Long time lurker, but decided I’d chime in. Don’t typically agree with the things that Pace posts, but in this case I do. Scalley is a great coach, but I do believe that recruiting will be negatively affected by this. We’ve been making strides the last few years in terms of closing the gap with some of the better recruiting schools in the conference, but I think this will hurt us. I don’t think Scalley is a racist, we’ve heard from lots of players that help to support this, but I also don’t think he’ll get the benefit of the doubt from recruits (and their parents) who have had limited interaction with him. We’re not trying to convince former players to come back and play for him, we’re trying to convince kids that maybe don’t know a lot about Utah to come here, and this would be one more hurdle.
Whitt knows the D and has a coaching tree of talented people that also know the D. In my opinion the loss of Scalley as a coach hurts the program less than the negative recruiting that comes with him staying. On a personal level, it sucks for Morgan, but there are consequences for mistakes (albeit further down the road in this case). He’s too talented not to get a job elsewhere, but don’t see it at Utah.
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