Tuttle hangs it up

[Tony (admin)]

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— Jack Tuttle (@jacktuttle14) October 29, 2024

[Utesbyfive]

Five concussions is a lot.

[Hellhound152]

A career backup, who Utah coaches identified as “Chris Olave’s” high school QB a little too late, managed to hover over the Utah program like a dark cloud while two of the most successful signal callers in program history were winning championships and setting school records. To think, fans still say “the coaches blew it with Tuttle” when the coaches were saying “if we put him in a real game he would p**s himself.”

[2008 National Champ]

Tuttle may have actually been the canary in the coal mine. He was on the leadership council and the rumor, never confirmed that I know of, was that he left because he saw players being held to different standards as far as behavior. He left the team so early in the season and I just never bought the excuse that it was because he wanted to play at his dad’s alma mater or because he couldn’t beat out Jason Shelley.

[The Miami Ute]

Tuttle was on the leadership council? How was that possible? He left a couple of months into his freshman season. I thought those spots were reserved for veteran players. I don’t have any spite for Tuttle. He left because he didn’t fit in at Utah and I can’t blame him for that. His biggest claim to fame is the ability to get a couple of advanced degrees from top schools while hardly ever seeing the field.

[Ute Dub]

I think he meant Seminary Council. Brother Tuttle.

[Hellhound152]

He was on the summer leadership counsel. I can’t remember if he was the first early enrollee that Utah had, certainly the most high profile at the time. Since that time an early enrollee Freshman has always been a representative on the leadership council (which is different than captains and includes reps from each class, the scout team, etc.) As far as the “Canary in the Coal Mine” K. Gunther was unabashed about the hierarchy that existed internally with how different players were treated going back to the Urban era. But honestly, that is a reality in any human organization is it not?

[RustyShackleford]

This has got me to thinking, I’ve seen a lot of people on here talking about how bad Whitt handles QBs and such. However how many QBs have transferred out and been successful at other programs? Is it possible that just a high percentage of high school QBs will never be successful CFB QBs? Maybe Utah is worse at identifying QB talent? What is a similar team to Utah that we could compare QB rooms over the years and their hit rate on those QBs?

[jshame17]

Well, for the most part, it appears opposing teams are able to find functioning QBs that can get more than 12 points a game.

That’s the success rate that we need here on the Hill.

[RustyShackleford]

They had one, and he only played 2 full games. There are very few teams in CFB that could go to their back up and not skip a beat. You could say Utah should have been more prepared for Cam to get hurt and I agree but to act like everyone has 2 starting level QBs on roster is dumb

[jshame17]

I didn’t say starting. I said functional. Most teams don’t lose their entire offensive identity when their QB goes down.

Yes, there’s a drop off but I’ve never seen one that completely collapsed like Utah has this year.

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