Utah, College Basketball is still an Old Man’s Game

Shower Thought - March 26, 2025

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What stuff do you still go to your parents for?

Your water heater's pilot light goes out, what's a Roth IRA, did The Sting win an Oscar, how do you parent children, should I get rental car insurance.

Boomers get made fun by snotty people online because they bought their homes in the 70's for what an E-Bike costs now, but you want a boomer around. It feels good. They're smarter than you, they always have a credit card that works.

This is college basketball.

With the advent of NIL and analytics a lot of people thought college basketball might morph like the NFL has. Young coaches with hair gel who know the advanced metrics: Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDaniel, but it hasn't.

College basketball is still about the boomer coach with slick hair charming moms in living rooms.

Sweet 16 coaches include John Calipari, Bruce Pearl, Kelvin Sampson, Tom Izzo, Rick Barnes, Matt Painter...maybe players parents still find comfort in sending their kid to be taken care of by a boomer?

Sure you got KYU and Pope and Dusty May who are young whipper snappers with iPads, but College Basketball is still run by the guys with AARP cards.

Shower Thought - March 25, 2025

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"Do you know these ice bath people? They wake up at 5am jump into a bathtub filled with ice cubes. And they get big rush out of it! They go on to have a great day selling Amway to their friends and family! It's really hard mentally to jump in that cold water I guess. And they figure, we've got it cushy these days. We've got minky couture blankets, cars that drive for us, lulu lemon pants. We're not working on the farm anymore or in the mines like your granddads. So these overachievers want to introduce forced adversity in their life. It makes em feel good. I think Ryan Smith understands this idea.

We've got 70,000 kids in junior jazz, they're all wearing their steph curry jerseys, flinging up threes, sweat bands, they're doing the three goggles after every shot, they're idolizing LeBron and Luka and the other guy. Ryan Smith is saying you know what, I'm putting ice rinks in every city in Utah. We need our kids to be more like hockey players. Cold, getting punched in the face, high sticked, cross checked, bloodied, toothless. Life is too easy now with the Pokemon, tik tok, bluey, crustless peanut butter and jelly, shootin threes we got enough of those. We need to get some hockey players in this state. Way to go Ryan!"