2008 National Champ

Fatigue was an issue in the first half. Pick 6’s are great but your D goes right back on the field. Same with the ST play where the O went 3 and out, or the punt block.

@BleedsRedUte: My theory is personnel. Utah doesn’t have a Safety who is excellent in run support like Bishop or Blair. Utah also doesn’t have an eraser at LB like Lloyd, Hansen, C. Barton.,, Because of those two missing elements, Scalley is having to play a read/react style instead of his favored attack.

Add in that the D Line hasn’t had a…[Read more]

While Baylor has won 5 straight. This upside down conference is sure baffling

I had Iowa State as my sleeper team but I doubt anyone had Iowa State / Arizona State as the favourites for the CCG with parochial school / Colorado ready to pounce if either or both falter. While at the same time the only thing keeping the two 20 year head coaches…[Read more]

Are we sure that wasn’t a former PAC crew? It was for the parochial school game

There’s 3 or 4 people in the booth for each side of the ball. Usually GA’s or Analysts who watch for specific things and try to identify trends. Since Bajakian isn’t just the QB coach, someone has to be keeping track of what the booth is seeing and communicate with the QB’s like all of the other position coaches do.

absolutely could have been a TD.

I’d need to see it again but from what I saw on replay, the “intended” receiver was still running downfield with his back to the QB. Bottari threw to the sidelines and the receiver turned it into a post. Just didn’t feel like it had the elements necessary for grounding. Especially when it’s very common for a QB to throw the ball into the ground…[Read more]

let alone twice in one day in different games. QB’s throw it out of bounds all the time. Must be a new emphasis call by Big 12 refs.

DeBoer might not get a 2nd season. Not sure he’s ever lost 3 games in a season before. Maybe at Fresno?

hee-hee. It is pretty much off brand for me not to be talking up another year of Whitt at this point isn’t it?

All you Whitt haters need to check yourself! He’s guaranteed to put up a 7-5 next year and get Utah in position for a playoff run in 2026. He’ll figure out the QB and OC issues if you negaUtes will just give him the time he’s earned.,, 🙂

He was the only one left to be the intermediary between the booth and the QB? Bottari was wearing the headset before he went in.

If the roster is correct, the only QB left after Bottari is Dallen Engemann and we’ll probably see Tao Johnson run wildcat all game before he sees the field.

Not to mention that 2 walkons have outperformed the multiple 4 star QB’s the program has brought in the last few years

Can only do that with a coaching change. It’s not as bad as the Pac-12 days where scholarships were guaranteed for 5 years but you still need a coaching change for a complete overhaul of the roster

Question 3: no chance in hell Whitt leaves 20 mil on the table and steps down. Sorry, I don’t believe all the people who have no concept of that kind of money who have this impression of a man they’ve probably never met, that he is altruistic enough to walk away from that amount. He’ll force Harlan to renegotiate his buyout so that he gets most,…[Read more]

You’ve hit on the problem though. It doesn’t matter who the OC Scalley wants. Because if Whitt is the Head Coach next year, the OC will be running the offense in the manner that Whitt wants.

And if I can go 3rd person here, 2008 National Champ does NOT know more about football than Scalley or Whitt. But both of those gentlemen are victims of…[Read more]

“This beautiful boy”? I’m not sure where he could have learned that kind of entitlement from.,,

Brian Johnson? Please tell me that Utah has better options for it’s future

I could literally throw a dart at cork board with all 133 names of current FBS coaches (minus Whitt of course) and come up with a better option to take over the program starting in 7 days than Brian Johnson no matter what upside you think he has.

but, but, but.,, someone saw him play in high school.,,