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Harlan’s a fundraiser and that’s about it. He should stay on in a fundraising capacity and earn a commission on funds raised. He’s not a good ‘decision maker’ or savvy businessman, which is what the AD need to be in this new era of NIL. FB and MBB are the straw that stirs the drink and they are now semi-pro/pro teams and need to be managed as such. His background is old school college athletics–schmooze the boosters, make sure the ski team has enough equipment, find a home/away opponent for 5 years in the future and so forth. Building a professional sports franchise? Not so much.

Its going to take someone not from academia but the business world–Football hired a chief revenue officer or whatever–that’s where things are going. Its about building a business at this juncture; The Jazz suck but they still get butts in seats–their avg attendance outdraws the Warriors. Thats what pro teams/leagues do–they know they can’t be all Yankees/Dodgers/Lakers big names and dynasties but still have to attract interest and sell tix–that takes a different skillset than having luncheons with boosters and hiring new swimming coaches.

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Yea, this no bueno. Im guessing he’s getting some offers and so begins the highest bidder game. The free market is fully taking hold and Whitt was right–soon the top 25 teams will just reflect the top 25 spending NIL programs…

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Hard to put aside the ‘childish behavior after the BYU game.’ It made national news and re-enforced negative stereotypes of Utes fans (and by extension the University)–we’re entitled, hate our league etc.–which may be true–but not something your AD should want to reinforce as a major representative of the University.

Ive always seen him as an empty suit, never had much opinion until his charade after the game, I lost all respect for the dude. Half his job is to represent the U in a positive light nationally–he didn’t even give an apology and try to change the narrative.

He and Randall were the ones behind the $50M valuation–hard to know to what extent that had an effect on things collapsing, but certainly didn’t help.

Just don’t see much growth in the gameday experience or media stuff like im seeing at other major programs. Cant really give him credit or blame for how teams do on the field, he’s really more big picture, representing the U and major hires–C. Smith TBD. Give him a B for his admin work, and F for his being a rep of the U.

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It’s like all of a sudden someone turned on the lights and they all just scurried out from under the fridge. Life was so much better before the infestation.

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Zoobs are weirdos, confirmed

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From your posts its clear you’re a BYU fan–all your posts are trying to create FUD, you called us ‘Ute Nation’ Get out of your mom’s basement and do something with your life, homie.

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The picture is becomming clearer and clearer; the past 2 years werent just bad injury luck–they were poorly managed and coached. The inability to have a contingency for your most important position is baffling, he looks lost, time for fresh blood–we’re in a death spiral, you dont keep the same approach and expect different results

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I lol’d to this

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I think there’s a lot of angst as the landscape is changing rapidly in CFB and the program really needs solid leadership now more than ever.

Its clear Whitt’s a legend, just his coaching style doesn’t work as well with today’s NIL/Portal era. Scalley seems to be a good fit for the new era and playbooks need to be learned in 3 months, not 3 years. We had 2 years to adapt and improvise and didn’t, and the results showed. I think that’s why many are wanting to move on to MS sooner rather than later. The new OC seems like a good add, so Im not as anxious for change as I was a week ago–but its still time.

My only request is a tad more transparency up on the hill. Heck we still have no official word on Whitt’s official status–Im sure recruits and insiders know, we can all assume, but part of leading the program is being transparent–obviously not to the extent of giving out game plans but maybe reassuring the fans to some degree. I mean fans are a large part of the program–if we don’t show up/financially support, there is no program. So no sense in leaving us in the dark this much

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This was the most baffling thing of the night for me. Lohner has already blocked at least 1 FG this season, he’s 6-8 and can jump, he’s been out there on most FG attempts. On a 44 yard FG the trajecetory is lower than most, why on earth was he not out there like he usually is sticking a hand up?

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