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[Minnesota Ute]

Hate to say it, but Pele lost that game for them. His defense was so bad my wife was calling him out. On top of that he couldn’t throw a brick in the ocean.

[Minnesota Ute]

I personally had a lot of heartburn for the money that college sports was generating on the backs of adults who couldn’t share in the profit. That said, professional sports realized long ago that contracts mattered for stability of the league and gradually along the way the players bargained for free agency to provide a balance.
The problem with NIL is it is like unlimited free agency all the time. There are no caps, no contracts, and not much for rules to speak of. I get, and agree, that the athletes deserved to get paid, but the NCAA has screwed this up royally and are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. The NIL money will dry up when the eyeballs disappear, then what have you got?

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I guess I just don’t see it. My prediction is Pope washes out at Kentucky fast. Their expectations are off the charts and I can’t see an Ex-BYU Coach being dirty enough to fulfill their lust, nor the right fit to coach the semi-pro level of athletes that Kentucky gets that certainly was not what he had at BYU.

As for the incoming coach, totally agree with the post below. Boylen came from NBA and showed no ability to navigate that transition. I’ll believe it when I see it, but at least for the moment, while I’m profoundly disappointed with this season, I still think we’ll be in better shape than them next year.

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Here is my only Devil’s advocate argument, the NIT is not the 67th best team in the land. You have to exclude many automatic qualifiers and instead compare Utah against many mid-tier teams that get in from ACC Big East, B10 etc, To me, the good news (if we can win one or two roadies to end the year), is an acknowledgement that we should have been there. Not complaining that we didn’t get picked, we did that to ourselves, but that had we played to our potential (according to what we are seeing, albeit at home…) we would have been there, and would have competed with most of the teams in the tourney. So it’s still fun to root for that validation, such as it is…

It’s just a shame that it’s in a year when so many opted out. 🙁

[Minnesota Ute]

It was the AZ game. Pretty important game to have such a conflict of interest.

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Yeah we always listen to ESPN700 app synced with TV, and Bill was right on him even before he T’d up Smith.
He was the same guy that screwed us in one of our home games coming down the stretch. Can’t remember now which, but it was the one where the other team was in double bonus in first half with only a handful of fouls themselves.

[Minnesota Ute]

His head just didn’t seem in it the last couple of games. I hope that’s not what’s going on because him and Lovering could be really good together next year. 🙁

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Every game I’ve tuned into this year, they lost. So I was committed to not tuning in, but wife twisted my arm. When I turned it on, we had around a 10pt lead, when I turned it off and went to bed, we were down 2. I was really hoping that my jinx could be undone by tuning out, but apparently it wasn’t. Sorry… I let the whole team down. 🙁

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As a good buddy of mine always says, it’s like kissing your sister. (I don’t have a sister, so I wouldn’t know. But he is married to his cousin so… not really but that’s the running joke.)

[Minnesota Ute]

And if we did both, we’d probably be a 6 or 7 seed. But alas they did none of the above and sadly underperformed what could have been a really good year. I’m profoundly disappointed and the buck stops with Uncle Fester.