I always feel a warmth in my heart for MAC schools.
Maybe he feels really happy about compensating for disappointing millions of member of his church.
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#OldSchoolSmack
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Please elaborate. I donât get the smack.
When Chris Burgess committed to Duke instead of byu-provo, Roger Reid (byu coach at the time) said that Burgess had let down 10 million Mormons.
Roger Reid was a big contributor to the disrespect that you find for byu-provo.
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Not an easy guy to like. (Understatement meter is beeping loudly.) BYU gets one of those regularly. Remember Frank Arnold? Reid was worse, I think. Pope was borderline, not a gracious winner or loserâlike Arnold. Bronco was just weirdly irritating. In between those types they sometimes have had tolerable guysâLeDell Anderson, Steve Cleveland. Kalani is a true exception.
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Iâll never forget the early Majerus years, when Utah & BYU were in the WAC and were traveling partners for basketball.
It became apparent Majerus really, deeply understood what he was doing and the Utes started winning a lot of games. He was a chessmaster. It was fun to listen to Big Rick on the postgame show, when he would talk about the game a little, but would mostly go on big streams of consciousness and make jokes about Utah and Mormons - but more jokes about Catholics - or talk about pretty much anything but hoops.
It was basically put a microphone in front of Rick and hold on⌠there would be some basketball in there, but it was always a very wide ranging journey of topics that mostly wasnât basketball.
Then if you listened to BYUâs postgame, Roger Reid nearly always had a bug up his a$$ about the rivalry with Utah, and would suggest BYU softened up the weekendâs opponents for Utah to beat, etc.
It was a very unintentional ongoing dual-channel comedy: Majerus was often joking around and talking philosophy or some obscure aspect of the Jesuits or what Al Maguire did or said that was funny as hell⌠while Roger Reid was hyper-competitive and hyper-sensitive about keeping up with Utah.
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Sounds like the roots to cougarboard.
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He can get NIL for things done outside of the U.S. He can go home, do some basketball camps, do some tik tok videos, whatever. As long as a foreign student is not getting paid for work performed in the U.S., they can make money, including NIL.
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Frank Arnold was worse than Roger Reid. Reid was unrefined. Bull in a China Shop. Arnold was just nasty. But I did see him once go after one of his own fans in the Marriott Center who was heckling the Utes relentlessly and yell at him to shut up.
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so this is what we are doing,
⌠smart 
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It is a close call. Arnold had a darkness to him.
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Yep, the restrictions are not black & white plus they only apply to those on F-1 visas. I doubt anybody knows precisely what his immigration status is, unless he has shared that publicly.
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What Iâd give for a beautiful/methodical/often boring basketball win by our Utes against a stronger opponent; followed by stream-of-consciousness answers to postgame interviews by our once-in-a-lifetime head coach to questions posed by Marcroft, and fools like Monson and Kinahan.
As a lifelong, UofU basketball fan, who saw games at Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse as a young child as early as '63 or '64, (not sure which- I was very young) I will tell you that those Majerus years were the epitome! However, the success of the program was always very close to those Majerus years, with the exception of many/most of the last 20 years.
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The athletic departmentsâ massive-scale mismanagement of DI sports has been criminally negligent. Allowing the networks, who only care about this and next yearâs profits, to destroy a beloved institution and failing to enforce any NIL rules.
Goes to show you that people with physical education and sociology degrees are incapable of competently running a business.
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Itâs a travesty.
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dont forget the NCAA. It has huge culpability too
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Everything changes. As I have mentioned in a previous post, college athletics looks different than it did in the late 19th century, different than it did in the 1970s, etc. I would argue that nothing has been destroyed. This is simply the next version. I look forward to what it becomes, honestly. Itâs exciting.
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This is really the biggest change of all. BYU now has a money faucet to pay top coaches a competitive salary, when in the past, that certainly hamstrung them. Here on this board in the old days we would joke about the Couger Club and the pennies that were donated.
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Yeah, Ryan Smith is pumping a lot of money into byu basketball. If the program is no better in four years is he going to keep doing that?