Everyone Needs To Calm Down

Love your passion…and understand where you’re coming from…

I like your optimism and agree with you. White has own bad season and we want to bring out the pitchforks. I don’t run k he wants to retire after losing to BYU and having a losing season. He has earned the right to retire when he wants. I do hope it is in the next deal or two and on a high.

I’m going to give an opinion regarding number 10 and it isn’t going to be popular. But, take off your red goggles for a second and hear me out.

The flag against Vaughn WAS holding. There was an angle posted here earlier that showed him tug the jersey. Was it a blatant hold and was it consistent with how the refs were calling the rest of the game? Absolutely not. Joel Klatt said it best, it was a 50/50 call. Unfortunately, they called it. However, here is a list of reasons that we lost the game that had nothing to do with the refs:

1. BYU fumbled the ball twice and we couldn’t come up with either of them. If we jump on either of those, it’s likely a different outcome.
2. We had two back to back possessions in the second half that started at midfield. We weren’t able to move the ball 25-30 yards to even get into FG range. One more FG and it’s likely a different outcome. We didn’t score a SINGLE point in the second half.
3. Even after the holding penalty on Vaughn, BYU had to move the ball about 50 yards just to get a chance at a FG. The defense allowed it.
4. Calhoun had an Interception literally hit him in the hands. He dropped it. It would have ended the game.
5. This was actually a crucial one that I haven’t seen discussed. Late in the 4th, we had the ball and there was an injury timeout for a BYU defensive player. After the timeout, the game clock began running and the play clock reset to 40 seconds. Rather than huddle up and run some clock, the offense lined up and snapped the ball. There was a good 30 seconds that could have been run.

So yes, the flag on Vaughn was stupid and shouldn’t have been called in that situation IMO. But it was far from THE reason we lost.

Solid post.
Yup. KW > Utah football. KW stays as long as he wants and does whatever he wants, win or lose. KW goes 0-12 next year he keeps on coaching. Let’s be honest, Utah football being bad is really not that important to the University as long as fans keep filling seats and boosters donate $.

I disagree with keeping Harding. That position group has been a MASSIVE disappointment this year. When Whit said it should be our strength, that position group has found a way to p**s down its own leg time and time again. There is talent, so my assumption is the coaching.

Love this post. Well done. I get it’s been a rough couple of years but geez, we’re a healthy QB away from having two amazing seasons. My concern, as has been expressed by others, lies simply in not understanding why there is such a grand canyon drop off between QB1 and QB2. I get that QB1 gets most of the reps, but man – Cam goes down and we become at best a .500 team. I’m not OK with that and would like to see better results from QB2. The transfer portal has made this more difficult because if you’re a really good QB2 you can likely go start somewhere else and get some NIL money as well. Utah will be fine. Very few programs, short of the top 5 programs in the nation, can sustain success for too long. There are always ebbs and flows. Unfortunately, at the moment, BYU is flowing and Utah is ebbing and that’s a tough pill to swallow. But no one should be that surprised. Injuries happen and the universe throws weird stuff at different teams every year. I just hope we can right the ship before it sinks.