OT: Observation about Utah's bball team

Its very off-topic since we don't play them next year, but I've been seeing lots of news about Utah basketball. They have now lost half of their roster from this past season:

Graduation/consumed eligibility

Brandon Taylor-starter

Dakarai Tucker

Jordan Loveridge-starter

Austin Eastman*walk-on grad student

NBA Draft

Jakob Poeltl-starter

Transfer out

Chris Reyes - Pepperdine

Isaiah Wright - San Diego

Brekkott Chapman - Weber State? - Was expected to start in 2016-17



This means they retain only 2 starters (Bonam and Kuzma) and then will have seniors Ogbe and Bealer to go with 2nd year players Connor, Johnson, Mawien, and Montgomery.

Incoming they have:

Tyler Rawson - junior F from SLCC

Jojo Zamora - soph G from Yuba College

Parker Van Dyke - soph G returning from mission

Devon Daniels - G - Class of 2016

Sedrick Barefield - soph G- transfer from SMU - not eligible until after Fall 2016

David Collette - junior F - transfer from Utah State - not eligible until after Fall 2016



By my count that puts them at 14 bodies--2 of which can't play until late December. Should be interesting to watch how they do.

Obviously just clearing cap space for Mika's transfer.

I knew about the seniors and Poeltl leaving obviously. I had no idea about the guys who are transferring out. Those will hurt. Hard to imagine them being very good, which means even if we did play them next year it wouldn't have helped our NCAA resume anyway.

I would also say that looking at utah's depleted roster and also seeing that the pre-season brackets mostly all still have Utah in them anyway tells me why pre-season bracketology is always pure nonsense.

Are you starting to see why Chris Hill and Coach 80K were so desperate for a pre-text to call of the next game while they had a nice win streak going against the Cougs?

It's going to come back to bite them. Next year when BYU is good and Utah is bad, the media will be talking about Utah choosing not to play BYU in Provo in a year when BYU would kick their butts.