The Miami Ute

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.

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.