I think that Arizona is a better opponent than most hoped. And college football will always surprise you, I think they win that game 8 times out of 10, they were the better team. But we had every reason to win and botched it. This is just the latest in an increasingly common trend of unpreparedness and collapse. Whether it be headscratching gameplans, leaving points on the board, predictability, mentally fragile team atmospheres, the absence of the ability to kick field goals, or a disastrous to non-existent QB room stumbling and falling on its face, the buck stops at the top. And at this points it’s a lot of bucks.
It’s games like this when I can’t help but ponder when people ask me “what will happen to Utah when Whittingham leaves?” At this point, I’m not entirely sure we won’t improve. I think our man’s best days are in the rear view mirror and his shortcomings are beginning to eclipse his upside.
We should have a decent season, even still. But I have no grace for the atrocity of a season of ’23 and the pathetic boneheadedness of ’24 thus far. This Cam Rising business is a circus and it’s gone on far far too long and we have no path out of the nightmare because of all of our coach’s shortcomings, fielding, developing, and recruiting quarterbacks is the most profound and there is no evidence to the contrary. We need to luck into recruiting a good QB and cross our fingers that he never gets injured. Because there is no next man up. There never has been. There never will be. Utah under Whittingham is, for his entire tenure, one injury away from complete collapse if we even have somebody good starting in the first place. Remember, it’s more likely to be a battle between travis wilson and kendal thompson than there even being a good option in the first place. This is a cardinal sin of football, there is no greater weakness for a team to have. There’s no sugarcoating that. I used to be able to say we had great special teams and that we were a bowl menace. But those days are coming up on 10 years in the past. I’m pretty tired of the same mistakes.
Utah @ 
Baylor 
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