Where are all the Ute fans?
May and June are always like this.
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Welcome to the annual âTainât ZoneâŚ
Just because some are already hyping the fall doesnât give us sports to watch now.
The NBA finals are trashâŚ
The NHL Finals are better, but stillâŚ
Baseball and MLS are both just getting underwayâŚ
In short, there âTainât much of anything going on in sports.
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Celtics vs Heat and GSW vs Dallas is a trash playoffs? Thatâs a very bad take unless you are a Jazz or nothing absolutist.
When you live in the Disneyland of outdoor stuff to do⌠once we get saturated with outdoor fun, weâll get serious about the FB season coming up.
Toward the end of July, when it starts getting just a little cooler up high in the mountains, and the Elk and Moose start looking for dates, football comes back to us.
Live in the momentâŚ
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If you like the NBA, it may be ok. If you find the NBA to be a flailing mess that really has no fundamentals then it probably isnât as entertaining.
To me, it looks like LDS Ward Basketball, only with actual athletes.
I watched the Jazz first round bow out and wasnât surprised with the results.
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Ah, so you thought the 1970s and 1980s had more fundamentals than todayâs game. Interesting take.
Dang. Sounds like I should have rented something in Utah instead of Hawaii for the next month.
Its largely a politics/covid board, if youâre into that. Otherwise you kinda have to wait things out. Eventually thereâll be some decent sports talk.
Utehub has less politics but is a victim of numbers. Just not enough posters to keep things going. I donât know of any other options.
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More places to go in Utah, though Hawaii is always Hawaii, even better in January.
I hear you. I need to get back. Weâre making the trip to complete my daughterâs 50 states before the 8th-grade goal. This will be her 50th state visited. I need to get to Bryce and Zion. Neither the wife nor my daughter have been.
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Yard work
I should have had more kids
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I do not care for Hawaii in the winter. The water is too cold and chances of rain multiple days are too high. But if youâre coming from some cold place I get it.
And Maui no ka oi.
FTFO!
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Like many Utah fans, Iâm deeply uncomfortable with positive preseason predictions. I would honestly prefer it if Utah was being called a dark horse to win the Pac-12, instead of the favorite. Iâm trying my best to ignore each positive prediction about Utah.
But even if you arenât like me, what more is there to say? Once someone posts that Stewart Mandel (for example) ranked Utah #5 in his âearly Top 25â thereâs only so many ways to say, âgreat. I think/hope/believe he is right.â
Outside of preseason rankings, when it comes to the offseason, no news is good news.
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There is some discussion happening in the various Utah sports Facebook groups and on Twitter. Thatâs where a lot of people have migrated.
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One of the toxins of major college football is crazy expectations heaped upon teenagers and very young adults, with the following just-plain-dumb criticism if those expectations donât come to fruition.
Weâve always made fun of the fanbase 40 miles south for building a massive - and entirely irrational - mountain of expectations beginning in April that ends up ruining a lot of things, drives coaches off, players bail out. Itâs pure poison inside that program, even if weâre entertained vicariously.
May and June need to be off limits for expectations construction. Thereâs a whole summer to go through, lay off the kids, weâll be there when the time is right.
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Yes. If you ever get to be there when a winter storm from the north hits Kahului bay⌠itâs truly humbling + off the charts amazing.
I always like watching NHL hockey playoffs. Nothing else in sports compares to sudden death overtime where a game ending goal can come at any moment. Often will see a shot barely miss at one end, then the goal occurs on the other end a few seconds later.
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Hockey is always great. NBA is only great in playoffs. its like they give a half effort during the season.
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the basketball Utes landed a recruit yesterday. Not one post about it. Goddammit someone isnât doing their jobs!
Commit Tarlac signed his LOI with Utah yesterday.
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