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This program was stale and badly needed a refresh. Make no mistake, having Rising, Kuithe, and Ludwig gone is good for this team, and they should have been gone after the last Rose Bowl game. The entire Rose Bowl team was built around two players. When those two players got SERIOUSLY injured, we should have moved on from them and built a new team around new players. Instead, we decided to stick with the old scheme and old players, despite the old players being shadows of their former selves. This created many issues in all facets of the Utes CFB program including recruiting, coaching, team bonding, leadership, and overall program growth. How

We had guys sticking around due medical redshirts, and others sticking around due to COVID years. This completely clogged up the flow of our football program, and brought everything to a screeching halt. If Rising and others had moved on when they should have, we could have used the momentum from our success to recruit newer, better players. Instead, all our stars stayed, and newer players didn’t want to come because they knew they would be stuck behind our stars.

We needed a refresh, and we got one with a new OC, a new offensive system, and a completely new offensive look. Is it a good refresh? If good means better than the last two years, I think it is nearly impossible for it not to be good. We’ll see how much better than the last two years we are when next season rolls around.

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Problem on offense and defense is the same tonight. Letting the other team play their game. We are timid on both sides of the ball. Afraid to shoot on offense. Afraid to attack on defense.

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guys, he’s played on two teams and has done nothing for either one. I’m supposed to believe the problem has been his offensive coaches and not his own talent?

Not buying it.

[chinngiskhaan]

I’m glad he’s back, but is this really a big deal? I’m glad he’s is showing personal growth, but the chances of him contributing meaningfully are small.

Not poo pooing the player or his return, just seems like this warrants very little celebration.

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😂

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Last year we thought we had an improved stable of QBs over the previous year, and they were equally ineffective. I have hope that the new staff will be able to get more out of this group of QBs, but I refuse to drink the kool aid until we see the on field product against a proven good team. I thought we were in for a great season when Wilson helped us win against Ok St, but they turned out to be awful this year just like us.

I’m liking the additions to the staff and the roster, but I will reserve judgement until no sooner than game 4.

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I will beat this drum until I die: No college level basketball player should ever have a career FT shooting percentage below 70%, and no team in any game should shoot below 70% from the line. Its the same damn shot every damn time. There is no excuse for missing. I’ve been able to hit 85-90 out of 100 consistently since I was like 14, and I haven’t played in an actual basketball game (even pickup) for 5 years, and haven’t played organized ball since 2006. The only reason for ineptitude at the free throw line is a lack of practice. In games, missing free throws is a lack of proper conditioning, and a lack of FT practice. Everyone on the team that can’t hit 8 out of 10 with the mfing eyes closed needs to be putting up 500 a day until they get there. I don’t care how s**tty your mechanics are, if you do it enough times you should be able to figure out how to make it go in consistently.

I’m 100% confident I could learn to hit 75% of my free throws kicking them aussie punt style if I had a year to work on it.

If I were a HS basketball coach, I would not allow anyone on my team to get minutes if they couldn’t put in the effort to learn to hit 75 out of every 100 foul shots they took.

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Yeah, I’m not trying to suggest Whitt should have seen the future and canned Ludwig after 3 stellar years in a row. Had Rising and Kuithe left back then, Ludwig probably would have done much better these last two years, but they didn’t, Ludwig was terrible, and he needed to go.

The coaches did the best they could with the info they had, which was apparently bad info (regarding Rising’s injury).

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oh, well that makes it all better because he is a proven commodity at WR. /s

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I watched very little Utah football last year. What I saw of Nate was a quarterback that was good in one game and bad in all the rest. He didn’t seem nearly as fast in pads as his 100m time indicated he was. Is that because he was used incorrectly? Possibly. HJe didn’t do anything notable for Vandy either. I like the guy, and I’m glad he’s back, but my expectations will be exceeded if he gets non-garbage time touches.

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