utefansince79

I received an email thanking me for loyalty, energy, support, etc. in the past which included a new pricing map. Implied renewal information would come out in a few weeks.

Brutal price increase for some of us. Would be nice to have a few respectable pre-season opponents.

Wish the Cal Poly game was a bit later as September games under the lights are usually quite pleasant, but 4PM is usually much better than high noon that time of the year.

Said a few times that USC and Utah had many memorable exciting close games, lots of them settled in the closing seconds, with both teams enjoying their share of being on the happy side of the scoreboard.

Sadly may not see them face each other again for some time.

While 2 teams with rather low odds of being drawn (Mavs about 1.5% and Spurs about 6%) got first couple picks, it really wasn’t that unlikely for Jazz to not pull out at all. (Something like 47%).

Tanking is foolishly optimistic and rather bad mathematics.

Not going to waste any time at all watching what was once an entertaining product back in…[Read more]

Still annoys me that it wasn’t a ‘football play’ but rather an unnecessary deliberate attempt to put him out of the game.

2 things Utah has done very well over the years

1. Recruit players ‘under the radar’ and develop them over a few years into great contributors, often ready to play on Sunday.

2. Players that play here a few years, get a feel for a ‘family’ type atmosphere and bond together as a unit.

NIL sort of ruins both of these. A rising star heads to…[Read more]

Great athlete, but certainly not lacking in confidence.

May be in for a rude awakening (and perhaps get a bit of humility) when he starts playing in the pros.

Makes sense to recruit and offer great local LDS athletes, even if they indicate they want to serve a mission (usually after playing one year).

Of course in the NIL $$$$$ era, far fewer players are playing their entire career with one school.

Can’t remember the last time I made use of the ignore feature on this board but felt that was the sensible thing to do in this situation.

My interactions with visiting fans from our new conference foes including Baylor, TCU, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and others have been nothing but pleasant. Visiting fans who visit the Hunty and Rice-Eccles will realize the horror stories they have heard from Zoobs are not accurate at all.

ALL CAPS !?!?!? Posting from a VIC20 are we?

Said a few times, going from MWC to PAC was a massive upgrade. From PAC to Big12 was a drop off in football, but arguably a small upgrade in hoops.

Biggest issue I have is teams are so spread out and the championship venues are on longer a 6 hours drive down I-15 to Sin City. Of course potentially going to Big10 just puts us with many teams…[Read more]

Social media brings out the very worst qualities in many people.

I lived through a 2-19 stretch and survived (and it was not a dream).

I too feel the worst part of NIL is a school can develop a promising young player, investing coaching and other resources into his improvement, then have a big name team with lots of NIL cash grab him away.

Will always remember Hunter’s OT trey against his former team to help us beat BYU and will remember his work ethnic. Had some rough games, but always played with maximum effort. Wish him well.

Given he’ll very likely be starting and getting consistent minutes, will be a major contributor and an exciting part of next year’s team.

100s or 1000s of energetic local fans creates a great atmosphere (as seen locally in Provo and Logan).

One single fan trying to make a difference stands out and can appear to some (not all) to be foolish but give the man credit for his effort.

If just a modest 1% of our student body were to show up and act like him every home game……

Really hope Alex (with help of NIL $$$$) can encourage Dawes to stay. Unfortunate that for some reason former Coach Smith didn’t give him the consistent minutes he deserved.