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I wish I had the same rosy outlook. This game just shone a spotlight on all the things wrong with the team. With enough talent, you can mask a general lack of fundamentals, but we don’t have that.

Turnovers, UO second chance points, offensive rebounds, 60% FT shooting, poor shot selection, poor offensive executuion… The only thing this team…[Read more]

Please someone explain to me why we are gnashing teeth over Nate Johnson. The Utes are 2x champs with Rising, trending up, and generally killing it. I get that he’s a good player, but Nate hasn’t really contributed much so far. Players come and go…

If Nate Johnson was some kind of savior/superstar type, he’d have beat out Cam for the…[Read more]

My main criticism was the following situation:
Utes down 10 points with 9 minutes on the clock. On first, second, and third down, the clock is running, and the Utes use up the ENTIRE play clock. Why are we not snapping the ball with 20 seconds on the clock? Are we so afraid of their offense that we are going to try to run a 7 minute drive and…[Read more]

Rick, I don’t know what you are smoking but Larry’s teams haven’t been a win or two away from the tournament since 2018. Since then:
2019 17-14
2020 16-15
2021 12-15

Even if Lohner added a few wins, none of those teams were going to sniff the Dance.

The Colorad9 game will be, as Bill Walton would say, “a celebration of life.”

Holy shit. That’s one heavy dude.

I have a couple of thoughts on this.

1. When playing a bad team, you shouldn’t be in a position to lose because of 2 turnovers.
2. UW scored on their last 4 possessions.
3. This result would be acceptable if it wasn’t the exact same script, time after time after time after time. This result is what Larry has prepared this team – nay, this…[Read more]

Let’s examine Larry’s shortcomings:

1. He loses players – consistently.
2. His teams underachieve. Forget the performance vs. the media poll – that means nothing. Look at all the times he’s lost in the first round of the PAC 12 tourney, even when he had the higher seed. Additionally, the couple of his teams that made the dance (like a…[Read more]

There is very little evidence of Coach knowing what he’s doing.

Here’s my view. He got to Utah and scored a few huge recruits early on. That lead him to think he could get blue-chip recruits, which, without criminally cheating like USC and Arizona, he was never going to get. Meanwhile, he can’t keep the players he does land, so he’s always…[Read more]

All blame leads back to Larry. Your argument is that you can’t blame them because they haven’t been together, but Larry is to blame for that because he can’t retain players. So he’s creating his own mediocrity.

Also, Larry’s teams, even with great players (Poeltl, Wright and Kuzma on the same team) have grossly underperformed. That team lost…[Read more]

Gach is a guard who can’t handle the ball or make decisions. He’s a poor man’s Bryant Markson.

Larry has no idea how to coach decent fundamentals. His teams just don’t play good basketball.

At this point, getting into the CBI is a very lofty goal.

I think the lack of anyone complaining about this team says a lot about where we are as a fan base. Down 15, more turnovers than shots…
And nobody complains, which means, this is what our fanbase expects.

Someone on Twitter said you can keep them away by making your yard look like an endzone.

They are all on the road at their rival’s places too, which increases the intrigue. Go Auburn, Go OK State, Go whoever Minnesota is playing!

I agree with your argument, except the Penn State part – they have two losses and that’s that.

The trouble with Oklahoma is that the committee can put them in and say, “see, we put in a team from the west.”

Nothing would make me happier than an Alabama loss. They have one of the most insufferable fan bases in the world. Their main argument for getting into the playoff is “We should get in because it says Alabama on our jerseys.”