The Miami Ute

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.

Other than BYU, can’t think of a better team for a first game.

If Oregon State can beat Arizona, then Utah should be able to as well. I’m not saying it’s going to be easy but Arizona has already lost to Stanford, Wazzu, and OSU this season in their PAC schedule. Utah really, really needs to win tonight to firm up their tournament resume with another Quad I win.

Big-time schools are already getting around scholarship limits by having NIL donors pay for selected athletes. Theoretically, you could have a 200 player roster provided that only X amount were on scholarship.

Absolutely GD right. What a lot of people fail to understand is that with the exception of football, at some but not all schools, and MBB, again at some but not all schools, college athletics operate deeply in the red.…[Read more]

Unless SLC gets an NFL franchise, I sincerely doubt that any new professional team will impact a successful Utah football team. Same with MLB affecting, say MBB…season tickets for the Runnin’ Utes are absurdly cheap (I pay $150 per season ticket) and besides, MLB’s season (APR though OCT) doesn’t coincide with that of MBB. Hockey might be a…[Read more]

I just have to laugh sometimes. You post an announcement highlighting a player’s accomplishments and it gets a downvote. It would not surprise me one bit if this site has been infiltrated my a large component of TDS fans.

Last I heard he was in jail. Any updates in his situation? Sad to see a talented guy like him go on such a self-destructive path.

JJ was a project.

So, JJ went from a team that emphasized the run and, without injuries, would have challenged for a conference title to a team playing in the toughest football conference in the nation and which went 1-7 in the conference last year. I’d say it’s a better than even bet that he doesn’t come close to producing what he did at Utah.

You’re absolutely right. Fans have all of the power but none of the will. If fans were unionized, they could call the tune like nobody’s business. Because let’s be real…no athlete gets paid because of how fast they are or how well they shoot a basketball…they get paid because large numbers of people watch them compete.

I think he will. He had other offers, granted not P5, to stay in Florida but decided to come out west. There’s a video from a couple of months ago on YouTube where you can see a change in his physical development from his junior year. I also watched some of his highlights and my biggest takeaway is how low he runs to the ground compared to a…[Read more]

Two words, Title IX…absolutely guaranteed that most bigtime universities would get rid of all non-revenue producing (read football and, except for a handful of universities, MBB) sports but for the fact that Title IX legally compels them to provide athletic opportunities for female athletes.

Jim, you ever hear of the “Golden Rule”? When I was growing up in Miami that was interpreted as “thems that’s got the gold make the rules.” No doubt that there’s a lot of money associated with college football and basketball. The problem is that all of that money is concentrated, relatively speaking, in a few handfuls of programs.

Look at it…[Read more]