I'm assuming that he transferred from AZ

Happy new year everyone! Let's hope it starts with a bang in the Rose Bowl!

Random but fun story. I just got a picture texted to me from an old manager with someone that they met in a JFK airport bar. She and her boyfriend are on their way to the Rose Bowl and started chatting with some fellow Utes that were wearing Utah gear. Eventually, one of the women they were chatting with randomly asked if my old manager if they knew a Sean Davenport, and my old manager said yes. It turns out that my old manager just met my younger sister's roommate from when she was a freshman at Utah. Small world! And as always, go Utes!

Yes it’s very early in the Pac 12 basketball season but our Runnin Utes are in FIRST place, even if it only last for a short period of time. They’re playing hard, and coming together as a team. It’s definitely time for Utah fans to start showing up at the Huntsman and at least filling up the LOERT bowl with Pac 12 season here. This team deserves and has already earned our support. I only wish I lived in Utah and I could show up for every home game.

Josh Furlong reported today that Yassmin confirmed what I’ve been telling everyone on here. He’s leaning towards coming back.

A lot of this has to do with him finally getting an opportunity and seeing all of the success.

Just awful news…

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Let’s take a statistical look at Penn State as Sean sees the similarities between the two, plus their strengths, question marks and x-factor:
https://utah.rivals.com/news/rose-bowl-opponent-preview-penn-state

The cornerback will have one year to play. He’s a former 4-star recruit. Article coming.
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Maybe this would be easy for some of you, but I'm having a tough time:

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Utes get a tall corner with lots of SEC experience via the transfer portal:

Between Cal and Utah, the Utes were the better of two cold teams:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-runnin-utes-defeat-cal-58-43

If anything breaks like Battle, I promise we’ll get to it as soon as we can. Halie and I are both traveling today, so Sean is keeping a look-out.

Utah’s starting five: Braden Carlson, Ben Carlson, Gabe Madsen, Marco Anthony, Rollie Worster.

Old UteNation friend, Kevin Noon, reached out to me recently asking if I’d like an opponent’s perspective on Penn State. Give it a read:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/rose-bowl-q-a-a-chat-with-a-big-ten-friend

We did not see Jaylon Glover late in the season. I know he was injured at one point, but I am not sure if he was healthy and did not play or if he was still recovering from his injury. Do we expect him to play in the Rose Bowl?

I am probably living too much in the past. I usually have lots of fun interacting with fans of other teams. My worst experience as a fan was receiving a bunch of aggressive religious verbal abuse dished out by a group of Penn St fans trying to pick a fight after the NIT game in Madison Square Garden. It was all I could do to stay silent; I wanted to wheel around and say, "Really? Ever heard of a guy named Sandusky?" Fortunately I held back and lived to tell the tale.

Hey guys! Rich Schnyderite here, publisher of Nittany Nation aka the Penn State-Rivals site. Just wanted to drop by and post video / audio from Penn State head coach James Franklin and Utah HC Kyle Whittingham's press conference today to preview the Rose Bowl.

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https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2022/12/28/qa-utah-womens-basketball-coach/

This team is so fun and exciting to watch! Get out and support the UNDEFEATED and absolutely BEST team in the state right now! I bought season tix for $25 so its cheap and fun

LETS GO UTES!!!!

NittanyNation’s Justin Morganstein shares his insight into a Penn State team with a lot of similarities to Utah:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/rose-bowl-q-a-penn-state

Here’s a link to my Q&A with Penn State:

https://pennstate.rivals.com/news/behind-enemy-lines-q-a-with-utesnation-previewing-the-rose-bowl

For any of you who would like to watch my Rose Bowl Preview episodes, here they are:

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Now we know why the Athletics department was doing that fun list last night. Arnie Ferrin has passed away at 97.

https://utah.rivals.com/news/utah-athletics-mourns-the-passing-of-arnie-ferrin

We’ve entered Rose Bowl game week! Let’s take a look at the burning questions:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/burning-questions-utes-ready-for-the-rose-bowl

He would have ran for 1,500-2,000 yards this year and been in the Heisman conversation. He was truly remarkable.

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First off, I don’t have a prediction. Basically both sides feel confident. The Colorado said it s confident, but without real confirmation. The Utah side gave me significantly higher odds than you’d think for a transfer that seems like a 50/50 toss-up.

Seydou needs to figure a new YouTube follower goal that’s even less than 8.5k that he’s still trying to get before announcing today, because 10k isn’t happening. Hell he’d need over 10 finalists’ fanbases for that to happen.