Utah basketball losers over the weekend
by JazzyUte on Jan 10, 2011 12:14 AM MST
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PrintIt's not surprising the Utes lost Saturday to sixth ranked San Diego State. They're not good and it's rare a top-ten team falls to a bad team - even if on the road.
Yet it really shows how far Utah has fallen as a program.
With the loss, the Utes have now slumped to 7-9 and find themselves in a six game rut. It's their longest losing streak since Giacoletti's final season and one that will probably be pushed to seven with BYU coming to town Tuesday. I hate to think of what the Cougars are capable of doing against a Utah team that, unfortunately, looks worse today than they did at the start of the season.
I'm not going to throw out the word fire in the context of Boylen's future - but I'm getting there.
Hopefully he can prove me wrong and Tuesday marks the slow, hard climb back to respectability.
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ESPN called MWC the new pac-10
guess this is what it’s going to be like int the coming years.
At the top, yeah. Overall, though, the Pac-12 will be much more difficult.
From top to bottom, it’s a better conference. The MWC is top-heavy right now with an abysmal middle and bottom.
I don’t know if there is one team at the bottom of the Pac-12 Utah could beat on the road right now.
Well...
at least it wasn’t a blowout.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I'm ready to say 'fire'
We should be able to get a better coach with all of the changes our athletic program has had. Time to move on from Boylen. I know he’s a great guy, but that’s not what we pay him for.
i think will be fighting air force to stay out of last place.
i hope utah is at least secretly putting out some feelers out there. there is no doubt this guy should be fired at years end.
On february 5th 2011 at UFC 126 Jon "Bones" Jones will show the world that their was no need for the MMA community to hype this man because this guy is a beast with many skills and i personally will feel Ryan "Darth" Bader's pain after this fight. SB Nation's public enemy #1.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 10, 2011 12:20 PM MST reply actions
I don't know about you guys...
but I actually really appreciated the way that the Utes played against SDSU. If we play as well against BYU as we did in the first half against SDSU, I think that we are going to win. I have seen BYU play several times this season. They are not as talented as the Aztecs. They do not have the level of athleticism or amount of players that can make you pay for mistakes. That San Diego State team returned their entire starting lineup and a couple of bench players from last year’s really good NCAA tournament team. Jimmer Fredette and Jackson Emery are BYU’s ENTIRE team. If we can limit them, we just may have a chance. IMO, we played well enough to beat SDSU, we just didn’t execute when we had to in the second half. The lack of execution may have also been caused by the Aztecs defense. I think Jim Boylen had it spot on: the Utes played 32 minutes of really good basketball only to be undone by 8 not so good ones. Let’s not forget, that SDSU team is UNDEFEATED and ranked #6 IN THE COUNTRY. It’s not like we are not playing really good competition or something.
SDSU is undefeated...
SDSU, however, hasn’t looked all that spectacular at times. They’ve played a soft schedule. They were only up four against TCU the game before Utah and they’ve gutted out some close wins over the months.
I think BYU is better coached and because of that, I think the Cougars win more comfortably.
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