This was Utahs year for the taking. No way you can fire Kyle but I sure hope he will change his mindset when it comes to offense. You can’t play not to lose, even a bad team in the PAC12 has enough talent if you give them life they will beat you.
Utah made Cal and OR’s defenses look good. Something only Utah could do. Offensively they never play up to the talent they have.
The past few years I’ve defended Kyle and his coaching philosophy because the team was heading in the right direction and imporving the past few years after the transition to the PAC. But I don’t see how the team will ever make the next step and win a big game in November with him.
I think it’s time to move on, which is weird to say being how much he’s won.
Kyle doesn’t have to go, but his OC does and he has to actually hold a real coaching search. In fact it should be Chris Hill that does the hiring because Whitt has shown he can’t handle hiring an OC. Joe Williams only had 23 carries today…3 carries during a long stretch where we had five 3 & outs in row. At one point we had 2nd & 2 only to run 2 passing plays for 0 yards and had to punt. Guess what happened before that? TWO JOE WILLIAMS RUNS FOR ROUGHLY 18 YARDS COMBINED.
For me it isn’t one or two bad plays but more of an attitude. There will be critical plays in every game. I understand that you take what they are giving, but why not do it by surprise? The pass plays you referenced were low percentage plays because they were expected. They were easily defended along with a short run play. It seems to me that Utah’s O is just too damn predictable.