Mark Harlan didn’t have much time to soak in the new digs. He was introduced as Utah’s new athletic director, said all the things you say at that kind of event, flashed “the U” a few times and had to hit the airport around 1:30 Monday afternoon. The move to Salt Lake City will soon be underway, but Utah’s new athletic director had to return to Tampa, Fla., with his family to begin the process.
Soon enough, it’ll be time to get to work, time to put his own stamp on a program that for four decades relied on the instincts and direction of Chris Hill, who retired last Friday after 31 years as Utah’s precedent-setting AD.