Tribune columnist Gordon Monson thinks the Utes and the Cougars are heading in different directions. Here's why.
Utah takes to the field as the Utah Utes host the Oregon Ducks, NCAA football in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023.
Proud Utah basketball fans, objective ones at least, might be getting around to acknowledging the aforementioned as fact. The Utes have historically had their roundball moments, and there’s no need to review them all here. But the drought, if that’s the right word for it, Utah hoops has suffered has coincided with the school’s good news: a rise in Utah football.There’s no arguing that, of all the coaches at Utah, Kyle Whittingham is the monarch.
Whittingham always is quick to admit that the foundation upon which his program is built is recruiting. It’s not that he and his staff have garnered what were in large numbers considered to be the best recruits and transfers in the country, but they’ve done two things to counter that. They’ve recognized and invited in athletes who may not have all been 4- and 5-star guys, but players who could grow into formidable forces.
The BYU bench goes wild as the team makes up an early deficit to take down TCU 87-75 during an NCAA college basketball game against TCU Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Provo, Utah. And there don’t appear to be a whole lot of promises for whatever comes next, other than additional hardships in lifting the deal out of its current subterranean gulch. The stars at key skill positions of the past, the ones who transformed BYU football 50 years ago and continued its prowess in later decades, are now scarce, if not absent.
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