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I would respectfully disagree. Arizona knew what was coming because of Ludwig’s tendencies. Matt Patton on Twitter had some excellent breakdown of the play calling tendencies. If Mike Mitchell is in the game it is either a run up the middle or consistently to one side. Same for Bernard. He essentially showed that you can ignore the TEs in those s…[Read more]

I agree yerg with Mitchell coming in on short yardage.The other team knows what’s coming. Seems faking it to Mitchell and using him as decoy might be an option equal to or better than using MB as a decoy.

I still prefer a bigger back in our case maybe a tight end in shotgun. Rising was effective faking the handoff and getting 1 or 2 yrds with h…[Read more]

Even after a bye week we have a top 15 RB in CFB averaging over 6 ypc. When MB is in the backfield defenses don’t know run/pass.

The problem with short yardage situations is Lud brings in Mitchell and runs him between tackles every time. Defenses know what we are going to do given the personnel on the field and they load the line.

Even if we h…[Read more]

If this team doesn’t come out focused and angry on Friday, then we have serious motivational issues. Arizona played angry and with a purpose last week coming off their embarrassment at Kansas State. We need to see this from our guys this weekend. Go Utes!!

#2 is what cost us the AZ game. We saw a lack of set plays for Wilson and a lack of running plays. We expected Wilson to pick apart their secondary using his reads, but he was being blitzed all game long. He clearly wasn’t ready and the receivers weren’t getting open.

If Wilson is the starter, he should be getting all the reps this week and…[Read more]

I’m a little confused on analytics. Can someone explain. So if it’s fourth and 1 on the 10 yard line your chances are better to get the first down and possible touchdown than kick a field goal based on the results of thousands of similar situations. Not taking in to account personnel on either team. Is that correct?

Going by Onlyu observation Cam must have been cleared to play but unable to grip the ball properly and throw it with velocity and accuracy. He doesn’t want to hurt the team and Wilson gives them a better chance to win. Is that considered analytics or just analysis?

Breaking point. Issac has shown he is capable of winning a game like this. ASU is fine. Not great. Better than last year. Yes. But not special. If we can contain there running back we should be fine.
After that TCU at home I like our chances then Houston then BYE.

The last 4 games are brutal.

I appreciate all the replies and thoughts. I don’t pretend to be an expert, but just form opinions based on what I have seen in games so far. Hope Whit and company can identify the problem areas and build toward correcting them. Go Utes!!

Beating BYU would make it. Losing to ASU would break it. I guess we’ll find out if the team can respond to a bad loss at home.

I can’t even begin to process this.

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciation.

They need analytics to analyze the analytics.

He was at the game and watched Cam warm up with the ones, so yeah, what does he know except what he literally watched.

Appreciate you, brother. We are all going through this mental gymnastics battle together. Go Utes!

It already happens in every sports video game where the computer plays one of the teams.

Edited for realism:

Whit: “OK. Who’s flipping the coin?” “Is that you, Cam”?
Cam: “Right, Coach. Got it right here.”
Whit: “OK, what’d you got?”

The coin lands on his palm, shattering his metacarpals.

Cam: “Heads, Coach”. Heads was FG.”
Whit: “Do it again. We’ll go 2 out of 3!”
Cam: “You got it, Coach. Double Tails.”
Whit: “Signal that in, Lu…[Read more]