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Good for her but I’m sad to see her go.

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Some quick numbers based on the past six seasons. I picked 5:00 pm kickoff as the line since the game referred to in the video kicked off at that time.

Utah record at home, kickoff 5:00pm or later: 18-2 (90%)
Utah record at home, kickoff before 5:00pm: 14-1 (93%)

Seems to me that the Utes are pretty good at home, regardless of kickoff time. Based on winning percentage, they are technically better before the sun goes down (at least the past six years).

For those interested, the pre-5:00 loss was Oregon (as mentioned above). The two later losses were USC (covid year) and Washington in 2018.

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In case anyone needs it…

Plouffe, Crozon, and Smith-Gaucher – 3 on 3 Basketball, Canada

Nilsson Garip – 3m Springboard, Sweden

Eriksen – 4 x 400m relay, Norway

Plourde – 1500m, Canada

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I don’t know what the contract is but the rumors were that the Sparks were willing to pay to to $2 million per year.

Edit: Looks like she was set to make $822k at Utah this year.

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Exactly what Miami said.

Going to coach in the pros, gets a hefty raise, no longer has to recruit/deal with NIL, and gets to go home to California. A no-brainer for the coach.

The new coach, Gavin Peterson, has been an assistant at the University for all of Roberts’ time here and he has been the Associate Head Coach for five (going on six years). I think the school has been expecting this situation for a while.

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I’m not the person that you asked but if you are interested in my perspective on the topic:

As a Utahn that grew up in the 80s-90s, there was a lot of arrogance directed at me for being a Utes fan when most of my classmates were cheering for BYU. Whatever, but when the rivalry started to shift to equality (and later Utah dominance), those same people were very angry, regardless of how I tried to approach the situation.

But more specifically for me, I went to a basketball game years ago and watched Utah and BYU fans yelling at each other in the upper bowl over a meaningless non-conference game. At that point, I turned to my friend and said, “you know, this isn’t fun any more.” It was true. There is a certain part of both fanbases that are so wound up about the rivalry that they get unreasonable. So I checked out of it all. I enjoy my team and some good banter but am too old to deal with people whose self-worth is defined by their college team.

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I would love to go back to the world where Utah plays USC, Oregon, et al. and your guys are going against Texas and that team south of OKC. But that’s not the current world so I’m happy to watch the Utes go against a bunch of quality teams (mostly) in the central time zone.

Go Utes!

Go (but not this week) Cowboys!

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I agree with what you are saying: old PAC-12 was awesome but the Big XII is a good place to be right now and better than the current (and hypothesized above) PAC-12.

However, the CFB numbers you share don’t really show that they view the current Big XII all that better than the PAC-12. Of the six Big-XII playoff appearances, five belong to current SEC teams (Texas and Oklahoma). The only current member of our conference to make the playoff as a member is TCU (shoutout to Cincinnati for making it from the AAC).

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Using the same six-year period:

Average Home Margin of victory, 5:00 or later kickoff: 20.46

Average Home Margin of victory, kickoff before 5:00: 19.84

These numbers can be analyzed further (most games in 2019 were blowouts, how often the FCS kickoff is early vs. late, etc.) but I should probably get back to work 😉

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Edit: Sorry for the double post. Tony, any idea why I cannot see my posts when I’m logged in on the web? I can see them in the app and it doesn’t appear that I’ve ignored myself.

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