At the risk of getting dragged into a sub-thread started by a self-identified BYU fan, @Wingnut…
This speaks to three things:
Lack of reliability/predictability of High School Player rankings.
Recruiting
Coaching
We had, during many of those years, (in which we had marginal at best coaching), highly touted recruits who made nothing of themselves at Utah, and in virtually all cases, later, made nothing of themselves at the schools to which they transferred.
I’m sure it we breakdown each individual, we’ll learn that failures in one of the three items above apply directly.
Oh, and, while you’re pointing out that Utah did not do all that well with all that talent, how much better did BYU do with the windfall?
I think we can both agree that utah underperformed in coaching up those good kids. I’m sure you all hope that your next coach will do a better job than your previous few coaches. And at the same time I think BYU did a better job of coaching up the kids that they had. I can point to BYU having a winning record against Utah during that 20 year time period. And you can point to Utah having higher highs then BYU during that same time period.
I was really just curious to see who had more Mr. Basketball award winners over the last 20 years and I was surprised to see the that utah had as many as they did. I think that really points to the fact that until recently I haven’t really paid much attention to utah basketball outside of the rivalry game.
After a quick scan of that list of names over the last 20 years I think there are only three kids who played any basketball after college. All three of them went to BYU. Please correct me if I made a mistake because I very well could be wrong on some of these kids.
Love the 3pt shooting % and the assist numbers. Hope he can bring both of those to the program. Also gets to the line with some efficiency. The question will be, can he play D at the PAC 12 level. All the player interviews this offseason have had an emphasis on D. Craig has hung his hat on that at his last few stops. Fingers crossed
We beat Wyoming by a bunch. Scored over 100. Guards dominated on both ends. Bigs struggled on D did great on O. A bunch of injuries the last few weeks limited some guys playing time.
Apparently there is a utah state message board called “Stew’s Spectrum” and per them, Mason Falslev is likely headed to logan when hes home from his mission.