TomahawkCruise

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]

Yes more should be added.

That definitely includes Doleac and Grant.

OK those sound like fair points. Thanks for enlightening me.

I don’t have a problem with Vranes being in the rafters, I just think it’s less evident why he’s up there compared to the others (minus Bogut).

But your insight definitely lends some credibility to his inclusion.

Good to see.

I have no tolerance for people like him.

I can’t imagine Utah going this hard on a build up for the program if they aren’t gonna improve their NIL situation much. It would be a total waste of time and resources.

So I think they have to have assurances from boosters/donors.

Yeah he’s got obvious talent but he’s clearly a project that Utah doesn’t need to be spending $500k on to ride the bench.

It sure seems Utah is going all-in on getting folks with NBA credentials.

It sounds like that is the correct way to go, given the current climate of collegiate athletics.

Which makes it even more surprising they haven’t announced Andre Miller yet.

Perhaps you can enlighten me why this is so.

I’ll admit that I’m not terribly familiar with Vranes, but a cursory review of his stats makes me wonder why he received the honor when others with similar accolades have not.

To me, it’s obvious why McGill, Gardner, Ferrin, Miller and Van Horn are up there. Clearly they had to change criteria to get…[Read more]

Oh, I wasnt aware they retired Chambers’ number. But that’s good, it should be up there.

Yeah, I mean it’s not inexplicable why Bogut had his number retired, it just seems to me that he didn’t stick around long enough to really have the impact you’d expect from someone who has their number in the rafters.

There’s surely an argument for having Bogut’s number up there, but I just don’t think he deserves to be up there as much as some others.

Yeah in the current age of college athletics, perhaps there’s a feeling that they can try anything – just throw some stuff to the wall and see what sticks.

My guess is you are mostly talking about football. If so, you are right. There are no real elite teams in the XII.

In basketball, however, there are several.

That’s probably another reason why I’ve been receptive to the change: I value college basketball more than I value college football. And through a basketball lens, going from the Pac to the…[Read more]

That’s definitely understandable. I think a good share of Utah fans would feel the same.

I’ve been able to make the switch, partly because some of our mates are easy for me to like. On top of that, I now have even more contempt for USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington because they killed the Pac 12 for nothing more than a bigger check to overpay…[Read more]

The thinking may be to combine all the time he missed with injury across those four years and argue to the NCAA that he should get a grad year to make up for it. If so, I’d be shocked if that works.