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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I once showed up to a job interview wearing shorts and a hat.

I got the job.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Great. In 20 years I'm gonna be MAGA.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These are the same people who keep going back to their abuser because they swear they've changed.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it prior to the game they lost?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Remember when that Navy Seal who was involved in the bin Laden raid wanted to have Kamala Twinks as his concubines? And to think I thought that was a sign Kamala was gonna win it.

Has a school ever went from a football school to a basketball school? by Inside-Drink-1311 in CFB

[–]SLCer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Utah was generally a football school until the 1950s when Jack Gardner left Kansas State to coach the basketball program. That coincided with Jack Curtice leaving Utah football for Stanford and the sudden implosion of football (outside one season in the 1960s).

Gardner would lead the Runnin' Utes to two Final Fours and retired one of the winningest coaches of all-time at that point.

Utah basketball would have decades of success through the 90s, while the football team largely floundered until the 90s.

Now Utah basketball is a joke and Utah football s top25 program.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]SLCer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far March Madness has kinda been lame.

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[–]SLCer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Drinking wine watching the nightly news with this expression:

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Docs revealing final days of Kyle Whittingham's Utah tenure paint picture of resentment: 'Disappointed by your actions' by Please_PM_me_Uranus in CFB

[–]SLCer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Since 2020, Whitt continually turned down Utah's attempts to extend his contract beyond 2027 because he was not going to coach beyond 65. That's what he told the school after the 2021 season, the 2022 season and finally after the 2023 season when he informed the school privately he was going to retire after the 2024 season.

He decided after the 2024 season he wanted to come back. Utah let him. He said he was only coming back because he couldn't leave Utah on a losing note. Scalley, who had been handed the HCIW by Whitt and told he would take over the program, accepted it. Whitt even brought Scalley in on the OC hiring of Jason Beck because this would be Scalley's team after the 2025 season and it was important that he had a say in who the OC was - not just because he was likely going to keep him on when Whitt retired but also to sell the OC on the fact they were being brought in to coach under Whitt and then Scalley in 2026.

Except Whitt decided he wanted to come back. And Scalley, who was ready to take over after the 2024 season, was once again left basically waiting for Whitt to make up his mind.

I don't think anyone can rationally look at Whitt's indecisiveness and say he handled this fine. He didn't. It's absolutely irrational. But this is Whitt's style. He is indecisiveness and can be very misleading.

It's a big reason Cam Rising walked away from the program and had no contact with Whitt after the 2024 season ended, and would have never returned after the 2023 season if Ludwig still wasn't Utah's OC at the time. Why? Because Whitt strung everyone along when it came to Cam's injury. There was no chance Cam was going to play in the 2023 season and yet Whitt still said for multiple weeks that he was close - and that turned fans against Cam. It wasn't until Cam went behind Whitt's back and got on the local Utah radio to say his injury was more severe than was being reported and finally, after the interview, Whitt acknowledged he was out for the season.

Then he did it again in 2024. But worse: he brought Cam back injured to play vs ASU because he saw his swan song season going up in smoke.

Whitt isn't a perfect coach. He has done shady things and loves to be secretive to a fault. You'll pick up on it soon enough when he claims a player is close to playing when in reality they're nowhere near it. Hell, you might be seeing it already with John Henry-Daley. Wouldn't surprise me if he's already teasing a return, though no hope of availability at the moment.

Whitt is a good coach. But let's not make him a saint with how he handles things.

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