Scalley to be ‘very involved’ in process to hire future OC

I wish I knew how to read this, but my knee jerk reaction is that after reading it, Whitt is not planning on retiring at the end of this season. (Which is too bad IMO.)

But, maybe not. And at minimum because the incoming OC would know that Scalley is the soon to be boss, maybe some OC’s would consider Utah that wouldn’t otherwise?

Whitt says all the right things where he is acutely tuned in to what is needed in the modern landscape , and then the results look the same every year with a few outliers.

He almost won me back in this interview, especially saying that maybe he should open practices back up so we can see what the team is actually doing and working on..

DO IT!! We need real sports reporting again!!

If there’s going to be a major overhaul, it makes much more sense to let Scalley take over at the end of the season with Whitt in a consultant role. Utah did this for Scalley after John Pease left for and for Brian Johnson after Norm Chow left.

Anfernee thanks for the breakdown. The offensive scheme comment stuck out with me. He said it takes 2-3 years to fully understand the offense. He has made comments in the past about Rose not fully grasping the offense. So Wilson must be doing a crash coarse to figure out the offense.

Again that’s old school development where it takes 2-3 years to be ready to play. With the portal you don’t have time to develop talent. You find guys that are ready to play now. Like Whitt said plug and play. Schemes should be simplified so they’re ready sooner.Sounds like Ludwig was running a complicated pro style offense. Great if you have a 6 year senior.

I hope Whitt leaves at the end of this season to start the rebuilding with Scalley! At this point with the dsyfunction in the program that he’s a liability for the team and if he still decides to coach he will run the program even further into the ground.

I’m sure lots of players ready to jump ship once the season ends. Especially on the offensive side of the ball. I wouldn’t be surprised if on the defensive side if Cam Calhoune left for money! He’s a talent.

You hear all the time about college QBs going pro it takes time to learn the pro system and how it works. Isaac’s brother Zach commented on Ludwig’s pro style offense.College style offense is easier to learn or just simplified?

Want to hear the GOAT, (or at least top 2 qb of all time) talk about this?
Basically with the portal, college football programs don’t exist anymore. They are teams.
They don’t have time to have complicated schemes and identities, because the player turnover is too frequent.
A program had an identity, and was able to develop players to match that over time.
Tom says he began at 7th string at Michigan and slowly learned and developed. Same thing in the pros, he didn’t start right away, was able to learn and grow under Belicheck.
The quality at the NFL level is dropping because the quality at the college level is dropping.
I saw this on instagram today and thought it tied in to what Whit is saying here.

Makes me feel bad for a guy like Damien Alford. I watched him at Syracuse and he’s talented and could’ve helped us. Apparently, the offense was too much for him to grasp in his one year here. His Senior year!

This is so bizarre to me, if our offense is just so darn complicated, why do we not see essentially any evidence for that on the field? Was it so complicated that literally no player has been able to master it? When I hear Whitt say things like this then look at our offensive production under Ludwig, and our record, it really just doesn’t add up. Where’s the disconnect?

If I were the UTES I would move heaven and hell to get Alex Atkins to come over of the UTES as OC. He has had a down year with Florida State which has resulted in him being let go. But in all reality he is a victim of the inept Mike Norvell trying to save his hide as head coach. Alex Atkins is an ace recruiter and any solid players Florida State has had recently has come from him. All the recruits that have left were there because of Alex. He would bust the Florida pipeline wide open and would build on our run heavy approach, as he is the OL coach as well.

I know Scalley is close friends with Kellen Moore and speaks to him weekly. That’s who I would want but likely a pipe dream considering the Eagles are playing well.