Would you rather

[HeyyyUguyyys]

It’s getting stale around here. I’ll go first.

Would you rather keep the Sugar bowl win (Bama), Fiesta bowl win (Pitt), and Rose bowl appearances or give them all up for Andre Miller and crew winning the national championship over Kentucky in 1998?

[Uteanooga]

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.

[Ute1990]

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.

[AlohaUte]

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.

[chinngiskhaan]

CBB just isn’t nearly as important to me as it once was. I really do not care. I haven’t even watched the national championship game (or much march madness at all) since the last time the Utes were in the tourney.

At this point, I’d trade a single Big12 football championship for that win over Kentucky because that was nearly 30 years ago now, and I was barely old enough to understand what was going on in the game.

Future success>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>distant past success.

[Trailgoat]

Bowl wins, no question. Combining the Rose Bowl games with the BB titles in your scenario, I would still choose the Fiesta and Sugar bowl wins. Football > BB all day. That said, my interest in college football continues to fizzle.

[Utes99]

I am alone here, but I’ll take the tourney championship. I’m still not over that game, and I still have a hard time seeing anything branded with the blue UK.

[TomahawkCruise]

You are not alone friend.

I’m there with you.

[TomahawkCruise]

I’ll take the basketball national title. That’s an easy call.

Out of an elite football or elite basketball program, I’ll again take basketball.

[GameForAnyFuss]

I’m well known to be a basketball-first fan and I don’t care for football as a sport quite as much. But I would still take the football wins over the hoops natty. I understand that football runs the show, and without that football success, we’d still be in the MWC today.

As a basketball fan, being in the MWC means that our absolute ceiling would be roughly what USU is: A team that win 25 games a year feasting on scrubs, gets shafted in tournament seeding, and is a perennial first-round exit to some blue blood.

I’m still hopeful that someday the school will take basketball seriously again. That, combined with being in the Big 12, means we could be a serious contender in basketball again. And we wouldn’t be in the Big 12 without those football seasons.

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