Whittingham = Utah’s WEAK link

[Utah#1]

Having watched a little of the game last night my analysis is Utah has the talented players on their team good enough to have won most of the games they’ve lost this season. Utah should have won that game last night! They should have stuck with what got them the lead and kept building off of that.

Whitt then lost his fifth consecutive game by playing NOT to lose. I feel very bad for most of the players who are still in it despite the consecutive losses. These losses are ALL on Whittingham! If he continues to coach next year, it will be more of the same thing no matter who the OC is. I hope he retires end of the season as it is very apparent to me he is the #1 problem in the program! Go UTES!

[Ute Dub]

At the 50 yard line in the 4th quarter with Utah O-Line in very narrow splits and with the box stacked by BYU, we run the ball. Hindsight is 20 20 but I’m saying throw a 30 yard pass out of play action. An INt at that point is not that far off from a punt.

[Utesbyfive]

No kidding. Why is an arm punt a bad thing in that situation?

[2008 National Champ]

wait a minute. haven’t you spent the last two weeks on every thread telling us that Utah HAS to run the ball?

[Ute Dub]

I said they’re not good at running the ball because they don’t have a bruising running back. Please show me where I said otherwise.

[2008 National Champ]

Ute Dub replied to the topic We strayed from the K-Whitt formula in 2017 and went 7-6 in the forum Football 14 days ago

Why aren’t we running the ball this year?

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Ute Dub replied to the topic Houston ran the ball 50 times and had 13 pass plays. in the forum Football 15 days ago

Yeah. So why didn’t we run the ball more? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Ute Dub]

God you’re dense.

We aren’t running the ball because we don’t have a good running back to punish the other team.

That’s why we’re not running the ball well.

In previous years when we had an NFL running back, we ran the ball well.

[2008 National Champ]

so we shouldn’t run the ball? except when we should run the ball? or should we have done the opposite of whatever didn’t work on the last play?

[Ute Dub]

We should have paid JJ. If he’s on the team, we run the ball more. Get it?

[2008 National Champ]

I get it. And I’m just having fun with you. But if we really want to dig into it, what’s the fix? Not an alternate reality fix, or get someone out of the portal fix for next season. Right here, right now, how does Utah get to a point where the run game is the weapon we are all used to with the pieces they have available to them?

We can all look up the stats, they aren’t good. Yet Bernard is on pace for a 1k season which all of us would have taken in August. Yes Bernard is hit/miss with one chunk run followed by a couple of stuffs which makes his ypc look better. And yes, there hasn’t been an RB2 option this year. So what’s the answer because I don’t know it?

[Tony (admin)]

We had very good success on the, what, ONE time we did play action last night?

[2008 National Champ]

You aren’t thinking like a Utah offensive coach. As soon as something works, you have to save it until the next game. Can’t take the chance of it working again because if it keeps working, the other team might try to stop it. Better off trying something completely different that hasn’t worked yet

[EMUte#2]

You couldn’t have said it any better. Whitt needs to retire or adapt which he won’t.

[RoboUte]

I’m going to pen a modern day adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” where Whittingham is Scrooge and Tiny Tim is the Utah football program. The Ghost of Ron Mcbride appears to him on the eve of him starting the wrong quarterback (so basically anytime).

He will look into the past and see when we could kick field goals or have a positive average punt return. Or complete double digits of passes (the bar is so f**king low).

He will look into the present and see himself destroying the careers of every offensive skill position player stupid enough to come to Utah.

He will look to the future and see the program fighting over UNLV’s rejects who hope to be influencers someday and local walk ons who think “swig” is a restaurant. Meanwhile Morgan Scalley is shoveling a pittance of NIL money onto a dwindling fire in our cold empty stadium while a rerun of 2008 highlights plays through a projector. As Kyle frantically exits the building he sees Kuithe on a street corner holding out a cup, his breath thick and paper-white in the chill air. In it, a small amount of stem cells lay jiggling.

He visits his statue outside of the stadium. It depicts him sitting at a folding table with a microphone in front of him. His expression is solemn. Around the back of the statue his chair is labelled, “a six point lead”. The plaque below the statue reads: “Here lies Kyle Whittingham’s legacy, his excellence, a gametime decision.”

[The Miami Ute]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Kyle Whittingham, Coach of Coaches:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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