Comments about ‘Utah State basketball: Morrill talks with Washington State’

USU has one sport going VERY STRONG!!! They better do whatever it takes to keep him where he belongs, at USU!!!

I can't blame Stew for listening to what a Pac 10 school had to offer, but hopefully he'll remain an Aggie.

...this is Stew's way to get the University to make him a committment to building a new indoor practice facility for the basketball program. Memo to USU A.D.'s office: do whatever it takes to keep this man in Logan - in my 35 years as an Aggie sports fan, Stew Morrill is hands down the best thing to ever happen to us!

I agree, the outdoor practice facility is terrible

You can't blame a man going to another school to coach if he can make double the money still doing what he loves. I do agree that this man needs to stay at USU and would hate to see him leave. Looks like the athletic fee increase just may go to Coach Morrill :) Stew....knowing you probably read these; we want you here at USU and this basketball program relies on a good coaching staff.

Stay or go I wish Stew the very best. He has lifted our hoops program to levels it hasn't experienced before. Yes the post season record lacks punch but he does win conference championships and get to the post season with regularity.

Stew is an outstanding person as well, good for him looking at some offers. He certainly can coach at a higher level. Not to say USU can't take him there but there is an increase you get being a PAC-10 school coach vs. a WAC school coach.

Hope he stays but I do wish him the best either way. Good luck Stew.

Coming from the commercial banking sector, trust me that it is worth taking a bit of a pay cut to have a LOT LESS STRESS! This is the same reason Stew has turned down countless offers from bigger schools.

He has a lifetime job at USU in a nice community and a steady program and conference that he knows well and dominates in. For that money, WSU and others will expect him to dominate or at least finish near the top in their conferences and that is really hard to do! Major Stress and then his job will not be nearly as secure unless he consistantly achieves those unrealistic expectations!
I am not saying it is not tempting, just telling you how I see it and I wish him the best either way!

Follow the money

USU must keep this guy. He is a major star in the hoops coaching world. I believe Morrill wanted very much to coach the Cougars -- and that he would have been the best BYU coach in history.

That did not happen . . . and perhaps coaching in Pullman will give Stew the chance to "finally coach the Cougars."

The PAC-10 is such a rugged hoops conference. Pullman is a dreary little town -- much, much smaller than Logan and very little quality of life.

I earned my PhD there -- and thought Pullman was "a great place for a monastery." I hope the Aggies will give Morrill half a million reasons (per year) to continue to coach in Logan.

Wow...Lets all hope that Stew makes the best Long Term decision and stays with USU. The banker from above is right...He would be trading in a secure job for a higher pay higher risk position. Stew - All Aggie faithful want you here in Logan. We all know you will be a winner no matter where you coach, but we would rather that be in Logan. Go Aggies!

"Big Time" Stew can't win a tourney game.

I doubt Stew would want to coach the Y Cougars. He has been in Logan for a while. Logan and USU have been great to him and the relationship is mutual. If I was a betting man my money would be on Stew staying where he is at. Hope I'm right!!!

Morrill is inactive LDS and his wife isn't LDS. Believe what you want, but he doesn't now, and never has, wanted to coach BYU. If Stew isn't happy in Logan, and thinks he can do better at Washington State, he should take the job if offered. Randy Rahe would make a fine USU head coach.

It is hard to imagine a better life than doing what you love, in Cache Valley, for close to half a million a year. I disagree with a previous poster about Pullman. The Pullman-Moscow area is beautiful and you could have a very nice life at 1 million per year. But as was also stated, the stress factor would be kicked up a great deal as well. I say get a nice little bump, eventually retire in one of the coolest towns (Logan) in the country, and keep pumping out those WAC Championships! I'm a Cougar fan but also love seeing USU and Utah do well. And IMO, Logan is a much, much better place to live in than the bubble of Provo.

Actually, Pullman is a fun city, much livelier than Logan. WSU has got a great athletic tradition and plays in a wonderful conference. Take the job, stew. You deserve it. And he could still catch the USU football games up at WSU stadium where the Ags and Idaho Vandals play every other year.

Get out of Logan while you still can.

While academics at USU are taking a furlough and pay cut, we're paying this guy a half a million to play games? And now he wants a multi-million dollar facility so his half dozen guys can play their games in luxury, or he'll take his ball and leave? I say go and good riddance!

Who in their right mind would ever want to live in Provo? The place is full of sanctimonious Mormons, you know the ones that monitor your shopping cart for beer or don't want your kid to play with their kids because you go to a different church.
Stay at USU unless of course you want to come down to the U and we can send our coach over to the bowling team.

How come there are no articles/comments yet about Boylen at Arizona. It's being reported in the Arizona papers, but nothing here in Utah.

Dave Rose...BYU
Roger Reid...SUU
Boylin....Utah
UVSC coach
Judkins at Dixie St
Norm Parrish SLCC...maybe even the 2nd best!


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Stew Morill... Aggie, never past the first round. Doesn't play anybody in pre season, and the WAC is worst than SLCC junior college league. The WAC is TERRIBLE,anybody could win 30 games in that league if you were half decent! NO chance he goes to Washington St, hes probably the 3rd or 4th option and is to scared to coach in the PAC 10, a real conference. A UTE!

That would last for a hundred years.

Stew Morill at WSU would last 2-3 years and then a possible firing.