Jon M. Huntsman Center

TCU is at number 13, Oklahoma State at 15, and Arizona State at 23.

Of those teams, Utah will get Oklahoma State and Arizona State in the Huntsman Center, and they will play TCU and Arizona State on the road, with Iowa, of course, being in the Bahamas.

Let's go over to the men's side for a small but not great recruiting update.

RJ Moore, a four-star guard who had Utah in his top six, committed to Rutgers over the opening weekend of college football.

Right.

But I've – even with having to park at – Just by the Huntsman Center.

I get in my steps when I cover Utah games.

Down the hill.

I did not like Jason Tatum the first time I saw him.

He was playing up at the Huntsman Center against Donovan Mitchell, and they had this very famous kind of great back and forth.

Now Jason's become a much better player.

Ironically, the reason I didn't like Jason—and I was kind of off on this because it's one of the reasons you do like Ace now because of just what Realize has to exist in the NBA— Jason early on like his game was so dependent on hitting crazy difficult shots I was like is he gonna be able to do that in the NBA like it's kind of what Jabari Parker tried to do and it didn't really work out now Jabari didn't get in shape and never tried to play defense and that was Jabari's problem the shot making really wasn't an issue but I was like oh Jason has to take such difficult shots can he not make easier shots can he not make his life easier Because a lot of the great players, they make it look easy.

Uh, by the time we finish our, the hiring process, some of our top people in our, in our revenue, uh, production teams, particularly in, in ticket sales and corporate sales and those kinds of things have moved into that group.

And they're, you know, they're two minute drive from, from where I sit in my office in the Huntsman center.

Um, you know, I, I think the, our why was pretty simple, right? Sold out football stadium, um, record donations, um, doing everything we can to maximize revenue opportunities.

But there comes a time where, you know, you can't keep cranking tickets up every year and get above what your studies show.

Right.

No one is feared coming in to play at the Jon M. Huntsman Center.

I wish I was wrong about that, but as someone who's been to a number of Utah basketball games, they don't pack it out.

In fact, oftentimes they have curtains up top they have to close because it's not full enough of fans, and it's just unfortunate.

But it was-

When I w- when I walked from the parking lot, which is up by the Huntsman Center, m- my shoes and socks were soaked.

Yeah.

Ridiculous.

in our facilities.

You know, we just announced we're going to do a big renovation here of Huntsman Center.

We want to keep leaning in.

And how do you how do you is the fundraising for that the same as traditional or are you able to tap into some of these funds for that? Like how is that? We can

certainly do that.

We can certainly do that if we need to.

The Huntsman Center project isn't directly contracted with with Crimson Brand Partners and Ocho.

So we'll do some good old fashioned fundraising, which, by the way, still stays in the department.

And so I think, I think of all the times my dad rebounded for me, and now I get to do that for my son, and there's just nothing in the world that I wanna do more than that.

And so I can't imagine, like, the memories that are in the Huntsman Center and the memories that you have there.

Wow.

And now your son is able to do that at the same time.

Anyway, Beacon Heights is right outside my, our kitchen door.

And my, and this is how spoiled he is.

"Hey, can we go to the Huntsman Center and shoot?" "Well, the Huntsman Center and shoot? I mean, there's a basket right here.

You just walk outside, climb the fence and..." Well, well, yeah.