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  • cougjunkie
    *Banned*
    • Nov 2008
    • 23223

    #286
    Well the Utes better hope they can steal one from Wyoming.
    *Banned*

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    • Jarid in Cedar
      CS Institutional Memory
      • Jun 2009
      • 13234

      #287
      Originally posted by cougjunkie View Post
      Well the Utes better hope they can steal one from Wyoming.
      I don't see it happening after watching the game tonight. The next time this team plays team defense will be the first.
      "The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."

      "They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression."

      "I like to bike. I could beat Lance Armstrong, only because he couldn't pass me if he was behind me."

      -Rick Majerus

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      • cougjunkie
        *Banned*
        • Nov 2008
        • 23223

        #288
        Originally posted by Jarid in Cedar View Post
        I don't see it happening after watching the game tonight. The next time this team plays team defense will be the first.
        Defense has always been decent under Boylen, I think the next time they run an actual offensive play will be the first.
        *Banned*

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        • Senioritis
          Mr. Crimson Lover
          • Nov 2008
          • 694

          #289
          Damn.

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          • BoylenOver
            Junior Member
            • Nov 2008
            • 9146

            #290
            Originally posted by Senioritis View Post
            Damn.
            I was wishy-washy about Utah's performance thus far, but when you've reduced Senioritis to a single word, it's dire.
            "I don't know the origin of said bitch booming."-Art Vandelay
            "Hot Lunch posted awhile back on this. He knows more than anyone except for maybe BO."-Seattle Ute

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            • Blueintheface
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2009
              • 15382

              #291
              Couldn't sleep so I just watced the 2nd half on the re-broadcast. If Andre Miller was dead he'd have rolled over in his grave from the PG play. No semblance of organization or scheme. Duck your head and hope for the best. To be fair BYU often looks similar they just happen to have an All-American that can wake up a stagnant offense.

              If Clyburn had ANY help I think this team could spoil some team's post season aspirations. Currently they stand little chance of finishing better than 6th.

              Boylen has my vote for nice guy of the year but the program deserves more.
              "Either evolution or intelligent design can account for the athlete, but neither can account for the sports fan." - Robert Brault

              "Once I seen the trades go down and the other guys signed elsewhere," he said, "I knew it was my time now." - Derrick Favors

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              • il Padrino Ute
                Junior Member
                • Nov 2008
                • 19161

                #292
                :igiveup:
                "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill


                "I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader

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                • hostile
                  lollygagger
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 5736

                  #293
                  Man, that was frustrating to watch. Our lack of an offensive set puts us frequently out of position for transitiona defense. How do we not shoot any FT through the majority of the game-we have no inside offensive presence. It's going to be a long season.
                  "You interns are like swallows. You shit all over my patients for six weeks and then fly off."

                  "Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. It's my fault for overestimating your competence."

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                  • DrumNFeather
                    Invisible Swordsman
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 8854

                    #294
                    Is it fair to say this season is over?
                    "They're good. They've always been good" - David Shaw.

                    Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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                    • UteStar
                      Sexiest Poster in Town
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 2419

                      #295
                      Originally posted by DrumNFeather View Post
                      Is it fair to say this season is over?

                      Getting pretty close. As I said in many previous posts, I actually liked the potential and the play of the Utes thru the first 10 games of the year. But this team has gotten worse. Noticeably so. The offense is atrocious. It is drive and kick. The problem is that the kick usually means that Utah happily settles for the 3, which (not counting yesterday) is atrocious.

                      It is a bad offense for this team. In fact, there is no offense. Clyburn can create it, Jiggy can create it (and often turn it over) and Kupets can sometimes shoot it...but no inside game and the Utes have seriously digressed. I still think that they can sneak up and win some decent games...but, oh man.

                      I think chances were pretty good that Boylen would be around next year...but this team is getting worse as the season progresses. Unless he can somehow turn it around, he won't last after this year. Seriously, it is hard to argue for any kind of progression when you have a 5 game losing streak with losses to Hawaii (who played without their best player), San Diego (who had no D1 wins up to that point), Air Force and Portland (a decent team, but the Utes should still win that one). Egads.

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                      • SeattleUte
                        Faith crisis consultant
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 20837

                        #296
                        Originally posted by UteStar View Post
                        Getting pretty close. As I said in many previous posts, I actually liked the potential and the play of the Utes thru the first 10 games of the year. But this team has gotten worse. Noticeably so. The offense is atrocious. It is drive and kick. The problem is that the kick usually means that Utah happily settles for the 3, which (not counting yesterday) is atrocious.

                        It is a bad offense for this team. In fact, there is no offense. Clyburn can create it, Jiggy can create it (and often turn it over) and Kupets can sometimes shoot it...but no inside game and the Utes have seriously digressed. I still think that they can sneak up and win some decent games...but, oh man.

                        I think chances were pretty good that Boylen would be around next year...but this team is getting worse as the season progresses. Unless he can somehow turn it around, he won't last after this year. Seriously, it is hard to argue for any kind of progression when you have a 5 game losing streak with losses to Hawaii (who played without their best player), San Diego (who had no D1 wins up to that point), Air Force and Portland (a decent team, but the Utes should still win that one). Egads.
                        You must be embarrassed having predicted the Utes would win 15-17 games.
                        When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                        --Jonathan Swift

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                        • UteStar
                          Sexiest Poster in Town
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 2419

                          #297
                          Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
                          You must be embarrassed having predicted the Utes would win 15-17 games.

                          Oh man and I thought that was pretty fair...I gave that prediction right before the Hawaii trip. And, it was not really over the top prediction. They were 7-3 going into the Hawaii tourney... I thought that they would win 2 of their final 4 games of the year and then win at Air Force, which would have left them with a 10-5 record or at worst, 9-6. I thought that they would win 6-8 games in conference.

                          Now, with 5 straight losses and they sit at 7-8. My new revised prediction is 12-14 wins. Unless they show marked improvement, I don't know how Hill keeps Boylen.

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                          • LA Ute
                            Receiver of Memory
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 19512

                            #298
                            Originally posted by UteStar View Post
                            Oh man and I thought that was pretty fair...I gave that prediction right before the Hawaii trip. And, it was not really over the top prediction. They were 7-3 going into the Hawaii tourney... I thought that they would win 2 of their final 4 games of the year and then win at Air Force, which would have left them with a 10-5 record or at worst, 9-6. I thought that they would win 6-8 games in conference.

                            Now, with 5 straight losses and they sit at 7-8. My new revised prediction is 12-14 wins. Unless they show marked improvement, I don't know how Hill keeps Boylen.
                            My prediction is that we'll know who the new coach is by mid- to late April.
                            “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                            ― W.H. Auden


                            "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                            -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                            "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                            --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                            • Senioritis
                              Mr. Crimson Lover
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 694

                              #299
                              Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                              My prediction is that we'll know who the new coach is by mid- to late April.
                              Damn.

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                              • UteStar
                                Sexiest Poster in Town
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 2419

                                #300
                                Originally posted by Senioritis View Post
                                Damn.
                                Hot Damn, you mean. Nothing more exciting and really depressing than yet another coaching search. It will only get worse when fans start calling for a womans coach in Provo, an assistant somewhere in the ACC, a head coach for a D7 college in South Dakota and BYU's head coach. I am not looking forward to the next 3 months.

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