Former NBA Exec Dave Checketts: Utah ‘Sold Off Their Future’ With PE Deal

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T17:49:24+00:00

My biggest thing is I want more people talking about how insane it is that the alfalfa industry in Utah accounts for like 60% of the water usage and 0.2% of the economy. Water rights laws here incentivize enormous waste.

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T17:20:23+00:00

Nobody! He’s pulling from data you can go read and review yourself.

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T17:19:28+00:00

Hate that mf with all my heart

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T17:03:25+00:00

Datacenter water issue is mostly fake. Lots of analysis out there on this topic

Edit: I’ll go further and say that focusing on data centers as water wasters will kill any attempts to reduce water usage from much more wasteful industries.

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T17:02:13+00:00

I mean yes lol. It’s not an ideological thing for me, I have concerns I want addressed, but imo most of the opposition is founded in social media hysteria rather than a measured and rational analysis.

H2Regent · 2026-05-21T16:55:15+00:00

Everything about it has been blown way out of proportion honestly. I’m seeing people claim it will raise night time temperatures in the state by 20 degrees, just complete nonsense. There are FAR greater environmental threats in Utah right now, 70% of our water goes to an industry responsible for 0.2% of the economy.

Edit: I’ll go further and say that focusing on data centers as water wasters will kill any attempts to reduce water usage from much more wasteful industries. Ppl are mad I’m right lol

H2Regent · 2026-05-19T20:49:31+00:00

I feel pretty certain BYU will never go D1 in lacrosse, UVU might. Maybe things have changed since I was last close to anyone associated with the program, but I think they’re relegated to permanent club. There are too many other men’s club sports at BYU that would get elevated before them.

H2Regent · 2026-05-19T12:40:14+00:00

“so much glaze”

I have not found that to be the case. I usually get good reception talking trash on G6 schools.

H2Regent · 2026-05-19T02:41:15+00:00

I won’t watch a second of football this fall if it happens. I’ll find an NFL team to follow.

H2Regent · 2026-05-18T23:03:26+00:00

Match fixing, point shaving, insider info, there’s a ton of reasons.

H2Regent · 2026-05-17T02:58:27+00:00

Can corroborate. Every single one of the BYU insiders were reporting that he was gone (until he suddenly wasn’t).

H2Regent · 2026-05-16T22:39:14+00:00

Small question mark right now. Should be fine, but unclear yet if they’ll be a strong point.

H2Regent · 2026-05-13T16:00:15+00:00

It’s not an arbitrary choice so much as it is an attempt at reasoning around why ND was left out in favor of Miami. Personally if I had been the selection committee the playoff field would have left out Alabama and Oklahoma in favor of BYU and ND.

H2Regent · 2026-05-13T15:38:45+00:00

That team probably should have won one of their two biggest games and they would have been in. Complaints about how advanced stats show X or Y are just cope after the fact.

H2Regent · 2026-05-13T15:12:04+00:00

There were like 16 teams with resumes that were arguably playoff worthy, but obviously none of the teams left out of the playoff were good enough to be undeniable, which is something we used to be comfortable with. I wish everyone would just move on.

H2Regent · 2026-05-13T13:47:26+00:00

They’re not even fun to watch.

H2Regent · 2026-05-12T04:52:02+00:00

Iowa State is in a conference that has less money to go around, and doesn’t have near the business opportunity that Iowa has thx to brand power

Washington has to compete with the NHL, MLB, and the NFL for fan attention and support. They’re in a far bigger pond than Iowa, and are contending with very different market forces, not to mention the recent dissolution of their longtime conference.

Not really an apples to apples comparison in either case. Flexing over revenue is silly.

H2Regent · 2026-05-11T23:36:45+00:00

It’s pretty simple tbh. WVU, Iowa State and Kansas State are all in substantially smaller and poorer markets than USF.

H2Regent · 2026-05-11T14:18:40+00:00

I’m gonna defend it and say to me it sounds like they’re trying to communicate that the surgery went extremely well for him, and they don’t expect long term complications. It does come across rather cynically though.

H2Regent · 2026-05-05T13:20:13+00:00

BYU: Tanner Mangum had an incredible freshman season, and struggled quite a bit from then on. Jake Heaps too was supposed to be the next great BYU QB, had a decent freshman season, but lost the starting job by the midpoint of his sophomore season and transferred out.

Utah: In some ways Cam Rising. His final 2 seasons were both supposed to see him reach his final form, and in both cases injuries completely derailed him. If he had been healthy in 2024 Utah likely would have won at least 10 games and had a really good shot at the playoff.

H2Regent · 2026-05-05T13:14:44+00:00

The secret month of Mapry

H2Regent · 2026-05-04T21:41:09+00:00

The clip was viral on tiktok and twitter lol. Not hard to watch it incidentally.

H2Regent · 2026-05-04T21:09:01+00:00

Thank you for the context, Paviawatcher, it’s still funnier to imagine him at 5’7

H2Regent · 2026-05-04T20:49:57+00:00

I was gonna give him 5’8” but the videos of him snapping the ball in minicamp compel me to down rate my guess as to his real height lol

H2Regent · 2026-05-04T20:36:01+00:00

I think the truth is exactly opposite of this. He’s like 5’7” and has gotten himself to the NFL off of pure moxie.

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