The Utah Basketball Rebuild Project Thread: 2013 and after

[Utah]

Great breakdown. We will be young, but talented. That's a great first step.

Here is another question: I know that Larry likes to schedule down to add up the wins. The football mentality. The bad thing is, unlike football, in basketball you actually need to schedule up to go dancing. BUT, we aren't dancing anyways.

So, what exactly is the point of scheduling down? Especially when you have your "core" group of guys for the next 2-3 years? I'd think that we'd want to significantly increase the OOC scheduling and see what happens. If we lose 5 OOC games, well, even if we finish third or fourth in the PAC-12, we weren't going dancing anyways.

But if we win those games, we make the tournament and set ourselves up very nicely for the next 2-3+ years.

So, why schedule down? What good does it do, other than have us miss the tournament...again.

[LA Ute]

Great breakdown. We will be young, but talented. That's a great first step.

Here is another question: I know that Larry likes to schedule down to add up the wins. The football mentality. The bad thing is, unlike football, in basketball you actually need to schedule up to go dancing. BUT, we aren't dancing anyways.

So, what exactly is the point of scheduling down? Especially when you have your "core" group of guys for the next 2-3 years? I'd think that we'd want to significantly increase the OOC scheduling and see what happens. If we lose 5 OOC games, well, even if we finish third or fourth in the PAC-12, we weren't going dancing anyways.

But if we win those games, we make the tournament and set ourselves up very nicely for the next 2-3+ years.

So, why schedule down? What good does it do, other than have us miss the tournament...again.

I'd be kind of surprised if LK schedules down in the future.