First, you are right, I should not have labeled all Ute fans with this brush. Most of us are fantastic, intelligent people. But there is a shocking amount of fans that are just…dumb.
His positivies waaaaaaayyyyy out weigh his negatives, yet there is a certain faction of our fanbase who think he is the worst coach to ever walk the earth.
Let’s look at Gary Andersen:
1 – Utah DL coach when we won the Fiesta Bowl.
2 – Utah DC when we won the Sugar Bowl.
3 – What he did at Utah State was unreal.
4 – He is a great recruiter. Look what he did at Wisconsin. 2012 class: ranked 65. His next two classes? 40, 32.
5 – Yeah, he left Wisconsin, but there were a million reasons why he did so.
6 – He failed at OSU. Plain and simple.
So, he built up a powerhouse program with Whitt, won two BCS bowls. Went to USU, built that program into a top flight G5 program. He went to Wisconsin and at worst, kept them going at the same level. BUT, reality is, he took them to the next level as well, playing in the Big 10 title game. He is a great evaluator of talent (look at all the pros he recruited at Utah and USU).
Look at all that good. Yet, some are p**sed over some end of the roster players that he talked into USU over Utah and a couple kids he took to Wisconsin. Boohoo. OSU wasn’t great, but to discount all the good because of OSU…not the smartest move either.
We’d be lucky to have Gary on the team. He’d be the second best coach and it wouldn’t even be close. He be our best recruiter…well, Shah is pretty damn amazing too. He would be fantastic for Scalley as a mentor.
We’d be insane to look anywhere else if he is willing to come to Utah.
The question isn’t whether we’d want him, the question is whether he’d want us (and the answer is yes. Utah is his dream job).
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