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Yep in this day and age, teams can bounce back almost immediately with the transfer portal. If coaches can get the team to gel, success can be almost immediate.

But the schemes have to be simple. Personalities have to mesh, and NIL be solid.

We only needed an adequate offense last year to hit 9 or 10 wins. Jason is a very good and a great QB coach. I’m pumped. Go Utes!

My biggest hope is that Beck will be able to do whatever is required to move the ball and score points with the personnel available to him. Hopefully he can also help QBs develop. We will see.

I’m hoping if Utah lands him, his trajectory will be similar to that of Huntley. I mean he’s pretty explosive on the ground and just seems to make plays through the air. Yah he throws picks but he can flat out score points. Also he looked really good vs P4 comp.

I totally agree.

I’m ok with it. I don’t think it really matters too much if Whitt is coming back.

I think it will be just fine. Nothing will change. Beck won’t be amazing but won’t be awful. He will be a Whitt OC. And if we lose because we go up 21-10 at halftime and Whitt handcuffs the OC then Whitt will throw Beck under the bus and fire him…[Read more]

If we are looking at stats, New Mexico and us both played Utah state, and New Mexico had slightly better stats on offense. Just saying. And it was before our melt down so team morale was still good

Fair point. But if you’re in the “we lost Arbuckle, wah” crowd then I don’t think you should be in the New Mexico OC sucks crowd when New Mexico beat Wazzu and are very similar in offensive production.

I do not think anyone is disputing that New Mexico played weaker competition than P4 conferences. But all four of the OCs that were being considered (Washington State, Texas State, UNLV, and New Mexico) are all at that same lower level (New Mexico was essentially in the same conference as Washington State and UNLV). So the critique would apply…[Read more]

And yet most on here were begging for a Texas St OC and UNLV OC.

Like many have said, if you took BYU and Bronco off Beck’s resume, we’d be happy.

Jason Beck needs to bring in a new RB coach. Unfortunately, our RB room has gotten worse and worse every year under Ganther.

I never thought in my lifetime we would be analyzing New Mexico football statistics to feel better about a Utah hire.

Fifita then Dampier at QB but both if possible. Nate at slot only no matter who they bring in or keep at QB.

No one will know because Whitt will not tell anyone.

Fifita looked really good in 2023 against everyone he played. And since Arizona got the worst of the Saban retiring coaching carousel, I’d be willing to look past his 2024 numbers and see what he can do. Even with his 2024, Fifita has a better resume than Huard, Wilson or Rose and I would take him over Dampier. The question will be how many…[Read more]

That’s why I’m saying no added value. Beck isn’t going to run a true run-spread with all those TE’s on the roster so the playbook will be similar to what we’ve seen the last 6 years. We can only hope the order of the playcalls is more effective than lately.

I still hope that Whitt retires (doubtful). If he does – I think Beck will open things up. He will build the offense around the skillset of he QB as he should.

Agree with most of that but I question whether Bronco will be a lifer. Put up a couple of good seasons and when the P2 start throwing money at you it’s tough to not take the Gary Anderson to Wisconsin route. Anderson could have been king of Logan for as long as he wanted and potentially a consistent rival to Boise and occasional thorn in Whitt’s side.

NIL disagreement, apparently He was not paid all of what He was promised. If a program promises something, than it should follow through with it. Not blaming Sluka for this one.

I understand Dampier did it in the MWC, but Johnson hasn’t done it.

I’d take Dampier over Johnson personally, but I understand your take.