The Miami Ute

I truly your commentary but there’s absolutely no way that Carlson is a superstar headed to the NBA. He’s not even going to get drafted and, if he wants to play in the NBA, it’ll have to be after he makes his bones overseas or in the G-League. Most scouting reports have him anywhere between the 200 to 300 best prospect of the 2024 draft.

If the rest of the season continues to go downhill and the Utes don’t make a coaching change, the only time the Huntsman will be half full is when we play BYU. And it’ll be full of BYU fans.

See Tanny, we’re in agreement again. I’ve had season tickets for the last few years but I’m certainly not reupping next season if Smith stays around. As I’ve said, I’ve seen enough to know that Utah, under his leadership, will never come close to even the heights that Coach K took it to. As many have said on this site, it’s hard to see how Utah…[Read more]

Jensen has minimal experience as a head coach and has been out of the college game for well over a decade. Not saying that he wouldn’t be a good fit or excel. Just that, once again, you’re rolling the dice.

Well, if you can’t recruit then you have no business being a head MBB coach at a P4 university.

But nobody sucks harder than Craig Smith’s Utes.

The buyout is less than $6M. Better to buy him out than go through a season with an empty Huntsman and end up with an 8-25 record in the Big 12.

My guess is that it’ll hit home for Harlan when the Bay Area schools come to town and the only people in the stands are family and friends.

I don’t know how Smith can retain his job. He’s lost all credibility and fan apathy is about to become a thing again.

No matter the end result of this game, you can stick a fork on this program, this roster, and this coaching staff. They’re all done. This team is as irrelevant today as it was when Krystkowiak was fired.

Oh, and then there’s this… UCLA won again tonight. Since the Utes demolished them 90-44, the Bruins have won eight of their last nine games. The only defeat in that period has been a one point loss to Arizona. I have to imagine that UCLA is going to have something pretty special prepared for Utah when they play on Saturday.

I would say it’s the HC’s job to get talent. Three years in, there’s no one Smith can blame or point the finger to if his team is underachieving. I could understand it if the team suffered an epidemic of injuries but that hasn’t been the case. Worster isn’t that talented that the entire team collapses in his absence.

I’m really starting to wonder if Smith has lost this team. This group is just not executing.

Based on what I’ve seeing, the Utes need to go 5-2, with the losses being at Colorado and Oregon, and win a game or two in the PAC tournament to feel good about making the postseason. Anything less than that, and it’s highly likely they’ll be watching the tournament on TV. That loss to ASU has, from a national perspective, taken a lot of the…[Read more]

Union Hish School’s logo is exactly the same as the one from the University of Miami.

Can’t go wrong with that insignia on the right side of the jersey.

The problem is that five of the remaining seven games are away from home and Utah hasn’t won a PAC away game this season, even when playing bad competition. And, to top things off, they’ve been supremely uncompetitive while playing away games. Utah has gotten blown out in every PAC away game they’ve played this season except for the one versus…[Read more]

Well, I think that he can keep his job because the guy that hired him is still his boss and he’s only on Year 3 of a guaranteed six year contract. I’ve been saying that, probably due to money issues, Smith gets at least one more year. Now, if the Utes end the year with an eight game losing streak and ultimately losing record with a talented,…[Read more]

Just as I thought, the loss to ASU has been annotated as a Quad 3 home loss. Any one of those essentially start making you radioactive to the tournament selection committee. If Smith doesn’t right the ship in the remaining five games, I don’t know where we go from there. There might be 100 people in the stands for home games next season.