TomahawkCruise

I agree with you on being grateful to departing players. I will always be appreciative of players who put on the Utah jersey and do their best. That includes The Shark.

I agree a bit less with your assessment of our recruiting outlook.

Terrence Brown Jr was a fantastic prospect in the portal who shows every indication that he will be very good…[Read more]

Three other targets I really like right now are:

Kaylon Mason
Naas Cunningham
Will McClendon

Plus I’m sure there are a number of players we don’t know about.

We were able to snag Terrence Brown Jr pretty damn fast, so that indicates at least some talent in selling the opportunities Utah can offer.

I wouldn’t get too concerned yet about incoming transfers. We have one but there are still a lot of targets Utah is engaging with, and some of those will be coming.

I never like to use them as any frame of reference, but we will all remember that Kevin Young wasn’t hired last year until April 16 and he also didn’t go to Provo until after the Suns…[Read more]

Actually, that’s not a bad alignment with tax season. Use your refund to pay for the tickets.

Unless you owe, of course. But of the 30 years I’ve been working, I’ve only owed one time.

Yeah it’s tough to come to a conclusion on whether Larry was a good coach or not. If you look at his record, it looks pretty good. Most seasons he won 20+ games, but for some reason some of those weren’t good enough for a tourney bid.

His last 2 seasons were pretty mediocre and fan apathy took hold. It is strange that he wasn’t able to continue…[Read more]

He was one of the top scorers in the portal, so it’s probably safe to assume that most of the programs that contacted him offered.

In general, probably most teams that contact players in the portal do so with an offer in mind.

Brown had a ton of offers from big programs.

Baylor
Boston College
Butler
Clemson
Colorado
Creighton
Florida State
Memphis
Mississippi State
Murray State
Ole Miss
Providence
Seton Hall
SMU
TCU
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington State
West Virginia

That right there shows Utah can land some big fish.

A lot of players would see Utah as a good opportunity. I don’t think it would be very difficult to sell prospects on playing in SLC.

A high major team in one of the best leagues with the best visibility where you don’t have to compete with a bunch of other blue chippers, like you would at Kansas, Houston and Arizona.

That, plus a staff replete…[Read more]

Saw that.

It’s so interesting how portal timing works. Just makes you wonder what goes into it.

Wahlin, Little, Lovering and Erickson all jumped in pretty quickly, but Keller and Dawes waited a little. Ausar and Sharavjamts still haven’t jumped in, but they probably will at some point.

If Keller can play more like he did vs Butler, I’d be much more interested in keeping him. I guess we’ll just have to trust Jensen and his guys to make the right call on whether he’s worth keeping and developing.

I don’t think he is. None of the portal sites list him there and there’s no news anywhere saying he’s jumped in.

He still has plenty of time to do it, but he hasn’t yet. Just makes me wonder if he really does want to leave. It feels kind of like Deivon last year. He didn’t enter the portal until late in the window.

Ausar sure did improve his free throw shooting. Proud of him for that. I’d love to have him stay if he wants to, but I agree that we can’t overpay him.

Apart from Dawes bring the #1 priority, id say #2 is bringing in a GOOD point guard, someone who is smart and runs the floor well and be the one the offense runs through. All successful teams have…[Read more]

Utah getting him to exit the portal so quickly indicates that Utah was willing to give him what he asked for, which almost certainly means Utah’s NIL coffees are much improved.

So glad KD will be back in a Utah uniform!

I was wondering about his jersey number. I just thought it was Vranes.

One thing working in our favor is KD grew up a Ute fan. Hopefully that will be enough to persuade him to stay.

The NIL/portal system will equalize soon and there will be more structure.

In the meantime, I have no contempt whatsoever for players who are trying to maximize what they can get in the small window of time they have to get it. The market forces working to take players from Utah will also benefit by bringing players to Utah. And if Utah is…[Read more]

I care about basketball because I love the game and I love my school. Which means I have a vested interest in watching them play. I’m not a fairweather fan who only bothers to show his face when the team is good. There are already way too many of those types in the Utah base.

If the football team continued to struggle like they did last year,…[Read more]

Not only that, Butler was without its best player.

There was absolutely positively no excuse for losing to a team like that – ESPECIALLY after maintaining a solid lead all game long and then being up double digits in the last 13 minutes.

Several times when we were up 10 or 11 points we got stops on the other end and had multiple opportunities to…[Read more]