Mark Harlan is so impressed with Utah's football fans that he wants to meet them in the MUSS.
He's also driven to expand Rice-Eccles Stadium, promising to present a design plan sometime during this season.
At the 90-day mark of his tenure as the Utes' athletic director, Harlan cited the football environment as making the strongest impact on his view of the job. “I had such high expectations for these football games, but everything had far exceeded anything that I could have hoped for,” Harlan said in an interview Thursday. “The energy at the games, it’s just been overwhelming.