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Gordon Monson: 2019 was a year in a hurry for sports in the state of Utah. In some cases, the rush helped. In others ...

The years at the end of a decade, at the end of a century supposedly increase urgency for new invention and better performance, the natural calendar deadlines drawing a finish line that calls for a proper cap to everything that’s gone before.

Sports in the state of Utah in 2019 were in a hurry and, in some cases, the rush helped. In others, as the old grammatically challenged saying goes, the hurrier things went, the behinder they got.

The year launched with a positive — when Kyle Whittingham put the garbled hurry behind him at Utah’s offensive coordinator position by, at long last, hiring the right mind for that role: Andy Ludwig.