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Utah is not a hotbed for D1 BB athletes. My take is that there is a longterm trend of Utah losing their edge over BYU as a basketball school and BYU becoming the first choice for LDS Utah recruits. We shot ourselves in the foot with Reid, but since Cleve we have had an obvious advantage. I'm messing with you guys mostly, but I do believe a couple key points. 1. BYU has a recruiting advantage over Utah within the state of Utah (own is a strong word but we have the advantage) 2. Utah has a very weak natural recruiting base, especially compared with your expectations, and that generally when that is the case, the program relies on a good coaching hire to recruit nationally--with the trends in BB the last 20 years and even the spillover affect of "BCS", I believe you are facing an uphill battle to match past success. That said, I think BYU faces tough demographic trends as well. Our recruiting base is better than yours but still not great. Utah/LDS folks just don't grow that good of basketball players. |
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02-02-2007, 05:10 PM | #84 | |
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#1 is where we differ... Utah's base in Utah is Salt Lake Metro Area Kids... I say that Utah has the advantage when it comes to those kids. Green, Deane and Grimm are examples of that. In utah county and even more south byu is king. However, who produces more players? Salt Lake and Davis County or the rest?
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02-02-2007, 05:11 PM | #85 |
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What's fun is watching you try to convince us of the gloom and doom of Utah basketball. Keep it coming. It's good for a laugh.
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02-02-2007, 05:22 PM | #87 |
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I love BYU basketball. But if I'll be honest, if I were back in HS and was a Division 1 prospect that could play at a MWC school, but not necessarily good enough to play in the Pac 10 or Big East, I would probably go to Utah over BYU. And to be honest, most of my decision, academics and student life aside, would be based upon perception. Regardless of whatever current trends or who is out recruiting who, I think Utah is perceived regionally and even moreso nationally as a better basketball program than BYU.
But then again if I were a D1 prospect who could play in the Big East, ACC or Pac 10, to hell with both BYU and Utah.
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Now, Majerus would have made it a tough choice, but Giac hasn't shown enough to merit consideration of Utah over BYU.
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