Official Utah basketball coach candidates thread.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Are you sure on this? UFN has been plenty wrong on this before.

Also, the timing is odd. Why hire him now? Couldn't they have hired him right after canning Boylen?

The problem is that more than utefans.net reporting it right now. KSL is reporting it and I'm really hoping they are wrong.

[LA Ute]

Fair warning any BYU fans that want to talk shit about this hire, expect a minimum of 5 f-bombs in reply from me. I'm not a happy person right now.

I'm done with this basketball program and I'm done with Chris Hill. We needed a new basketball coach and a new AD. Unfortunately, we should have got the new AD first. Unreal.

There might be some staff additions that will make you feel better. And I don't know why BYU fans would make fun of hiring K., if he's the one. He already has more coaching accomplishments to his name as a coach than Rose or Cleveland or Reid, BYU's last 3 coaches, had when they were hired at the Y, and they worked out just fine.

[MartyFunkhouser]

There might be some staff additions that will make you feel better. And I don't know why BYU fans would make fun of hiring K., if he's the one. He already has more coaching accomplishments to his name as a coach than Rose or Cleveland or Reid, BYU's last 3 coaches, had when they were hired at the Y, and they worked out just fine.

Unless our staff is Donny Daniels, Tommy Connor, and Jeff Judkins, I'm not going to feel better at all.

Consider this me divorcing Ute basketball and adopting the Oregon Ducks. So long Huntsman Center, hello Matthew Knight Arena.

[Donuthole]

Hey, your head coach came from Dixie College. You never know where you'll find a good one. And good for Dayton to be aiming high.

Dixie College by way of Pine View High School. If he'd had a stop at Weber State in there, he'd have a perfect resume.

[LiveCoug]

Unless our staff is Donny Daniels, Tommy Connor, and Jeff Judkins, I'm not going to feel better at all.

Consider this me divorcing Ute basketball and adopting the Oregon Ducks. So long Huntsman Center, hello Matthew Knight Arena.

Don't be silly, Funk. Stick with your team.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Don't be silly, Funk. Stick with your team.

I'm probably just venting.

[falafel]

Unless our staff is Donny Daniels, Tommy Connor, and Jeff Judkins, I'm not going to feel better at all.

Consider this me divorcing Ute basketball and adopting the Oregon Ducks. So long Huntsman Center, hello Matthew Knight Arena.

Hey, come on, there's a much more successful basketball program right in your own back yard that would love to haver your support. No need to waste it on Oregon.

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[MartyFunkhouser]

Hey, come on, there's a much more successful basketball program right in your own back yard that would love to haver your support. No need to waste it on Oregon.

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I still am holding out hope that Eugene will be my backyard in the near future.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Back up from the cliff, MP. This may serve a wake up call for the program. You can't live off previous accomplishment. Hopefully, Hill and the merry band of boosters will realize that a rosy tradition is not enough to lure a top name. Time to invest in the facilities(and not just an upgrade for the huntsman), time to work on improving relationship with the students and recent alumni, etc, etc, etc.

[Portland Ute]

Unless our staff is Donny Daniels, Tommy Connor, and Jeff Judkins, I'm not going to feel better at all.

Consider this me divorcing Ute basketball and adopting the Oregon Ducks. So long Huntsman Center, hello Matthew Knight Arena.

Good riddance. When will you be changing your football allegiances so that we can be done with your charade?

[MartyFunkhouser]

Back up from the cliff, MP. This may serve a wake up call for the program. You can't live off previous accomplishment. Hopefully, Hill and the merry band of boosters will realize that a rosy tradition is not enough to lure a top name. Time to invest in the facilities(and not just an upgrade for the huntsman), time to work on improving relationship with the students and recent alumni, etc, etc, etc.

Why not hire the better option of the 2 guys that both want your job?

You know what isn't a good way to improve relationships with the students and alumni, hire a coach that everyone of them hates.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Good riddance. When will you be changing your football allegiances so that we can be done with your charade?

Look I'm venting and am pretty unhappy about this right now. Tomorrow, I'll back away from the edge and be a Ute hoops fan. I'll keep watching the games and cheering for the team. I'll just spare my son the same torment and make him a Duck fan .

[Jarid in Cedar]

Why not hire the better option of the 2 guys that both want your job?

You know what isn't a good way to improve relationships with the students and alumni, hire a coach that everyone of them hates.

Maybe he preferred Krystobggujjgflk. He obviously liked him well enough last time around to have him at the top of the list in 2006.

[Maximus]

One guy has had success in college for a lot of years, the other had 2 years and then went and got fired in his next gig.....hmmm

[myboynoah]

What were people expecting? This seems like what one would expect given the bait you were fishing with. Rock's column made it sound like the football upgrades sucked all the money away leaving the basketball program with limited resources to hire a coach.

You really can't judge this hire for another three years.