Larry was an improvement over Boylen, but that wasn’t exactly a hard act to follow. He had reasonable success early on but I think he became disheartened when teams like ASU paid players to play, I think Markannen(spc?} switching to ASU in the last minute put him over the top. He seemed to become quite bitter towards college BB after that. He lost a lot of descent players to the transfer portal after that. Larry was never a great Xs and Os coach, he thrived on talent, so when he felt he couldn’t compete with the big boys unless he cheated like they did he went downhill fast.
Craig was an improvement over Larry in the Xs and Os department, but never came close to the recruiting that Larry did. Overall I’d say Larry was more successful but Smith was the better coach. Neither one was the great coach Utah needed to return to greatness.
It will be interesting to see what happens next.