2008 National Champ

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]

Speaking of losing their grip.,,

The man (I guess I shouldn’t assume) said that he’s been to an average of 7.25 games per year for 54 years and you are calling him/her “fair weather” and a “snowflake”. You usually have decent ideas @AlohaUte, even if I don’t always agree with them, but you’re way over your skis today. Might be a good time to…[Read more]

Good stuff. It’s pretty hard to ignore 2019, 2021 & 2022 though which were the 3 best QB years of his tenure and also the 3 best running. So when Utah finally got complimentary football between run/pass and offense/defense, great things happened.

2008 was good but not outside the range of it’s surrounding years.

You’ll need to talk to my editor about clickbait headlines. I can only be held accountable for the content of my posts which are the most reasonable and levelheaded of any I’ve read on this site

2021: it would be between #11 Utah and #12 Pitt for the 5th conference autobid. Does the committee still jump 10-3 Utah 6 spots for beating Oregon in the CCG and rank higher than 11-2 Pitt? Bama, Michigan, Cincy & Baylor get the byes.

2022: it would be between #8 Utah and #9 K State for the last bye. Does the committee jump 10-3 Utah 3 spots…[Read more]

Everything is a binary choice and he’s the guy making the decisions. We can only evaluate what did happen, not whether a different option would have produced a different outcome.

The problem is that we’re not allowed to have an honest conversation about Whitt. Point out a specific failure and someone will pop up saying “but 20 years of…[Read more]

bigotry is a two way street, especially when it comes to religion

Nothing definitive, just like every other week of the year.