Went over to read UFN today and wow is that place now dead.

BUT, Tacoma’s last post is so amazing, not only did it crash the site, but it has more red stars every time I look at that place.

Football is King right now. Sorry, but that is just the way of the world.

It’s not just Utah, college basketball in general has been on a slow descent for several years. That being said I agree, I’d like to see more hoops talk, especially with our biggest game of the season to date in a couple of days.

Minnesota don’t let the number of replies you get on a post lead you to believe nobody is reading it.  Proportionate to the number of visitors the site has, posters are a very small percentage.  Most people lurk.

A couple thoughts in response to Minnesota

1. Football is king. Personally I don’t give a rats ass about a potential recruit that ‘could be’ real good. People spend way too much time investing time on recruits and what school they go to.

2. Maybe there is less talk because there are more basketball games and we don’t have that week to build up to one game. There are more games and one or two of them aren’t going to make as much of a difference as one or two football games.

3. I was thinking the opposite when you talked about the Hunty being emptier than it should be. My wife got me the ticket deal for all of the conference games for Christmas and I was thinking to myself this past weekend it’s good to see the Huntsman Center fuller than it’s been in years past (I’m thinking the Giac and Boylen years). I grew up during the Majerus heyday and was a student up there at the end of Majerus/beginning of Giac. I had season tickets for about 20 years from the early 90’s through 2010 or so. While we are not at the peak years of Majerus attendance, we certainly are way better than most of the 2000’s. Like mentioned above it’s a trend around all of College Basketball, so I would say we’re doing better than most. The NBA age limit really set back college basketball.

4. While I am pleasantly surprised at the growth this years team has shown I think most everybody came into this year realizing it was going to be a rebuilding year. And yes this is one of the better ‘teams’, but this team will not be better (record wise) than 2 years ago where they made it to the sweet sixteen, and even last years 2nd round team. People don’t care about teams vs superstar players but about winning and losing. And I think most agree this year is down from the past two years.

5. I think the new basketball center will sway recruits more than attendance.

Just my two cents from one who is crazy.

Isn’t the owner going through a divorce? Maybe he’s making the asset tank deliberately thus making it less valuable. Then, once the divorce decree is final, it will be miraculously revived.

I check the site out a few times a week (only to find not really working very well) then move onto other sites (as pretty much anyone else I presume).  Very few people (if any) seem able to even login if they try and no one seems able to post.  

Could be that this site ends up growing and becoming the leading Ute fan site.   May take awhile for it to approach the volume of UFN in its glory years.

Same here

As a necrophile I must aver, I thoroughly “examined” UFN, and it’s not merely dead, it’s most sincerely dead.

It seems like a vegetable. It still has vital signs but there’s no brain activity.