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Alex is hiring a staff with mostly NBA experience. The new NIL will make Utah very competitive in recruiting.

Top 100 recruits care about two things. The NBA and money. Utah will have both of those.

He’s hiring an Utah Bball GM from an NBA front office.

College is less and less about college anymore. These programs are being run like mini n…[Read more]

I really doubt Ezra returns. He’s asking for so much that Utah can get two players just as good as he is for what he wants in NIL.

Utah would absolutely love to have him back but they aren’t going to over pay to keep him.

Someone will over pay to get him but it’s not going to be Utah

Eats has a family and you can’t fault him for getting…[Read more]

Ball didn’t go in the hoop tonight.

Down 20 at half.

Whalin and Dawes will be back even if they both enter the portal.

BYU will lose to Houston tomorrow and will be lucky to make the sweet 16.

Uber athlete teams like Houston run them out of the gym.

I’ve been going back and forth on X with some byu fans over your second point.

The Kevin Young “NBA development” myth is real. Egor has been a nonfactor this year and is sliding down draft boards. Catching doesn’t even play and by some accounts will transfer at the end of the season after falling completely out of any mock draft.

Keba is the…[Read more]

The good news is both Dawes and Whalin both really love playing at Utah.

Alex and NIL should be enough to bring them both back. Ausar is gonna ask for a max deal and at 12 pts and 5 rebs a game not sure he’s worth it. Utah can find someone to fill that roll for less money.

Little comes back as well as Sharavjamts.

Traore will be back. If h…[Read more]

Has this been confirmed??? Where did you hear or see this info??

This is a problem if true.

The transfers portal window for Bball is

March 24th thru April 22nd

He needs to be in the office working on retaining current players and recruiting upgrades

It’s gonna take more than a coaching change to keep him around. He’s gonna want and deserves a significant raise for next season.

Thankfully IF they hire Jensen there will be significant funds to hopefully keep him around.

He’s gonna get some serious offers in the off season.

The boosters wouldn’t get behind Smith why do you think they’ll get behind Pitino???

The name of the game is NIL and that means Alex or Andre. Anything body else is a major fail

CR England trucking hauls Utah football equipment around. They are a billion dollar family owned company and current CEO Chad England is an Utah grad.

I would imagine they are a significant donor.

Harlan is not calling the shots here. He had his chance he hired his guy when he hired Smith and the boosters showed their displeasure by not supporting him with NIL.

The boosters want Miller Jensen or both. President Randle will make the ultimate decision so when it comes to basketball Harlan has been chopped off at the knees.

Utah by law for…[Read more]

People make a big deal about all of Jensen’s coaching experience and all I can say is while Alex getting all the experience coaching the game Andre was playing the game.

Alex left Utah in 2000 and had a 7 year playing career mostly overseas. Started coaching with Majerus at St Louis in 2007 and hasn’t stop coaching since.
18 coaching career at…[Read more]

Jensen has the coaching experience but Miller has greater NBA clout.

What PG wouldn’t want to play for a Coach that played the position in the NBA for 17 seasons and is 12th all time in career assists?

Miller is extremely well respected in NBA circles. The Nuggets trust him to develop their young and up and coming talent.

He’s not a loud mou…[Read more]

Yeah because every college football team in America used their 5th string QB to start games the last two seasons.

Original post doesn’t exist if Utah doesn’t suffer fluke injuries the last two seasons.

You don’t need to gut everything and start over.

This.

You wait til the season is over players bolt.

Get a new Coach named before players hit the portal.

Rip the bandaid off now

It will be a former Ute from the Majerus era. Alex Jensen or Andre Miller.

Jensen might still be holding out for an NBA HC gig but his star is not as bright as it once was. If he sees his HC future is not in the NBA he might be interested in coming back to Utah.

Miller wants the job and was ready to take it last season. The timing wasn’t r…[Read more]

Craig Smith is done at Utah. Harlan screwed the pooch with his guy.
Now he will go out and hire the guy the boosters want. The same booster that have told Harlan they will not support Smith and will support Utah with much needed NIL money when they have their guy.

Smith’s hands were tied behind his back from the jump and it only got worse when N…[Read more]

No. He burnt that bridge.

The next coach will be someone with ties to the program.

It has to happen. It will energize the fan base but most importantly will energize the NiL donors