The Miami Ute

Here’s a plausible scenario. Utah has three consecutive road games until they come back to the Huntsman to play Stanford. Those games are at USC, UCLA, and Colorado, all places where Utah has not fared well historically in the best of times. If the Utes go 0-3 on that road trip, they will be 10th in the PAC 12 conference standings with four games…[Read more]

I’m originally from Miami, and just north of Miami there’s an university called Florida Atlantic University (FAU). FAU is a commuter school in an urban environment with no fanbase, a high school gym for an arena and low academic standing. They’re easily the 7th or 8th best school (maybe) in the state of Florida. Yet FAU made it to the Final…[Read more]

Frustrating, that’s all I can say. Utah looks it’s still groggy from the 3OT loss to Zona. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a bad loss this would to be in the Utes’ tournament resume.

Maybe only when they play Utah. I mean, they just got blown out at home by a bad Cal team.

Free throw shooting hasn’t improved. Only 4/9 so far this game.

The Utes play on the road in five of their last seven games. They need this victory or it’ll be seen as a bad loss on their tournament resume. And let’s face it, even though ASU blew out Utah in Tempe, they’re a bad team that’s lost routinely in double figures this season.

But hey, none of this happens if Bill O’Brien hadn’t pulled a Bellichick and left to be the HC at Boston College moments after being hired as the OC at tOSU.

Larry Scott was the commissioner of the PAC 12 for over 12 years. Over 12 years!!! No one anywhere is able to last so long in any leadership position unless he/she has top cover at the highest levels.

You’re right. The PAC presidents should have been the adults in the room but they took their hands off the steering wheel and let Scott do…[Read more]

Kelly’s buyout called for him to receive $8.5 million if he was dismissed before December 2023 and $4.27 million if he was terminated before December 2024. Those were the numbers based off his latest entension.

I’m waiting for Lincoln Riley to follow him out the door to the NFL.

Yeap. One of the referees last night was BYU’s baseball manager for a decade. I guess that because he’s no longer associated with BYU no one thought it was a big deal.

Unbelievable…

MIKE LITTLEWOOD

The Utes had a three minute scoring drought in the 3rd OT. Impossible to win like that.

The Utes needed this game badly. The biggest problem is that five of the last seven games are on the road. They need two or three road victories to feel good about postseason chances.

Arizona: 15-17 from the foul line. Utah: 6-15 from the foul line. That’s the story of the game right there.

Yeah, the number of shots in the 3-5 foot range they missed in the first half was mind boggling.

I completely agree. I posted something almost exactly the same a while back and used the example of various professional soccer teams in Latin America. There are a number of teams whose name is Universidad XXXX but are completely professional entities.

Worst half of the season at home for the Utes. Can’t score, can’t hit free throws, and down double figures going into the locker room. Not the time to lay an egg at home. Larsson did get hurt and went limping into the locker room with more than three minutes left in the half.

^^^^This^^°°

To me, there’s no doubt that there’s a significant number of administrators, deans, professors, that would have zero problems getting rid of college sports in general. There’s a huge undercurrent of resentment and jealousy amongst academicians about the outsized role that sports play in the day to day existence of major universities.