Utah's offense we all see the problem but how can it be fixed?

Regarding offense, play calling, and talent: I’m not sure what came first, the awful offensive strategies or the lack of talented players in positions needed to execute a decent offensive strategy.

I swear most of the play calls toward the end of the season seemed to be geared away from making the big mistake, a.k.a. the USC pick sixes.

I still contend that if we are a power team who relies on a great defense and a power offense, we should be running a pro set instead of whatever the f we are running now. Go Stanford style.

I’ve said all along that Wilson had a low ceiling and he reached it. The best they could do was to coach him out of turnovers. Wilson is terribly inaccurate. He is not a QB who can throw receivers open. Hell that one 1st down catch by Tyrone was simply amazing. Full layout stretch in the air to haul that terribly overthrown 10 yard pass, yet no defender within 5 yards. Wilson is not a QB who makes his receivers better.

Watched one play where Wilson held the ball way too long and took a sack. A quickly thrown ball had Scott open for 10 years and a first down, but Wilson doesn’t have the confidence to throw that because he doesn’t have the accuracy and fears the INT.

Look we’re done with Wilson. They did all they could with his abilities. His ceiling was low and they had to coach within that. IMO they did a damn fine job, but it made for frustrating watching.

What do they need to do? Hope that Sitake takes Arod and then they go after this Cramsey guy at Montana St who’s reportedly a Spread QB guru. He just interview last week for the HC position at Montana St, so could be available. His Transferring (out) QB Dakota Prukop had offers from Oregon, Alabama and Michigan and Cramsey developed him at a FCS school. Get Cramsey now!

I agree we need a QB coach, but I also think we need a new receivers coach. We’re always told the “throw” game struggles because the receivers aren’t getting open, find a coach who can teach them how to get open.

First thing I would do is analyze what has NOT been working. Then I would make an effort to change that. I know, I know. It makes too much sense.

There’s no secret to scouting our offense. Doesn’t have to be complicated at all. If our coaching staff can’t look at any film of the season except the Oregon game and know what we need work on, they’re idiots.

In Viet Nam the US brought in a team to examine how to lower the number of lost helicopters. They started counting the hits on returning aircraft and began armoring the places without hits on the returning aircraft. It worked because they had isolated the problem and devised a way to correct it. Utah could perhaps use the same technique: bring in an independent specialist (ie. coach or team) to analyse what needs to change and make the offence more effective. Utilize people such as UM and known offensive gurus not their own people.

I also agree that recruiting to a offensive scheme (players and coaches) would be a big advantage and optimizing the offence to fit the players within said scheme, this is also very important.

Great bring in an outside advisor who’ll tell you that you’ve recruited poorly at the QB and WR position. You’ve played with a G5 level QB tha past 4 years who can’t read pss defenses. We all know this, so why waste the time on the outside advisor. Now if that advisor could recruit two 4 star or higher QBs and three 4 star or higher WRs every year, he’d be worth the money.

What gives me solace is taking a step back and look at the monumental task of entering the Pac-12. What we are seeing is a building process with limited resources. Remember the revenue progression? It was something like 0-50-75 then full percentage? Imagine how hard it was to recruit during year one and two? I don’t know what the budget was, or what it is now, but I’m betting it’s something like comparing vacations of a family that brings in 45k a year to a family that brings in a million a year.

I’m impressed with what our school has done in 5 years. Football and basketball are knocking on the doors of Pac 12 championships while being totally handcuffed financially compared to our conference mates.

So back to fixing the offense. I think it’s being fixed now. Whitt knew his best chance to compete was to build the defense and special teams. If we had Phil Knight type resources it wouldn’t take as long as it’s taking. We have a nice Florida pipeline that has been and is being laid. It costs a hell of a lot of money to recruit Florida compared to California. Airfare alone is three times as much. That’s sending coaches there plus bring kids in on visits. This is just one tiny piece of the pie.

We entered the conference when every other program decided to “step it up” in terms of football. Every program is dumping millions into facilities and coaches. Before Harbaugh, Stanford was perfectly content to suck hind tit in football. Look how much that has changed, and it’s not just Stanford, it’s everyone in the Pac-12. Every program, every AD, every president and chancellor has caught the vision to dump resources into bringing home a Pac-12 championship.

That is what we are up against and it could not be built all at once. Whitt has built a very good offensive line. It might play out to be the best in the conference next year. Now look at the QBs coming in. I’m excited about the offense next year.

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