[NashvilleTNUteFan]

I echo pretty much all of what you said. It sucks to care about something so much and have zero control over it and have to witness a dumpster fire. Such is the life of a fanatic. It’s really quite strange when you think about it. As I’ve gotten older I’ve definitely been able to better detach my emotions and how I act with others from how my sports teams perform, and I feel very weird even typing this out because it’s getting deeper than I intended.

Maybe Utah never will be good at basketball again. And maybe, they find a great coach that can recruit and turn things around in a big way. The off-chance of that is what keeps me coming back for more punishment as you put it

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

To take #2 further, I’m not sure how multi-team tie breakers work with seeding but it’s very plausible that there could be a 5-way tie for the 5th seed with 5 teams at 9-11. Don’t care enough to try and figure out where we would shake out in that scenario but considering we’ve lost at least one game to everyone except UCLA and Cal, I’m guessing that tie breaker would not be kind to us. We could end up as the 9 seed. Unreal

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

In no way shape or form am I making excuses for Smith or this team. I woke up as disgusted as I was last night. But, it honestly seems like a small portion of our absurdly bad road performances is because teams who are not good play super well when they play us. Oregon state has sucked all year outside of Jordan pope, and some guy named Bilbo pops off and other guys who average like 5 PPG score well into double figures. Are we really that bad at defense on the road, or is there some element of bad luck to this? Just trying to make some kind of sense of what I saw last night and what I’ve seen all year.

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

Shockingly, a top 4 seed in the conference tourney is very much within reach. The best path to that is a Colorado win tonight over Oregon and obviously us sweeping the road trip. If us and Colorado win tonight, the game on Saturday effectively becomes a play-in for the 4 seed. Beating Oregon on the road will be a tall task, not sure we’ve ever beaten them on their home floor that I can remember.

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

Love it, thanks for sharing! The renderings for the stadium look awesome

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

This team is just absolutely brutal to watch on the road. I actually was looking forward to watching that game last night with it being a must-win game for both teams tourney hopes, man what a dud. I have my doubts about Craig. I don’t even know what to think about this team at this point. But I do know that whatever momentum was generated within the fan base this year, we’ll see on Thursday how quickly that vanished. And how can you really blame the fans, it’s not a good product right now.

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

We look horrible so far. This team just doesn’t have it on the road. Its very puzzling

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

There was one other positive thing about this season that I should mention: getting to watch Deivon play. Man is he electric. His decision making at times was a little questionable but all in all, he brought an element to this team we haven’t seen since Delon Wright. He was so fun to watch this year. I just wish him and Carlson had more help. They had virtually none outside of a few hot games from Madsen (which seems to be his ceiling). If what some have said is true about Deivon having eligibility left to return next year, that alone may be enough to get me out to the games again next year

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

I like the positivity UtesRule, but I have to disagree with you on this season being a positive step forward. In my opinion, this season was a failure if not for one reason: we got worse as the season went on and not better. That’s a terrible reflection on the leadership of the program. And had we not gotten lucky with the NCAA ruling that allowed Deivon to play risk-free, it would’ve been that much uglier. And as has been stated, the pac is a weak basketball conference this year and we likely will end with a sub .500 conference record. There’s nothing positive for me that came out of this season, the only redeeming thing that could happen is Carlson gets a chance at the NBA because of how well he played this year for the majority of the year. I will always appreciate what he did for this program.

[NashvilleTNUteFan]

This is a fair point. I suppose we may be able to pull off a couple big wins at home, we play well at home. But we are going to get crucified on the road. Can you imagine the outcome playing in Allen Fieldhouse if we can’t beat Oregon state with 100 people in the crowd? Makes me ill thinking about it

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