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Bowl wins. They completely changed the course of the university, not only for football, but all athletics and even most everything else. Increase in interest in the school and applications, huge infrastructure investment, etc.

Since Utah has an NCAA championship and an NIT championship in basketball, I would keep the bowl wins. However, I would trade them for a legitimate NCAA football championship.

Nice one.

I’ll keep the bowl wins.

Would you rather have an elite football or basketball program?
I’ll take football.

Would you rather have an elite academic university or a university with elite athletics?
I’ll take the academics.

If we are going to dream of glory- to me that would be an incredible team playing in front 16,000 rocking fans.

It’s not really Harlan or Taylor’s fault, as the price increase isn’t really that much of a factor to me. Yes, the tickets are more expensive, but what isn’t these days?

While all the conference realignment and NIL nonsense has certainly diminished my interest in college sports in general, the biggest contributing factor towards not renewing is…[Read more]

We do Cheese and Oil Fondue every Valentines Day. Its fun and a family thing. My wife and I aren’t too into valentines day. So we just do this with the kids.

As long as they keep selling out games I don’t think they really care.

Quite a few of you have mentioned that you have cancelled or will cancel. Question, have you let Harlan or President Taylor know? I think you should. I’ve sent both emails. But I’ve seen others do it on Twitter. If they don’t know, they won’t figure it out until it’s too late and the programs suffers.

I’ve been there. Had to wait 13 months.

Yeah listen, I’ve had MBB season tickets since the 19-20 season and those numbers are nowhere close to the facts on the ground. It’s a historical truth that teams of all stripes and sports regularly cook their attendance numbers to appear to be better than what they actually are. And this is particularly true of teams with low attendance…[Read more]

Street taco kit from Costco. Very romantic I know.

Yeah for some reason attendance at the JMHC is never good when we’re in the NIT. It drops significantly from the regular season average. I’ve never been able to figure that out.

During the 2023-24 regular season, the JMHC had between 7,000 and 9,000 for every game (sometimes a little more). But then when the NIT came around, attendance collapsed…[Read more]

Thank you, and I appreciate your thoughts and points on this subject as well.

Yeah I really don’t have a good idea of what Utah’s donor situation looks like. I imagine there are some deep pocketed supporters like the Huntsmans and Sorensens and Eccleses, but I’m not sure how many are looking to shell out for athletic purposes like NIL. Obviously…[Read more]

I think that’s a solid example.

To dig into the data a little more, here are Utah’s home attendance figures since Smith was hired in 2021:

Season/Total Attendance/Avg Attendance/Conf Rank
21-22: 118,351 / 7,397 (4th in P12)
22-23: 114,047 / 6,709 (6th in P12)
23:24: 140,431 / 8,777 (2nd in P12)
24-25: 117,145 / 7,810 (8th in XII)

Here are the…[Read more]

Mine went up 43% last year. Cancelled my 4 seats after 19 years. No regrets. Ended up going to the two games I could actually attend, that I wanted to attend, with who I could bring with me with secondary market tickets. I bought three total tickets. Which means if I renewed, I would’ve been trying to sell or begging people to use 21 tickets. No t…[Read more]

It’s funny…the reality is that fans have all of the power but are always seen as a cash cow or the “Bank of Fan.”

You could be right about whether 8,000 people will show up if the team continues to be like it’s been, but I myself doubt it. Even with how mediocre we’ve been over the last few years, we still have consistently turned out between 5,000 and 8,000 fans for every home game. I think we could count on that to continue at the very least, if we had a…[Read more]

Bingo.

If you want to get the Runnin Ute’s mojo back- get a rock-star coach and enough NIL $ to field an elite roster.

The Hunty would rock again.

The last game I attended was vs Iowa in the NIT. My son asked if we were going to see Caitlin Clark play and I said “we are watching the men play son.” He seemed disappointed.

We arrived about 10 min late and the Hunty was so empty they were giving away tiks for free. No kidding. Our group had 11 people and when we tried to pay they said “Don’t…[Read more]