Utah#1
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Craig Smith is Utah’s men’s basketball Achilles heel. Already four years in and the program IMO is worse off than when Coach K was here. Can’t fire his ass fast enough.
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Four years later and the basketball program is a dumpster fire thanks in large part to Craig Smith who I knew was a bad hire the day he was announced as Utah’s next head basketball coach. Utah will probably lose the rest of their games and even though they started conference play with at least 18 more games to go.
I think Smith has had more than enough opportunity to right the ship. He needs to go and so does Mark Harlan. UofU’s big mistakes when they hired these two guys. Wasted millions on their incompetences.
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BYU feeling invincible right now with their football team recording a huge bowl win and finishing an 11-2 season that’s got them flying above cloud 9. I’ve noticed that BYU has been more vocal and public lately with their football and basketball recruiting acquisitions wanting the whole world to know what they are doing, especially their rival Utah. They’ve now gone one step further and tampered with players taking Tanuvasa, but missing on Barton and Snowden.
BYU’s recent actions with the Portal and NIL, IMO, have intentionally crossed the line hitting below the belt letting Utah know, “we are going to destroy you slowly and do what we want, when we want, and how we want, and we know there is nothing you can do about it, because you haven’t done anything about it but go after G5 level players. we have unlimited resources (money) available at our disposal and we have the backing of BYU alum in key positions of the state legislature to oversee every public universities athletic program, who is not private, to ensure they follow standards accordingly dictated by the local Utah state government.”
This is how I see it. I dont recall or heard anything Utah tampering or interfering with players at BYU when joining the Pac12. What I feel is BYU has taken it personal with Utah joining the Pac12 a decade ago and are seeking revenge beyond belief and hell-bent on personally destroying Utah doing it slowly to avoid making it appear as such and any legal ramifications.
Those are my thoughts based off what has transpired since the season ended and the portal.
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They were trailing in the the Utah game until Rose got hurt. I believe if Rose continued to play and was healthy, BYU coulda lost by two TDs or more. They lost to Kansas and barely beat OSU. They are a good team, but their record doesn’t reflect their play on the field. I expect the Big12 to me more competitive next year then it was this past season and don’t expect the top teams (ASU, ISU, and BYU) to be anymore dominant then the rest of the league. I think there will be some parity with the top half of the league. We will see.
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Exactly! When the last three games they’ve been blown out in the hunty and on the road.
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Unless I am wrong, but it appears the portal never closed because players are still transferring even though techically the portal closed end of last month.
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To me in the trenches are where many games are won and lost.
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Oregon deserved to be there! They’d beaten everyone on their schedule including the original Big10 powers Ohio State and Penn State. Ohio State is not the same Ohio State Oregon beat over a month ago. Ohio State is on another level and I believe they’ll take care of Texas.
Despite all the Nike NIL $$$ on the roster that $$$ couldn’t beat Ohio State. Maybe next year Oregon can go all the way provide most of the nucleus of that team returns and have some experience under their belts, they can run it back again. NIL helps gets teams good players, but it’s not the answer to improve a team’s roster and not every team will be successful regardless of how many good players committed to another team from the portal. Hope with the new OC Whitt can stay out of the way and allow Beck to run the offense.
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Your right! Like the old say goes, the regular season begins in the post season.
Ohio St had this game circled on their calendar when the CFP schedule was announced. They are not about to make the same mistake twice. I truly believe they felt they were the better team when they lost to Oregon and I think they believe it, and I believe that as well, judging by the Rose Bowl score 34-0 Ohio St.
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dont think he’s being delusion but sarcastic to the point they know like most of us, nothing will change as long as Smith and Harlan are still employed at the UofU
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