2008 National Champ

I wonder if Whitt reverts to coachspeak at home.

Wife: Did you take out the garbage like I asked?

Whitt: I will evaluate, obviously, before the day is over, but my removal of the garbage will be based on what’s best for the house, not what’s best for me. It will be completely determined on how I feel this house is best served going forward.…[Read more]

We all know Scalley is the next HC and we hope he’s gonna be great.

FIFY

Probably just here to Urban Meyer us. Which I’m ok with.

If those two years are DeBoer at UW level, sign me up.

The truth as I see it is that any coach who wins 9 games at Utah will be a commodity going forward. And I’ll take as many of those as you’re willing to throw at me. Whitt is a unicorn and current recruits have no idea who McBride i…[Read more]

Playing Wilson this year just moved up the inevitable. We got to see his true talent level and decision making instead of putting all of the 2025 hopes on him. And quite frankly, as bad as the Wilson hype was for the last 2 years, the lead up to 2025 would have been insufferable around these parts if he’d rode the pine this year.

If the stories are true, it was Taylor who put his foot down on starting Huntley. Whitt wanted to go with Williams

Cignetti just signed a deal worth ~ 1.5 MM more per annum than Whitt makes. That’s a non-starter

does he get steak knives?

seriously though, if there’s a limit to how much we can discuss the same topic over and over and over and over, this site will dry up in a hurry

we’ve all forgotten a Utah example.

Troy Taylor coach Jake Browning at Folsom HS, went to Eastern Washington as OC, Freddie Whitt played the part of Marvis Barry in Back to the Future, Taylor OC’d at Utah then took over his own FCS program before Stanford.

The biggest problems with bringing in a HS coach in any capacity are their lack of recruiting acumen and they can’t bring their own coaches with them. And isn’t there still a rule that you can’t recruit from their school for 2 years?

I’m okay with giving Whitt a prove it year but only on the condition that he overhauls his entire offensive staff. I wouldn’t commit to 3 years under any circumstances based on his proximity to retirement and downward trend of results

Absolutely has to be trolling. No one in their right mind says He deserves another 4 or 5 at minimum if he wants it to turn it around.

The citizenship requirements are the biggest hurdle keeping most players from going to the CFL

A HS coaches best chance is to catch on as a coordinator. The example I know about is Art Briles who was running a new offense and trucking people in Texas. He got hired on as Houston’s OC, then moved to HC before taking the Baylor job.

I’m sure there are more but the only high school HC going straight to top level college HC I remember was…[Read more]

I’ve purposely avoided saying anything bad about the Big12 other than that I would rather be in a west coast conference. But I do wish Big12 school / fan would recognize that Utah joining that conference without Oklahoma and Texas in it would be like any of their teams joining a PAC-12 without USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. They wouldn’t be…[Read more]

7 game losing streak. Rough equivalents in other sports would be 100 straight losses in MLB, or 50 straight in the NBA. The only people who don’t find losing 7 straight a fireable offense are rooting for the man and not the program.

The real question for everyone for anyone wanting Whitt to stay right now is: “How bad does it really have to get…[Read more]

You’re projecting. OP said nothing of the kind

I hate it when I can’t tell which side of the fence @Roboute is on.,, but man he paints a picture

I’m probably late to the party but a light bulb just went on for me. Since the players are now going to be getting money straight from the schools, whether they are called employees or not, there has to be a contract involved. Seems like a standard 3 year deal for incoming freshmen and remaining eligibility for transfers would be the smart way…[Read more]

And the fact that if you’ve let it get to one game before his contract runs out to make a decision on extending, you’ve already decided to move on.

But to play the hypothetical, no. I would invoke the 3 years of program ambassador or whatever his new title will be and move forward. I would rather let him move on one year early instead of 3…[Read more]