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…[Read more]

I think today I’m going to avoid my usual criticizing and just enjoy the win. There are obviously areas where we can still improve, but there are no perfectly executing teams in college BB. We just beat the #17 team in the country! And it was a fun game – very entertaining. Kudos to the Kansas fans – they travel well. And they’re really into their…[Read more]

Haha…oops. I meant 13th.

My wife and I celebrate Valentine’s Day on the 14th. Food is cheap and the restaurants are empty.

It’s just a random day, so we created our own random day.

Off campus arenas are not ideal in most cases, but I’m not sure if that’s true in our case. The U is poorly located with respect to how our major roadways are laid out in the valley. Did you ever notice that our belt route is only 3/4 of a circle, and the missing 1/4 is right where the U is? It would be a different story if the belt route actually…[Read more]

This is probably more of a function of having a whole bunch of stiffs on the team as anything else. There’s not a single guy on the team whose play screams “I have to be out there if we’re going to be successful.” That means every minute is up for grabs for any player.

This, of course, goes back to our dismal recruiting. And that, of course, goes…[Read more]

He was mouthing off after a no-call. Too bad – he was playing really well until then. The tech was his 2nd personal so he had to sit the rest of the half. Craig pulled him right away and gave him a long talking-to. Ezra didn’t seem to be in the right headspace the entire rest of the game.

Ezra is a fun but frustrating player to watch. He’ll look…[Read more]

We won with 19 turnovers because we shot well. Utah made a conscious effort to get looks for Gabe (lots of high screens, etc.) and it paid off. He found his shooting touch, especially as the game wore on, and got to the rim and drew fouls. Unlike the rest of the team, Gabe is nails from the line. Plus Keanu and Ezra (until he got into foul…[Read more]

There’s a timeout and commercials seemingly every 4 possessions.

Serious question: Have you watched a football game lately?

Seems to me we’re getting almost exactly what we’re willing to pay for. We have an administration that doesn’t care, a fan base that doesn’t care, and no donors to speak of. And those things have caused us to have a bad coach and bad players.

I’m not sure why we would expect the results to be different than the ones we’re getting.

Yay, a political post. Our journey towards becoming utefans.net is nearly complete!

I missed the game because I was working. Did we win? 😉

I chuckle at any poll that contains the words “way too early”. Even the title is admitting that the poll (and polls are flawed no matter what) is basically BS.

It would be like writing a chemistry paper with the words “junk science” in the title.

I like the old style of basketball, but – all things being equal – I’d still watch a game of new-style basketball over a football game.

Roatan, Honduras.

Thank me later.

How can Utah make every home game a hostile environment like the BYU game?

Based on the responses I read here, the answer is “change it over to a football game”.

Let’s face it: There are simply very few of us who like basketball as a sport.

They practically do that already. I have two lower bowl season tickets and they cost me less than a single game ticket for football. Sorry, price is not the issue.

It’s interesting how our recent win streak has come about as we’ve gotten more aggressive inside and made a conscious effort to get the ball into the low block. Through most of the non-conference schedule we lived and died by the three – we were the top 3-point team in the country for a while. Now, obviously it really helped our inside presence…[Read more]

Good answer…thanks.

I agree with everything you said. But you didn’t answer my question. Do you still invest in going to football games despite our passing percentage being 103rd in D1 this past season? And if yes, why the difference?

I’m not trying to noodle you…I’m just curious about how fan psychology works and this is a particularly interesting one to me.