So, does an ugly win help the team?

[ProudUte]

Does it make the team look harder at what they need to improve?  Does it help them realize that they aren’t invincible?  Will it help us work harder in practice this week?

I do not like the way we played on defense or ST today.  But, maybe it will serve as a wake-up call.

 

[Vuksi]

We’re not playing for style points to impress the national media. A win is a win

[UteFanatic]

It’s better to learn from an ugly win than a bad loss.

[PNW Ute]

Seems like they’ve had that wake up call before and snoozed through it. If they didn’t make a concerted effort to clean up punts after OSU, then why would they now?

[UteFanatic]

I mean, they did clean that up in the next game with Cam taking on punting duties. Not sure why they regressed.

[Central Coast Ute]

S**tty said it was a protection issue. He said they got the punt off in 1.96 iirc and that’s fast enough

[2008 National Champ]

How many more “wake-up” calls do you need to see before finally considering that perhaps this team just isn’t as good as you want it to be? They are capable of very good things, especially when the opponent plays the same way they look on film (USC, UCLA, Stanford). And they struggle against opponents who are willing to vary their schemes on both sides of the ball and have a reasonably mobile QB (parochial school, SDSU, OSU).

It is not a knock on Utah to say that it is a young team that is still learning how to play, especially on defense. The talent is there but the execution in not at a championship level, yet. Utah is benefitting from a mediocre South division, and conference as a whole. With every game I keep adjusting my expectation for 2022 up because it has been a great learning year. But 2021 Utah is not a finished product by any means.

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