Utah is out-pathetic'd by TCU in ugly, low-scoring snoozefest
by JazzyUte on Feb 22, 2011 10:22 PM MST
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PrintThe Runnin' Utes got a break tonight. Had this game been against any other Mountain West team, they're walking out of the Huntsman Center with a loss. Fortunately for them, the Frogs are abysmal and the worst team in the conference.
Even then, this was a game the Utes almost lost. It's a win that depressingly feels like a defeat because the team was listless and down right awful for much of the contest.
It's a win and it counts the same as any other - but you're getting the sense now that Boylen is just going through the motions. How else do you explain nearly getting beat, on your home floor, by one of the worst teams in college basketball?
How do you explain only scoring 50 points? They had 19 at the half!
Worse yet, the Huntsman Center feels like a morgue. It's not even remotely electric anymore and that's not going to change until we see major changes.
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Calm down
The only thing worse than people whining after a loss is people whining after a win.
And the only thing worse than that is people who whine about people whining...
I guess I expect more out of this program than a two-point win over one of the worst teams in the country at home. Stupid me.
This was an ugly game. I’m sorry you don’t like my attitude toward a very ugly win in a season filled with mostly ugly results.
I guess I’m a bad fan. Oh well.
the only thing worse is people whining about people whining about a win
TCU has 1 conference win all year( i’m actually surprised that it didn’t come against us). In a home game we should need to escape with wins against teams this bad.
I think the frustration comes from the fact that we see this team is not very good...
And that is difficult to take. We bitch about the win because this team should play better than this.
So yeah, we will complain. Is it fun to read? No – but it’s no more fun than sitting through these games.
A really bad team took us to the wire at home.
TCU almost broke a 10 game losing streak here last night. Have they even won a game since they lost Moss?
Smug self-righteous judgment of others does not make you classy. Going out of your way to call people classless does not make you even classier.
by daedalus17 on Feb 23, 2011 8:34 AM MST via mobile up reply actions
utah did lose to san diego. san diego state(loses was expected) san diego i think is division 2 team?
The University of Utah is off to the Pac-12 Conference and will be in the South Division. Hopefully we will get to the first ever Pac-12 Championship Game. Jon " Bones " Jones gets his chance for the UFC Light Heavyweight Title when he faces off against Shogun Rua. Jon Jones will win.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Feb 24, 2011 1:04 PM MST up reply actions
looking at the box score...
we shot 32% from the field. Even Enkidu must know that’s not good.
I think Enkidu must've been too busy blowing Gilgamesh to actually watch the game. :)
I keed, I keed!
Now, I’m usually not an advocate of whining/complaining, but if anyone has the right to complain this year, it’s Ute fans. We’ve watched a formerly proud institution brought low over the course of a decade and we’re all getting fed up.
by Smoke Bellew on Feb 23, 2011 9:54 AM MST up reply actions
Disappointed in the usually worthy opponents....
Okay, please don’t murder me for this, but I’m a student at BYU. Don’t get me wrong, I love that the Utes are such a good school in sports! It’s what makes our rivalry the best in the nation. I love the rivalry (and to me, it’s just that, it’s no feud,) and I usually look forward to the nail-biters that are the games we play each other. Well, in football and rugby they are. I was hoping that Boylen would get the boys into fighting frenzy for the holy war, because this may be the last time we play each other, with the conference changes. In football, we’ll continue, if not as heated as before, but basketball? We have no promises. I’m not gloating, I’m as sad to see basketball season end this way as I was to see us lose in football. (It was still a great game! Congrats on the Final Win.)
Goodbye, Utes. Thanks for making MWC sports fun to watch. Whether my more hostile classmates will admit it or not, we’ll all miss you. Here’s hoping you have a better season next year.
curious, do utah and byu play each other in lacrosse?
The University of Utah is off to the Pac-12 Conference and will be in the South Division. Hopefully we will get to the first ever Pac-12 Championship Game. Jon " Bones " Jones gets his chance for the UFC Light Heavyweight Title when he faces off against Shogun Rua. Jon Jones will win.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Feb 24, 2011 1:06 PM MST up reply actions
ouch
If Boylen wants more fans to show up, then the Utes need to win more home games and we can’t just slip by the terrible teams. Students get in free with their student ID, but the place is still dead. I personally just can’t stand watching Kupets
My parents had season tickets when Majerus was coaching
The first year we had the seats was when Kieth Van Horn was a freshman, and we had them for a couple years past the year we almost beat Kentucky in the National Championship. There wasn’t a place louder than the Huntsman Center in all of College Basketball. It’s sad to hear that it has become a morgue, but then again, Utah Football wasn’t much when we were awesome at Basketball. It seems that the power has just changed venues on campus. GO UTES!!!!
Went to this game
Only one of 2 games I’ve attended. There was actually decent attendance, but I think a lot of tickets were giveaways. There were large sections of young people with not one in red that sat on their hands the whole game. Worst of all, the MUSS is a pathetic 2 rows of students, that’s problem #1. I definitely noticed it was one of the quietest games I’ve ever attended, but when the Utes are sucking it up so bad, there isn’t much to cheer for.
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