Comments about ‘Utah State basketball: Aggies surprised a few with success’

It was a great season. The Aggies are one or two impact players away from 1) completely dominating the WAC (no more half-hearted efforts on the road to teams they should beat)and 2) finally winning a game or two in the NCAAs. Inflicting a very humiliating loss to BYU would also make for a great 2009-2010 season as well. Good luck with recruiting Stew!! Find a couple of nasty bad boys to wear Aggie blue next year!!

I too was so impressed with the Aggies this year. Amazing run, and they represented the school and cache valley so well. Thanks team! We will miss Gary W., but I am really excited about next year as well.

A hard act to follow but the Aggies certainly have the players to do it and their coach is the best! We'll be looking forward to next year. As for the loss to Marquette, one only has to look at what the Big East has done in the playoffs to confirm that the Aggies came very close to beating a powerful team with a strong tournament history.

I understand their will be critics of the schedule, fair enough. However this article is spot on in that nobody, myself included, thought the Ags would steam roll through the WAC. The WAC was not overly difficult but Nevada has two guys who like previous teams will probably end up in the league. We didn't seem to have the athleticism to compete at times either, but in the end we rolled ocnference and rolled in the WAC tourney.

There will always be naysayers but the fact is this team did more with less, in fact they did much more with less than probably most of the Aggie teams I have seen through the years. The biggest factor in that was Jared Quayle, Tai and Gary, were as advertised but Quayle didn't even start the BYU game and once inserted the team took a different look. Don't worry Cougar fans I am not implying we would have won but to any Aggie fan who watched the team, we were so much better with Quayle in there over Mayer it wasn't even close.

Again big props to Stew, nice season Aggies!!!

Excellent article, Jared. This season will be one Aggie fans will talk about for years, along with 2001 and 2004.

Though they had the lowest seed of the three instate schools the Aggies represented the state far better than the two MWC schools. Utah was the worst as they had the best seed and lost worse on a nuetral court than Weber did at Tucson to a very mediocre Arizona team. Hopefully all three (plus Weber) can make it back next year and compete better

the Aggies proved that they were indeed the best team in the state hands down!

Pleasantly surprised with the success this year after the loss of Jaycee. Stew continues to show that he is one of the greatest coaches this state has ever had.

Looking forward to dominating the WAC and MWC next year.

Go Big Blue!!!

Don't count on to much for next year. There will be multiple players leaving this year, not just Gary!

... and these multiple players are?

Looks like one other player will be gone that didn't play much this past season.

Look for the Aggies to have their first winning football season this fall followed up by a domination of the state and WAC in basketball next year.

It is good to be true blue!!!

Oh really? Just who exactly will be leaving besides Gary? Put up or shut up, anonymous internet poster guy.

Congratulations on another NCAA Tournament defeat Logan State. That makes Napoleon Dynamite, aka, Stew Morrill 1-5 in NCAA Tournament games. Have fun at the Huntsman Center next year.

I was pleasantly surprised at the season this year and had a blast watching. I just wish we'd swallow our pride a little and do a couple of years worth of 2 for 1's and schedule some quality opponents instead of the softies we do. Utah got a 5 seed because they had a tough non-conference schedule, we should learn from them. How much better would it be to actually have a chance to get into the sweet 16 as opposed to just being happy to get there.

At least USU showed up at the tournament. The Utes with a nice 5 seed showed they didn't belong in the tournament.

Looking forward to beating the U again!

Go Big Blue!!!

are awesome! We are the best and we all know it. Our team rocks and our coach is a stud! Way to exceed all expectations this year Aggies! Stew will continue to have a team that out works everyone and we'll continue to impress!!! Great year boys!

Good job with the coverage this year Jared! Thank you!!! Keep us posted! There is always something good to say about us!

First off shut your pie hole and just watch. If you think Gary is the only one leaving then you are dumb as a rock.........

Jared, you are the best. You made following the Aggies the best ever! I hope you are back next year. It wouldn't be the same without you! Keep up the great work!

just up at the athletic training facility and we have two coming in and one "other" recruit that is big, meaning that yes there may be a player currently scholarshipped that may not be next year. Certainly not as the posters above are trying to make it sound negative, very positive. I know we have two solid commits but the third possibility would be a big pickup. Not to mention we have Bendall coming for SLCC.

Shaping up nicely for next season.

Rumors are rumors until we hear something official. Perhaps Skyler Halford, Dominique Cooks, & Clint Lee won't be back next year along with the lost of Gary Wilkinson to graduation. If those three choose to leave, I wish them the best of luck in their other pursuits. The Aggies will return their core next year and will do just fine. I suspect that the new recruits coming in will have a big impact. Thanks for a great season, this team exceeded expectations and gained some valuable experience. Let's go Aggies!!!