Morgan Scalley has been waiting.Now, his time is finally here.A day after Kyle Whittingham announced he was stepping down as the University of Utah’s football coach, Scalley was officially named his successor.

It happened again Saturday night at the Delta Center in the Salt Lake Showcase, where the Runnin’ Utes blew a 17-point lead and lost 82-74 to Mississippi State. With the loss, the Utes fell to 7-4 on the season, while Mississippi State improved to 5-5.

While other schools like Clemson and Kentucky have spun off similar entities, Utah would be the first to include outside investors.

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This is the “threat to a representative form of government” that is in the “back of everybody’s mind,” Cullimore said. Regardless of the issue it appears that “outside money,” with its focus on “billboards” and “30-second sound bites” could be gaining greater sway over Beehive State politics.