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“You’re traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of game time decisions but of mind games. A journey into a not so wondrous land whose boundaries are that of zero offensive imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Whittlight Zone!”

I’m not sure anyone is arguing that he doesn’t play his heart out, but that is half the equation. His pocket awareness is not great and the delayed decision making isn’t helping. It seemed like such a step up to Brandon Rose. I would agree that it is a coaching problem if we got similar results from Brandon Rose, but we didn’t. I recognize the sam…[Read more]

I’ve said this all year long. If Whitt would have given Rising’s money to Jackson, let Rising walk, and gone with Rose/Wilson but had Jackson/Bernard as his RB’s, we’d be undefeated right now.

Whitt does everything he can to restrict QB’s. Why he let a RB like Jackson walk to pay Rising…blows my mind.

The problem with Whitt is he knows he…[Read more]

This. Whitt has had…9? 10? 11? OC’s in 20 years. They have the same issues.

The issue isn’t the OC. It’s Whitt. As long as he is here, it really doesn’t matter who the OC is. We will run the same offense we always run.

That being said, we need an OC who is a run first guy and doesn’t really need the forward pass.

So my vote is Boise St’s OC.

If Whitt stays my only hope is maybe Koetter from Boise St, he’s old school and his offense seems to fit Whitt’s style featuring a power RB. The other 2 in my wish list above is assuming Whitt retires and Scalley opens up the search. I don’t have any illusions about how this will go though, just wishful/hopeful thinking.

you saw his offense in the 2023 bowl game. If you weren’t impressed by the 14 points Northwestern put up against 1/2 of the Utah starting D, or the 22.1 ppg (106th in country), you aren’t going to be impressed with what he does at Utah.

That 22.1 was the high water mark for him at Northwestern. But it was an improvement from the 13.8 in 2022.

What coordinator worth his salt is going to come to Utah on a standard 3 year deal with a coach who could retire at any time? And why would Utah commit 1.5MM per w/ buyout for 3 years given the same reason?

Ludwig got a pretty sweet friends and family deal that should not be available to the next guy. I agree with people up above who said the…[Read more]

Read this and weep or laugh. Highest-paid college football coordinators at the start of the season:

$2.1 million: Mike Denbrock, Notre Dame

$1.85 million: Andy Ludwig, Utah

$1.75 million: Garrett Riley, Clemson

$1.65 million: Charlie Weis, Jr., Ole Miss

$1.6 million: Andy Kotelnicki, Penn State

$1.5 million: Kirby Moore, Missouri; Bobby…[Read more]

Wilson is a true freshman. It’s not reasonable to expect that we’d be in the Big 12 race with a true freshman QB. It’s too soon to cut him.

Good point, my only hope is that Louisville doesnt want to spend 1.5 million for their OC. Basing that on the comment someone previously made stating that Utah spent 1.5 million on Ludwig which was much higher than the national average. Not holding my breath though, haven’t even checked to see how much he currently gets paid by Louisville.

In a locker room if you are coming off as arrogant or entitled, it’s because that’s who you are. You can’t hide who are from your teammates. Winning will make others ignore it but as soon as that goes away, you don’t have any credibility. It’s not a freshman thing, it’s an asshole thing.

Film room: I found it interesting that the writer highlighted Tennessee running RPO in the red zone and the QB made the wrong read twice in a row so Bakajian called a reverse that should have been blown up as a great play sequence.

Oh, and am I the only one who thought the Spencer Fano wrinkle on the 2 point play was really nice but could have…[Read more]

You can have any color you want as long as it is black- that is Whitt. You can run the offense any way you like as long as you run it 70-75% of the time.

EXACTLY! Will see more of the same next as well if Whitt is still head coach

Realistically, I think we (barring Wilson transferring out) go into next season with a (declared at least) 4 way battle for starting QB

• Transfer QB as the likely favorite
• Brandon Rose as the guy who has looked good in short chances, but mostly hurt
• Isaac Wilson as the touted recruit that struggled but is hopefully better with some seaso…[Read more]

What credible OC in their right mind takes the OC job if KW decides to stay for his “day to day” retirement plan? Defense is a great selling point, everything else is nothing but red flags. College coaching is a tight group. Only takes a couple quick phone calls to find out the OC job at Utah under KW is a no win situation. Nothings going to cha…[Read more]

Take a look at this:

Utes top priority revolves around building up Isaac Wilson

and this:

Mike Bajakian Focused On Getting Utah, Isaac Wilson Back To Winning Ways

and this:FILM ROOM: What does a Mike Bajakian offense look like?

So status quo? 😫