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Well..

Looks like the SEC has some top-end quality after all with 4 of the elite 8.

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I tip my hat to you guys who can watch the ladies play basketball. Paint drying and all.

Don’t know who this is or what she wants in life but I wish her the best.

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The problem comes when everyone in the stadium can tell what the next play is depending on the personnel. If Beck can be creative then I could get excited. If the defense plans for the obvious play, and the obvious play is ran, I am skeptical that Nate’s athletic talent will consistently overcome the defensive preparation.

Our history is the latter much more the predictable plays rather than creative- well at least since Urban left.

Having said that, I am excited to have Nate back on the team and hope Beck can produce a threatening offense.

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Fantastic news. Obviously there is a lot of runway between now and the ’27 signing day but this a great pickup. Warren will probably end up a 5*- something we have never signed out of high school. Having an inside track to his attention is really cool.

Great day to be a Ute!

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Maj was far superior in each of the three areas of recruiting, developing, and in-game coaching than anyone else we have had in the modern area. He was not elite in terms of being nice to all the players- particularly players that had deficiencies or were not matches for his system. I knew a family member of a player who accused him of being abusive and heard the stories from a sibling. Maj was clearly capable of harsh treatment or “tough love” if you prefer that term.

The players that bonded with him, on the other hand, appear to have a tremendous affection for him. As I remember, the NCAA sanctions were predominantly because of his personally taking a player to the airport late at night after a death in the family and buying the player a sandwich and cookie- with his own money, gasp!! That seems so quaint compared to BYU paying 7m for a recruit.

All of us are familiar with the success of his teams- which feels rather improbable at this point.

He was also extremely entertaining and a regular darling of the national media after his team exited the tourney. I miss that almost as much as having good teams. Remember when he said in the press conference “the guys played hard, I want them to relax, maybe take some broads up to Park City.” I have been laughing at that for 30 years.

He did not coddle the local media and they did not love him.

He was a flawed hero and many were anxious to run him out of town. We have seen the results. He was the best we have ever seen and very possibly the best we will ever see wearing Utah kit. He was the opposite of what the program has become- perfecting indifference from the fan base. RIP big man.

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My life improved when I stopped caring about the NBA.

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Decades of poor results, poor fan support, and poor NIL support. Lot of risk involved with taking this job.

Easy to see why Jensen would not want to take the plunge without adequate assurance of resources.

What is not easy to see is why they would fire the coach without having this settled.

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Deivon looked like the best player on the team to me- granted I was only able to see them play in person once. It was the Iowa NIT game and Deivon was very good.

Madsen and Deivon would be a solid duo and the team would be significantly better.

Utah will not compete until it has funding to keep its best players as an absolute minimum. Enough funding to poach other team’s best players would obviously move the program up a notch.

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This notion is with the knowledge that Cam would never return. That is easy in retrospect. All decisions are easy in retrospect.

There was no way for Whitt to know that Cam was done. A healthy Cam would have changed everything. Obviously it didn’t happen and Whitt looks like a dunce. If cam came back Whitt would have looked like a genius.

Inability to predict the future is not malpractice.

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I think he is surprised at Whitt being forthcoming with information rather than Wilson’s position on the depth chart.

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