The Disappointed Optimist

[Anfernee]

Well that was as disappointing a game as I can remember. Our coaches absolutely stunk up the joint. They need to sit in this awhile during the bye week. There’s lot of emotions and anger in the fanbase right now. Some very understandable. Here’s where I’m choosing to focus: We have 7 regular season games left. I believe Cam will be back October 11th at ASU. Along with Karene and O’Toole. It’s hard for ANY team to go undefeated in conference. Whether it’s the Big Sky or SEC. All of our goals are still right in front of us. I think we learn from this and become the team we all thought was possible in 2024.

[GameForAnyFuss]

^This

Utah is still in the driver’s seat to win the conference. In the preseason I thought we’d be 4-1 going into bye week, and that’s where we are…I just had the loss in the wrong spot.

[Yergensen]

Did you assume we’d be 4-1 with Cam or with a FR QB?

I think if we adjusted our expectations to the latter we would be good with our current position.

The future on the other hand…coaches have to be better, we need a smart Cam Rising back with no more delay, we need Reid back, some luck at RB and a fire in the belly week in/week out.

If not, plates of crow for our loud and proud fanbase.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Did you assume we’d be 4-1 with Cam or with a FR QB?

With Cam.

[EagleMountainUte]

With Cam? Yikes

[BD]

Good post.

We’re still in the driver’s seat. Cam has to not be rusty, which I think he’ll be fine. But somebody has to step ut up behind Bernard. We are THIN there.

[jshame17]

Utah is absolutely not in the driver seat. They are currently 9th in the league.

BYU and ISU are in the driver seat and actually playing like it.

[Anfernee]

Driver seat. Passenger seat. Backseat. Everything we want to obtain is still there. Get healthy. Just win.

[ReconUte]

You would have to be the biggest Ute homer in the world to believe Utah is in the drivers seat or like you said “just win” and everythings okay. The problems this team has is more than just win. This coaching staff just got burned by an average to below average Pac12 team again for 2 years in a row! Coached by two different coaches too!
This team has only one reliable RB. How is that possible? We used to be running back U!
Bernard is a stud but he is not durable enough to play a whole season alone. Mitchell can’t pass protect and trips over his own feet. Glover falls down on a first contact.

Cam is soaking it up and laughing and joking on the sideline raking in his 3 mil. I’m tired of the secrecy surrounding his return. I’m tired of seeing that once again this coaching staff doesn’t have a reliable game ready QB behind Cam. I’m tired of hearing how Ludwigs offense is really hard to master because it’s supposedly complicated. What the Hell is complicated? Running it up the middle 3 plays in a row? Always throwing short of the sticks on 3rd downs?

The defense this year isn’t as great as we were told. Barton is a shell of his former self. The DBs are terrible. When’s the last time we had DBs we couldn’t count on? Vaughn is not a shut down corner. The other DBs are constantly out of position. Elijah Davis celebrates on every single play his way even when he does nothing at all.

I just can’t understand how this team wasnt ready and looked like they did last night against a team that cooked us last year?! All week we heard about payback and making a statement. Well we did make a statement last night snd its we’re nowhere close to being ready to compete for a conference championship. On national television as well. Absolutely embarrassing!

[EMUte#2]

This season all comes down to Cams health. With Whitt at the helm, we will only be at best a one and done playoff team. That is our ceiling period. Our offense is not good enough. I thought we finally had the wr’s this year. But no munir mclain and no Damien afford. We cannot lose another game. Cam has not shown us that he can stay healthy. This has been a disappointment. I expected a better offense. I hope I am wrong but 9-3 is our ceiling. Cam needs to step up period. Whitt needs to get out of the offenses way.

[RUUTES]

I’m a disappointed and more moderate optimist now. I think we get a winning record. But thats as far as I’m going in my head for now.

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