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He’s 10th in the nation in scoring – I don’t mind him missing a dunk or two if the threes keep dropping. 🙂

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It was actually hilarious to see Hunter get the start and lay one of the biggest eggs I’ve ever seen. Meanwhile, Shark comes off the bench and fills up the stat sheet. Exact opposite of the previous game.

Maybe the solution is to have them alternate starts and just expect whichever one comes off the bench to have a great game.

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On a slightly different subject, does anyone know how I can recover my hotmail account?

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There’s a valuable lesson to be learned here: The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

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Well, hell, if they’re going to do that then just get rid of the MBB program and save all of us our time, money and aggravation.

If I take that to its absurd extreme, shouldn’t we just get rid of all sports that we don’t routinely win national championships in? Because let’s face it: Football is going to win exactly as many trophies next year as basketball is this year. Same with baseball, track, women’s basketball, women’s soccer, etc. Let’s take all our money and throw it at skiing and gymnastics.

There has to be more to the whole college sports thing than just winning, right?

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I tend to think you’re right. Sure, we can fire Craig…but what happens next? Do we really think the university is going to suddenly shell out the money and hire a home run coach? And do we think the next coach is going to suddenly uncover a whole bunch of NIL money to buy better players? Or do we think he’ll be such a great recruiter that he’ll convince good players to not take NIL money elsewhere and play for Utah for free instead?

We’ve put all our eggs in the football basket. Basketball is not going to get much better until that changes…regardless of who the coach is.

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And in the same vein, the mormon Utah fans will read my post and get their garments in a twist because what I said is true

I’m a Mormon Utah fan. I read your post. What you said isn’t true.

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Yeah there were more than a few, and most of them were more than a little ambitious. Seems like there’s some gloryhunting going on against these crap teams we’ve been playing lately. It’s tempting to try to get on SC Top 10 when you’re already up by 35.

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Meh, I appreciate it but it’s OK. I don’t base my self esteem on my utehump vote count. Since I’ve had 2 kids play NCAA sports, my perspective on what college sports are really about is probably different from most peoples’ perspectives. To me, college sports are more about developing student-athletes into adults and teaching them skills that will serve them well in life…and less about wins and entertaining fans. And that different perspective means I have a different perspective on things like the portal, which some people aren’t going to like. And that’s fine.

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If your boss doesn’t think you are worth paying attention to, just stick it out anyway? Come on. You don’t believe that, and you wouldn’t tell your kid that either.

Funny you should mention that. I do have a kid playing an NCAA sport right now (not at Utah), and he’s thinking of transferring. Some issues with the team and with his playing time. And yes, I’ve advised him to stick it out, to not give up, to finish what he’s started, to not quit, and to not go back on his commitment. Because personally I think it’s more important that he learns those lessons than he gets a few more minutes playing a game.

will he listen to me? Maybe, maybe not. If he goes into the portal I’ll support him. But I’ve said my piece.

If that makes me a bad parent in your eyes…well, I guess I’ll have to live with that.

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