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Might be a long first year in the B10 eh? I didn't see Carsen Ryan play in our spring game. We are pretty loaded with talent at TE with Landon King and Brant Kuithe, But there is no way Ryan doesn't play. He's too talented and productive. I'm guessing a lot of jumbo packages along with some catches. He's a big boy. Kuithe and King could play some WR. Both are tall but not 250 lbs. Outside of Oregon, Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State, I don't know who is supposed to be good this year. USC is a hit and miss operation and I think Brennan was a terrible choice as UW's coach. Michigan should be up there unless Moore can't coach. UCLA was picked 14th in the pre-season spring power rankings by Athlon. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-football-spring-2024-power-rankings

First thing we should do is make HLB a mod. That way he can stop all the unfair treatment of him and racial slander. Nobody knows college athletics better than that guy.

All I know is I won't ever be posting on any board with you on it going forward. I hate all B10 fans. They are rude and classless. Especially Oregon fans. Consider this my walking papers if you stay on this board.

I like the West Board idea. Hopefully that would get some new traffic too.

You also have to wonder if there’s been any back tracking on NIL from OSU’s collective or whatever they have. Top talent wants to go to and be recruited by power schools. And boosters are more likely to be invested as well.

@Chile_Ute, any relation to chileduck? I think you both are related to HLB. Your half brother. lol.

Bingo on the timing. We can adjust this early. Unlike fall camp a week before the season. We had a lot of that last year. Brandon Rose for example. Damuni came into his own last year. It will be nice to have Barton Back. Let's hope he holds up. He's All American NFL talent. Reid isn't half bad either. And he's been durable.

Big loss for Utah. He’s a stud. I hate non season injuries. We had a ton last year. https://www.deseret.com/sports/2024/04/02/utah-lineback-levani-damuni-injury/

Wipe out. The Huntsman Center party was over as soon as we got on the airplane. I was pretty close on my margin of victory. I’ll tell you right now, I’m not going to be able to buy into Smith’s philosophy with such terrible defense. It’s been awful all year. ISU shot 57 fucking % from the field. lol. Our free throw % as a team has also been terrible. That’s just bad coaching and lazy players. Our team can shoot jumpers. Great game for Deivon. Career high.

Tonight the party stops for Utah. This will be a road game for the Utes. Lol. We love the road. Indiana St by 10-12 points.

Yeah. I mentioned Worster here the other day. There would be a lot more chatter on Smith if it were true. Nothing on him yet. And I hope not.

Thanks for looking this up. It would be interesting to see if the disparity continues in the P12 tourney consistently. That would be an example of true bias in the P12. Not just at home.

Houston nowhere near as good without injured Shead.

Haven’t seen anything. Definitely newsworthy around here if it’s true.

@Chile_Ute, we just landed a sweet transfer. Not sure what college he came from but he played high school ball at someplace called Hickory? Decent shooter I hear. Likes to “take the last shot”. Jimmy Chitworth or something.

Did he hit the portal? Not that I’ve seen. Otherwise I’m 99% sure he has 1 year of eligibility left with the Covid year.

Rollie Worster to the portal. Bye-bye my injury prone friend.

The refs again bug? Not saying there isn't some truth to this but it would be interesting to see what their average amount of times to the line is in conference, home and away and then in Tourney games. I've noticed how many fans of all conferences always complain about officiating. It's human nature. I'd like to see some data behind this.

I had Iowa State in the Elite 8 and I had AZ/ UNC playing in the Elite 8. For the B12 to be the “ strongest” conference with only Houston left, might be a dud year. Duke is playing well enough to beat them but Houston is damn good.

I’m not sure about this. I think Oregon, CU and WSU exceeded NCAA tourney expectations this year. At one point we were 6-0 in the dance. With everyone advancing to the second round including beating better seeds. If the conference was weak, you’d have a lot more 1 and dones.

Sad really. His accusations are based on lack of understanding of basic migration patterns in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as to why western states are “racist” because of lack of black population. Only a fool would interpret a call out as a “ racist “ remark when the person is just pointing out character flaws for that specific person and not the color of their skin. The real racism here is accusing white people of racism for any questionable comment not having anything to do with race. That’s a huge problem in our society. Blaming “the man” for all your problems is just childish and ignorant. You of all people I view as a person looking out for equality in all races, genders, sexual orientation etc.

You can’t argue facts. I don’t get it. Miller’s peak was the elite 8. No offense to AZ fans here but that’s a lot of talent to get bounced early this year and 1st round last year.

Good thing?

Sign me up for this one. We get Worster back next year. But he's injury prone. Deivon can come back too but it would be nice to have a better guard line and more depth. Rice is already a star in my book. Erickson(BYU transfer) is not the answer. He's pretty much a glorified ward ball player.

We discussed it earlier. Utah’s cupboard is bare next year unless we make a splash in the portal. CU’s Lampkin is now in the portal, I’d take him if he would come. He seems to have issues sticking at one place. But even if we get him for 1 year, we’d be better. I also mentioned we’ve pretty much got our ass kicked in the P12 the last 6-7 years so going to a much better basketball conference next year doesn’t leave Utah fans a lot of hope. I think all the 4 corners except AZ will get smashed next year in the B12. I think AZ will be much like Houston was going to the B12. A seamless transition.