The Fall
 

This is what happened last night in the Huntsman Center:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

The heathen fanatics despoiled civilization. A tragedy beyond reckoning. But it's ephemeral. Giacoletti will suffer the same fate as the last Emperor and we'll rise again. They don't realize that they are acutually at the doorstep of doom.

You guys are not the Roman Empire. You guys are Wyoming. Small fan base. Small recruiting base.

You got lucky with two good coaching hires Majerus and Meyer. Your success was sustained with Majerus because he was too much of a basket case to follow the normal pattern Meyer did.

Get used to mediocrity with occasional runs when you make a lucky hire before he moves on to a bigger school.

Every Y fan's fantasy.

RESEARCH

May be true for football, but not basketball. If anything, Giac is the aberration, not Majerus. They've had a solid b-ball program for decades.

Apparently you have not paid any attention to Ute basketball. Majerus is not the first great coach that Utah has had.

Don't waste your time on this. He knows that.

Ask yourself if your success the last 20 years has been fueled by recruits from your natural recruiting base.

Any small-time regional school without a recruiting base like Nevada or Gonzaga or Boise State or Wyoming or Utah or UNM can find success short term with a good coaching hire.

BYU has a national recruiting base? BYU has fellow pod people; the ones who get conned into going to BYU, that is. Most the really good Mormons don't even go to BYU. Utah's biggest problem recruiting is the perception that its culture is like BYU's.

That's too bad, becaseu it's beiggest problem competing with BYU for recruits is that its culture is so different. I guess it's hosed either way, eh?