Anfernee

Human psychology is an interesting thing. When the highest-paid player on the team and the “face of the franchise” is a guy whose best days are behind him, you’re going to have problems. The fact is that money, as we all know, plays a huge role in this equation. Rising hasn’t done anything for years. To a young, financially insecure adult,…[Read more]

It’s a risky move but, if I was in charge, I would go in a completely different direction as far as a head coach is concerned. Most importantly, if the team craters the next couple of seasons, what do you think the fan excitement is going to be have a HC who was part and parcel of such a disaster? It would be madness to ascend to the HC job…[Read more]

I understand…but I doubt that Cignetti, a guy frpm Pittsburgh who’s never coached west of the Mississippi River, even considers the Utah job. Plus, he’s only a couple of years younger than Whitt and close to retirement age himself.

I went to the Las Vegas Bowl and that was the first time that I started hearing the natives getting restless. The offensive display in that game was just that, offensive. It’s one thing to be bad but it’s quite another to be bad AND boring. You combine the two and you start getting apathy and disinterest since, at the end of the day, all sports…[Read more]

That’s what usually happens when you have a QB that moves like he’s carrying a piano on his back.

I like Cignetti, but don’t you think that going from Indiana (and the B1G) to Utah and the Big XII would be a step down or at least a lateral move? I know that Indiana has never been a football school but even with that, they seem to get recruits (i.e. Penix) that Utah wouldn’t have a chance to get.

Funny you should mention that, because I was thinking the same exact thing last night. There are a number of G5 teams that would absolutely feast on this version of Utah football. Boise State and Memphis are other teams that would make Utah look bad at the present.

For me, the biggest negative is that you had two weeks to prepare to face a mediocre ASU team and thought that you could win by having a U sticker on your helmet. I mean, WTF did they focus on those two weeks? ASU is Skatteboo and not much else and they were still able to roll the Utes. As I said last night after the game, Rising can’t play…[Read more]

I’ve had basketball season tickets close to the floor for a few seasons and see Harlan all of the time at games schmoozing and working the “whales”. So, you might be right Eagle in that he’s a smooth talker and can work the financial/donation side of the athletic department. However, for me, he definitely failed his first task, which was to get…[Read more]

This is not a troll question, but do you know Whitt personally and associate with him? There’s got to be some people here that really know what’s going on in his mind. If I’m 65, in a high-stress/high-pressure job and I’ve already made more money than I’ll even be able to spend in my lifetime, I don’t spend more than a minute after the season is…[Read more]

If Utah doesn’t win the Big XII title, then it has little to no chance of getting a bid to the CFPs. There are too many other teams with bigger and better brands and in stronger conferences that will be selected before them.

Well Eagle, Scalley is 11 years older than Dillingham…if he hadn’t stayed in Utah, he would have been a HC somewhere already.

I don’t trust Harlan to have that conversation with Whitt or to make a correct decision. In fact. if Scalley is not the next HC, I don’t trust Harlan to be the deciding factor as to who the next HC would be.

Social security will be chump change compared to the money that he’s already socked away.

Absolutely nothing to flame.

It’s nothing that quite a few people here haven’t been saying for a while. The difference is that now, people that are die-hard Whitt loyalists are saying it.

This team has a lot of problems and, to me, it almost feels as if the staff/team is living off the period from 2018-2022.

Will the team suck once Whitt…[Read more]

You forgot to take one thing into consideration…every team left in our schedule has a functioning QB room. Unless Utah makes some progress in that direction, victories are going to be hard to come by. Hope is not a method.

Man,if this is true Whitt has lost his marbles. Since when does a player decide whether he plays or not? The product, no matter how valiant the effort, was totally unsatisfactory.

If you saw the game, he’s the bald Armenian dude with the glasses that was sitting with Cam in the sidelines. He’s Utah’s Senior Offensive Analyst/Quarterbacks coach and used to be the OC a5 Northwestern.

He’ll be 65 in November. He isn’t a young man any more. If I were him I’d retire but maybe he wants to stick around to prove his detractors wrong. That being said, it sure would be a damned shame if he overstayed and that ended tarnishing his legacy. He’s on contract for three more seasons after this one so it’s definitely something to think about.

Eagle, you’re a poet and don’t even know it…