The sign adorns the backstop of the Utah practice field, a reminder of how the baseball team won the Ute athletic department's only Pac-12 championship in men's sports.
Ute coach Bill Kinneberg believes his program is where that 2016 group once was – in its developing stage, anyway.
“I hate to call it rebuilding or anything, but we are young,” said Kinneberg, whose team opens the season Friday at Texas State. “It's somewhat close to where we were two years before we won the championship.”
The Utes enjoyed a two-year stay in the top half of the Pac-12, before reverting to the program’s former status.