MauchDawgUte

I also liked Barefield when his head was right. He had some serious skills. As just a great person, you can’t beat DuBois either.

Larry had many significantly talented guards besides Delon. Below is a list of the more talented of his recruits but go down that list and tell me you would pass on most of them over the guards we currently have on our roster.

Taylor
DuBois
Van Dyke
Ogbe
Tucker
Isaiah Wright
Bonam
Barefield
Bibbins
Bealer
Rylan…[Read more]

I’m up for a new poll. We usually do a season record prediction poll in the offseason.

I changed your “X” link to a twitter link. X links won’t embed.

That works out well in terms of bye weeks.

Good and bad. Getting 8 wins with the players that were available was very good. The way the QB situation was handled was completely botched.

They way I see it is that most of our team’ issues are coaching related. I will grant you that some of our issues are due to lack of athleticism but then that points to recruiting. Poor defense. Awful free throw shooting. Horrible road performances. Pretty much everything you can think of point to coaching. If a coach like Bill Self or Duke’s…[Read more]

Consistent winning programs? Smith was at Utah State for a cup of coffee using other coaches recruits. I think you are way too generous with your assessment of Smith. I love how you say Larry underperformed with NBA talent. How did that NBA talent get here in the first place? Right now, the only NBA talent, and it is marginal at best, on this…[Read more]

You are telling me that in Larry’s first three seasons he had a more talented roster than Smith has had? Do you remember Larry’s roster his first two seasons? No way and Smith’s best player was a Larry recruit.

What I see is a team that does not play decent perimeter defense. They are horrible free-throw shooters. They get aggressively out…[Read more]

I keep hearing blanket statements that Smith is a much better coach than Larry. Can anyone give me clear, on the court, evidence that objectively proves this assertion?

That was one poorly officiated game. Pili got hammered on her last two possessions in regulation! Some of the play stoppages were also ridiculous. I am not usually a conspiracy theorist when it comes to refs but this one seemed very suspicious to me how the calls almost universally favored UCLA down the stretch in regulation. Some of the “and…[Read more]

In order for me to answer this, I would need to know what teams are actually in the Big12. I’m sure I can find a list somewhere.

I will have a tough time supporting a coach, any coach, that doesn’t play his best players. It is painfully obvious who are the 5 best players for Utah. They have been the starters these past two games. As the season moves closer to post season tournament time, you must tighten your rotations and give your best players the majority of the…[Read more]

Moved from Men’s Basketball category to Women’s.

Moved from women’s basketball category to men’s.

I love seeing all of the posts about “missing two starters.” Am I the only one here that thinks that if those two starters come back and start for this team over those that replaced them that this team will take a huge step backwards? Is there some bizarro world where Devian Smith is NOT a better player than Rollie that I am not privy too? Or…[Read more]

You noticed! Waiting for someone to spot that!

The pow afterburner just fired!