Hope this game was a spark to get our program back on track

I’m proud of our team. We were all worried about a blowout, right? We showed some real fight in this game. I think we learned that A) Utah is better than its record and B) BYU isn’t as good as its record. There’s always going to be critiques. Were we too conservative in the second half? Should we have used our timeouts at the end of the game? Etc. But at the end of the day, the team we saw last night is a team I can get behind and root for. Just wish we would’ve had this team all year long.

Being at this game, it felt a lot more like the Utah football that we’ve watched for the past twenty years (as opposed to whatever we’ve been watching for the four games before BYU). You could probably say that’s the best defense we’ve played all year and our offense looked much improved, even if they stalled out in the second half (if only they could’ve gotten another first down or two in the second half). I was happy w/ Brandon Rose. He showed some attitude and I liked it. The defense played lights out for 90% of the game (they still should’ve stopped BYU on that last drive). RES was a lot more red than I expected it to be. All the other home games this year (except SUU I guess), our crowd felt a little off to me…but our fans brought it last night and that made me happy. I loved seeing the emotion from Whitt after the game. I don’t know, I hope we can keep that energy and passion throughout the rest of this season. We’re not as bad as our record says. If the team that played last night shows up for the last three games, I think we’re capable of winning two of the last three games (even if it’s unlikely). I can still hope we make it to a bowl game. We’ll probably finish w/ a losing record, but if we can keep that fire, I think we’ll be okay next year and beyond.