ute fans.
As for how Young will do, time will tell. Whomever is ponying up the 4.2m/yr for his salary will undoubtedly have considered organizing some NIL coin as well. I’d be bullish on the program’s potential were I a Zoob.
As for Utah’s prospects- fingers crossed. I was able to attend the Iowa NIT game and it was a lot of fun. Empty arena, but a lot of fun. We arrived a few minutes after tipoff and they charged half price for the tiks with was only $5 or $10. My brother bought the tiks for two families and grandparents, I tried to pay him back and he laughed at me. The total was barely more than the price of a sandwich. We all had a good time. It was really easy to make the Jumbotron cam because of such a small crowd. We would attend again but there was certainly not a feeling of being on the cusp of the big time.
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