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Ah crap, I wouldn’t mind Marion, but now Caliman said it, so it’s not. Freakin’ jinx

Oklahoma feels like the next Nebraska. Great history, top dog of their small, shitty conference, leave for a new conference and can’t get back to the top.

If you’re a recruit, and Oklahoma and Nebraska offer you, why would you go there over Ohio State, Michigan, Penn St, Alabama, Texas, A&M, Auburn, LSU, etc?

The biggest problem with Whittingham in regards to offense was that he did not believe the offensive woes were his fault. How do we know he didn’t believe the mistakes were his fault you say? Because he has fired 8 offensive coordinators in his tenure, but the offense basically looked the same no matter which OC came in. This indicates that…[Read more]

I can understand why an up and coming OC in their right mind is not going to risk their career coaching under KW while he’s day to day on retirement plan trying to go out with a feel good season. KW’s track record with OCs spanning 20 years has to be a factor. The only OC basically keeping KW with a winning P12 record walked out the door mid…[Read more]

The timing on the OC announcement is usually an indicator. Arbuckle’s team didn’t have anything to play for this week and he wasn’t go to stay for a bowl. Same with Kittley (Texas Tech) going to FAU or Malzahn to FSU.

That would indicate one of two things: 1) Utah’s OC hire is at a G5 playing a CCG this weekend (Vegas, Boise, Tulane, Army,…[Read more]

I see a lot of people commenting about money, opportunity, etc…lest we forget, in Andy Ludwig Utah had the second highest paid offensive coordinator in the nation, making what some OCs in the SEC and B1G make look like chump change. Money is not the issue here. Guaranteed that if Utah wanted Arbuckle and Arbuckle wanted Utah, that deal would…[Read more]

That’s it in a nutshell. I agree with everything you say there from the personal to the football.

Its Marion people!, it was Marion since back in November.

I think Utah’s current coaching situation could be unappealing for a lot of coordinators. Let’s be honest any idiot is going to come in and “improve” Utah for 2025 and you have to watch for 2026 to see the real sauce. Mainly because the floor is so low on the offense after 2023 and 2024. Whitt hasn’t exactly propelled his coordinators to head coac…[Read more]

Or Utah didn’t want to pay the price. It could have been steep to draw him away. I don’t think it was one just one reason.

The reason why Ficklin committed so quickly, is because he was assured that Marion was on his way, Utah is just keeping it quite.

Yes, the SEC has more money. But, as I did with my own career – (a long time ago) I took less money for a job that I thought would be best for my future.

An OC could be very interested in an opportunity to start something new with a new head coach. It could be very good for his career if he delivers. Also, Utah pays its coordinators very…[Read more]

Yes. And he’ll be an OC for a blue blood program, in the SEC, while also making more money. And his family is in Texas.

I am assuming something will drop around 11 am.

Urgency and Utah’s offense? Of course you’re right. Some urgency would be nice

My assumption with no evidence other than what usually happens…Arbuckle used Utah to leverage Oklahoma for more money.

Agreed

There is zero chance an uptempo OC would want to coach with Whitt.

If Whitt is our HC, it doesn’t matter who we hire as OC. We know what our offense will look like.