Charlie

Realize that if you let one team change a couple of outcomes the other team could as well. What if Utah did not fumble, what if a missed tackle let Utah score. Dropped passes are very visible game changers but many other things like penalties or big drive stops can have the same effect but don’t stand out as much.

It is pretty simple. Deion has a unique style to hype or motivate those around him. Kind of a ‘we are wonderful’ thing. Lanning had previously shown he is buthurt by Deion’s approach. Sadly, Oregon’s team was easily good enough that Lanning could have taken the high road, show nothing but respect and enjoy a lopsided win. Instead, Lanning was…[Read more]

Washington is playing good, they are my pick for the team Utah beats twice this year. (USC last year, Oregon the year before)

We have come a long way as a football program. No longer is a 7 point win against a ranked team acceptable. Game plans under any circumstances that do not include offensive fireworks are unacceptable. A good part of the fan base has developed football acumen beyond even some very successful coaches. Winning with defense is simply not entertaining…[Read more]

It may be best for Whitt to move the decision point each week to Tuesday instead of Thursday. The two days makes little difference to Rising but the two days make a big difference to the team prep. This in unique to the QB position.

Little league / HS rule: Hit only what you see, see what you hit. A mistake to learn from. Use a shoulder or lift your chin up. One thing lost in the chaos of the play.

Good grief, we are 3 and 0, two time defending champs, recruiting better than ever in our history, with so much to look forward to as guys come back. There are 8 ranked teams in our league but everyone wants Utah’s spot or wants to be more like Utah in several aspects. We encounter a massive number of injuries resulting in games being closer than…[Read more]

I see and like what you did there…

Super easy to figure out. Current reality in rankings always beats out past opinions with less information. Previous rankings are for those grasping for straws. That’s why the final rankings trump anything from earlier in the season. I also think wins over quality teams is more meaningful than simple wins. Undefeated reasoning is for SEC teams…[Read more]

I think practice will be complete Thursday. Friday may be walk-thru only but certainty too late to impact practice for the week.

I am a bit surprised so many may not understand Onlyu’s comment about “being cleared and game ready is two different things”. Whitt can’t give us an answer because there are many other factors beyond being cleared that can be changing daily. Cam can be the best QB by a large margin as well as cleared but only equally capable to other QBs at a…[Read more]

Or Whitt is trying to heighten the competition. Then given recent QB turnover history I can understand angst about it all.

The plan to replace Rising has been in action longer than a year as we were expecting him to leave after the ’22 season. This plan is much more developed than the one for the replacement of Brewer when Rising was much of an unknown. Now we have two capable options instead of the single option for a replacement for Brewer.

Until we see Rising for…[Read more]

I expect Rutgers may want to help USC understand what they will experience or Vanderbilt may help Texas and Oklahoma with ideas, but with more experience.

I agree. The problem is college football is controlled by a few media companies that themselves do not work together. Each media company has a very short term self interest that is overwhelming. College football will continue to struggle mightily until there is a single entity on the athletic side that calls the shots for at least an entire…[Read more]

I believe USC and Oregon were dominating the leadership that was not up to the task. USC blocked expansion and other moves that would have made the PAC stronger only to get frustrated by their own decisions and move to a conference dominated by better leadership. USC athletics in particular has been rolling gutter balls again and again since we…[Read more]

I think the PAC / ACC thing could have happened if Colo would not have jumped the gun. I think they did so because they felt if they were not first and the Big 12 had their choice of PAC teams they could have easily been left out. But when Colo did jump, things began to move to fast for anything but life boats to be considered. The root of all of…[Read more]

Since college athletics intends to be fair a team salary cap is good. An athlete can make anything they want but there can be a limit for a team to remain eligible. Reporting can be a requirement. Exceeding the limit is an eligibility issue not a legal issue. Contacting an athlete that is not in the portal can be prohibited for teams to remain…[Read more]

Every defensive strategy is an acceptance of risk points to gain advantage in other aspects. In press man defense there is an attempt to control best early in the count. When the defense gives up yards it is often viewed as a coverage mistake. Not only can our DBs make cover mistakes but cover can be strained to breaking point by too slow pass…[Read more]

We have a smaller than usual list of open items which encourages me. We also have possibilities for each open item, we just need to see the outcomes. QB is a big open item, however at the start of 2021 we really didn’t know what we had in Rising. Can Rose or Johnson be a similar unknown? Two possibilities to get one is good odds. We don’t know…[Read more]