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Saw that.

It’s so interesting how portal timing works. Just makes you wonder what goes into it.

Wahlin, Little, Lovering and Erickson all jumped in pretty quickly, but Keller and Dawes waited a little. Ausar and Sharavjamts still haven’t jumped in, but they probably will at some point.

If Keller can play more like he did vs Butler, I’d be much more interested in keeping him. I guess we’ll just have to trust Jensen and his guys to make the right call on whether he’s worth keeping and developing.

I don’t think he is. None of the portal sites list him there and there’s no news anywhere saying he’s jumped in.

He still has plenty of time to do it, but he hasn’t yet. Just makes me wonder if he really does want to leave. It feels kind of like Deivon last year. He didn’t enter the portal until late in the window.

Ausar sure did improve his free throw shooting. Proud of him for that. I’d love to have him stay if he wants to, but I agree that we can’t overpay him.

Apart from Dawes bring the #1 priority, id say #2 is bringing in a GOOD point guard, someone who is smart and runs the floor well and be the one the offense runs through. All successful teams have…[Read more]

Utah getting him to exit the portal so quickly indicates that Utah was willing to give him what he asked for, which almost certainly means Utah’s NIL coffees are much improved.

So glad KD will be back in a Utah uniform!

I was wondering about his jersey number. I just thought it was Vranes.

One thing working in our favor is KD grew up a Ute fan. Hopefully that will be enough to persuade him to stay.

The NIL/portal system will equalize soon and there will be more structure.

In the meantime, I have no contempt whatsoever for players who are trying to maximize what they can get in the small window of time they have to get it. The market forces working to take players from Utah will also benefit by bringing players to Utah. And if Utah is…[Read more]

I care about basketball because I love the game and I love my school. Which means I have a vested interest in watching them play. I’m not a fairweather fan who only bothers to show his face when the team is good. There are already way too many of those types in the Utah base.

If the football team continued to struggle like they did last year,…[Read more]

Not only that, Butler was without its best player.

There was absolutely positively no excuse for losing to a team like that – ESPECIALLY after maintaining a solid lead all game long and then being up double digits in the last 13 minutes.

Several times when we were up 10 or 11 points we got stops on the other end and had multiple opportunities to…[Read more]

Yeah that’s how I felt after the game too. I’m ready to flush this season.

If you have a double digit lead with 13 mins left in the game, you should win the game 1000 out of 1000 times, period. To lose from that position is inexcusable, and we saw Utah do that multiple times this year.

The reason we went into scoring funks every single game is…[Read more]

And that was only like an 8-foot shot. It’s kind of amazing how professional players can air ball a shot that close. I think any one of us in the forum could have come closer in that spot.

That was the exact moment I felt a colossal choke coming on.

Just before that, Madsen got the technical foul and gave them 2 free points. Then the Butler coach kind of distracted everything by double checking with the refs that they, not Utah, should be getting the ball after the technical. He knew it was Utah’s, but he did it to see what would…[Read more]

If Utah was still going down the apathetic Craig Smith-type road, I’d share your concern more. But I don’t think they are.

If in three years the disparity remains the same, I’ll reconsider my outlook. But I don’t think it will be.

Same

Yeah that’s an embarrassing number of points to give up in the ncaa tournament.

Even all the low seeds last week didn’t give up triple digits in their games.

BYU is the only team to give up more than 100 points so far in the tourney.

Yeah I share some concern for the influx of money to BYU athletics, but it’s minimal.

The reason is, buying a bunch of players to come to BYU doesn’t guarantee them any success. If it did, a LOT of big schools who are already playing that game would be killing it. They’re not. Only some are.

Yeah, you have to pay to be competitive, but that’s…[Read more]

Definitely underused, especially because we really didn’t have another true PG. Once Miro was benched, we relied on wings like Sharavjamts, Erickson and Madsen to run the point. Not only that, but it was several wings who rotated in that post. Just seemed like a bad idea, and the results bear that out.

Definitely not to take away from your point, because you’re 100% right. But I’m pretty sure he God $500k because he was expected to be the starting PG all season. He was in the starting lineup for a number of games to start the season and was eventually put on the bench when he continued to play sloppy and undisciplined.

I suspect Miro entered…[Read more]