At halftime my new bride and I are sitting on the west steps of RES watching the sunset. We decide to go for a walk so we go down the large ramp toward the concessions behind the sound end zone. Half way down there’s a dude pissing on the wall. My wife, a NYC transplant, yells to the loser “what the hell are you doing?” I say “come on man, show a little class.” His half drunk response is “the lines are too long.”

Then behind us comes a mother/daughter. The daughter is maybe 8 or 9. They see this guy and the mother gives him hell too. The dude finishes, zips his pants up and actually starts getting in the grill of this mother.

I walk a few more feet and tap a cop on the shoulder and ask her to do something about this loser, and “she” follows him into the crowd. I didn’t see if the guy was ejected from the game or arrested or what. I sure hope he was.

This was a terribly disappointing event last night. This sort of thing simply should not happen in front of hundreds of people.

Memo to drunk aholes: If you’re too much of a loser to hold down your natty lights, stay home. We don’t need you.

I’ve been very busy lately, and haven’t had the time to put into doing some Ute blogging.

My apologies. I’ll get back to it in the fall when football season starts.

It was a tough loss yesterday but still a great game. For the first time since Bogut left I’m excited about our prospects and the potential I’m seeing in this team.

The Good

First I’m very exited about having a center who can actually move, catch, shoot and most of all, walk and chew gum at the same time. Not only that, we have TWO. Very promising.

Tillie made a manly rebound and put back yesterday in action unlike last year. He’s much more assertive and strong down low this year. He’s more beefy. This is good.

Brown was a bit of a head case last night but did come through in the clutch with the basket to tie with 7 seconds left. But had he not missed three FT’s in a row, we may not have needed to go into OT to win the game.

Henderson has the potential to be REALLY good. This kid as fire and can shoot, even though he went a bit cold in the 2nd half yesterday. And did anyone see him SKY for that put back attempt which didn’t count? I had NO idea he could jump like that.

Watkins is a MAN. I like this guy. He is tough. He was too scared to shoot from outside last night and that obviously isn’t his strength. But I’m liking this guy.

Team rebounding, even against some tough teams, is really getting better. This doesn’t suck.

The Bad

Freethrows. We make ‘em, we win. That sucked yesterday. I long for the days when we led the nation in FT%. I guess it helped to have Van Horn shooting most of them.

Drca. Yes this guy has raw talent. There is no doubt. He can make passes that nobody else can. But he is out of control. I’ve never heard the Ute home crowd, thousands of them, cry “nooooooooooooo” when I guy gets the ball in the waning seconds of a close game until Drca came around.

The Future

The future for Utah basketball is bright. I feel this for the first time in years.