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You never know…Utah State has lost their head coach at the end of the previous two seasons. Right now, they stand at 24-5, even after last night’s blowout loss to Boise State, with another NCAA trip in their future. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Jerrod Calhoun hired away this offseason and Smith make a return trip to Logan. Remember, you…[Read more]

Yep…that’s his niche. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if he ends up somewhere like the Missouri Valley Conference and does well.

Personally, I can see Smith getting picked up by a G5 team and once again having success, to include return trips to the NCAAs. He just doesn’t have what it takes to be a consistent winner at a P4 program.

I was being ironic for the most part. I noticed a few people on the site, after Smith got fired, saying words to the effect of “watch the team play better now.” Not gonna happen…and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Utah lose every game remaining on their schedule.

Interesting point about Larry being bitter over losing players to cheating programs. I never considered that, but I could see it. You bust your ass sweet talking and sucking up the kid and the parents, you are already fighting a difficult battle to try to get kids to want to come to Utah, then you lose out because some crooked program drops some…[Read more]

Throw out all the stats, past success, recruiting etc and just focus on the eye test. I’ve been watching Utah basketball since Jack Gardner days. Gardner, Pimm, Foster and Majerus all had players that fit team roles and played team basketball. Role players set picks got rebounds and played solid defense and set up the scorers.

From Majerus to c…[Read more]

Larry was an improvement over Boylen, but that wasn’t exactly a hard act to follow. He had reasonable success early on but I think he became disheartened when teams like ASU paid players to play, I think Markannen(spc?} switching to ASU in the last minute put him over the top. He seemed to become quite bitter towards college BB after that. He lost…[Read more]

I can’t wait for there to be a new governance model for college sports. It’s the wild west right now.

Yeah, I think that’s correct. With NIL system and the transfer portal, it’s essentially unlimited free agency every year without contracts. So you almost need to think about it that way and manage it as a business. Which is another place I think Craig went wrong, you have to treat the players like adults at a minimum, if not outright…[Read more]

The team is what it is. They’ve definitely over performed and that reflects well, but they are very flawed. The free throw thing is inexcusable.

Nothing will change this season. The hope is that the new coach will put the team on the right trajectory.

Parenthetical, I’ll add, I wonder if CBB teams will consider what North Carolina is doing in…[Read more]

Did we really expect things to change? We still have the caliber of players that we were willing to pay for last offseason.

KD finally unleashed.

Wow I didn’t know that. RED FLAG.

Rick, none of what you posted proves that Larry was a better coach or even as good a coach as Smith. All you really did is copy and paste stats. Now, if you’d have thrown some analytics in there, then maybe we could have a conversation. I for sure completely believe that Larry was a better recruiter but a much crappier Xs and Os guy than Smith.…[Read more]

I just got back into the country and restarted a news feed. I can’t believe we have a chance to upgrade our Men’s BB program to Alex Jensen. That and even the possibility that Andre Miller would help out would be almost like having Rick come back. I hope Utah has financial resources to make this all happen.

I don’t know, and neither does anyone else until we see the results of the move (the subsequent hire, and that person’s success as HC).

I’m not one that wants to die on that hill. All I’ll say is that from my perspective, I thought Larry was a shitty X’s & O’s coach. Too many times we just looked lost on end of play situations, in-game adjustments were minimal, and rarely did we get good looks off of inbound plays. From what I’ve seen, it seemed like Smith did a better job in…[Read more]

I dare say that parts of my anatomy respond favorably to that idea…