2008 National Champ

Bateman was a 4 star out of Cottonwood who went to Alabama. Maybe you are thinking of Cooper Justice who was Ludwig’s first QB recruit in 2019?

Cooper Bateman, class of 2013

I haven’t followed Johnson’s career. Which QB’s has he developed?

The portal opens in less than a month and Utah currently hasn’t named an OC. Who that’s planning on entering the portal right now chooses Utah to come and play offense next year? At least prior to 2024 you could sell receivers on playing with Rising in an offense that had been top 15 in 2021/2022. Now? Every kid in the country can quickly pull…[Read more]

Don’t put your eggs in the Huard basket. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he ended up throwing the same number of passes in his Utah career as Cooper Bateman. Or me. But at least my total fit with my recruiting ranking.,,

I find the recruiting ranking argument as a reason why Utah can’t have a great offense to be silly. Mike Leach had great offenses every year and no one confused WSU’s athletes for blue chippers. He chose one thing, coached his team to do it well, and ran it over and over daring the defense to stop it.

Utah’s current athletes running the…[Read more]

I’m with you on the thinking but Utah doesn’t currently have an Ashton Jeanty on the roster. And I’m not sure next year’s RB’s fit a power run game. I’m not one who believes that you have to have a 230 pound bruiser to run the ball effectively but if you aren’t going to run the defender over, you have to be able to avoid contact and I haven’t…[Read more]

Dirk Koetter? I’d say his current offense is Ashton Jeanty first, but not necessarily run first. From his Wikipedia page: At Arizona State, Koetter compiled a 40–34 (.541) record, and four Bowl appearances in six years. Under Koetter, who was also the offensive play caller, the Sun Devils became known for a vertical passing attack.

2001 ASU – 3…[Read more]

you saw his offense in the 2023 bowl game. If you weren’t impressed by the 14 points Northwestern put up against 1/2 of the Utah starting D, or the 22.1 ppg (106th in country), you aren’t going to be impressed with what he does at Utah.

That 22.1 was the high water mark for him at Northwestern. But it was an improvement from the 13.8 in 2022.

What coordinator worth his salt is going to come to Utah on a standard 3 year deal with a coach who could retire at any time? And why would Utah commit 1.5MM per w/ buyout for 3 years given the same reason?

Ludwig got a pretty sweet friends and family deal that should not be available to the next guy. I agree with people up above who said the…[Read more]

In a locker room if you are coming off as arrogant or entitled, it’s because that’s who you are. You can’t hide who are from your teammates. Winning will make others ignore it but as soon as that goes away, you don’t have any credibility. It’s not a freshman thing, it’s an asshole thing.

Film room: I found it interesting that the writer highlighted Tennessee running RPO in the red zone and the QB made the wrong read twice in a row so Bakajian called a reverse that should have been blown up as a great play sequence.

Oh, and am I the only one who thought the Spencer Fano wrinkle on the 2 point play was really nice but could have…[Read more]

Yep. I can’t imagine anyone having some fun with “this cute boy” and his sniffles in a locker room.,,

That post felt like a reaction to Rose’s mom’s post earlier in the week. Even though everyone is playing hurt, sick or emotionally spent at this point in the season, Wilson’ mom needed to point out what a hero her son was.

If Wilson wasn’t estranged from his teammates before, mama coming to his rescue isn’t going to make it any better.

I’ve been waiting all season for Wilson’s mom to check in. Now that I know how she feels, I can completely ignore everything bad that happened in that game.

I’ve gotten pretty tired of the “something was wrong with the QB but we decided to play him anyway” meme this season has turned into.

I’m of the belief that with Rose, Barnes & Johnson, the staff thought they could get through 2023 without Rising if necessary. And from the small sample size of Rose this year, I can see that logic even if I still feel like bringing in a solid QB like Graham Mertz would have been a nice insurance policy. Let’s not forget that Barnes & Johnson…[Read more]

2023 exactly the same. 2024, probably not much different. Are we really convinced that if Rising was not going to be available this year that Whitt / Ludwig would have found a transfer QB not only ready to start on day 1 but that the offense would be tailored to the new QB’s skill set? Because Jake Bentley and Charlie Brewer would beg to differ.

that’s more than a TD per quarter. when will this offensive football madness stop?

I don’t wish bad on the BYU football team. They are irrelevant to me unless they are playing Utah in any given week.

Now their followers who feel the need to attach some overarching ideal to the outcome of a game.,,

That game will come down to how tightly Colorado’s OLine is called. It bumpuzzles me how they can have 3 holding calls on one drive in the first half and then not another for the rest of the game. Must be great coaching.

Or how Hunter was able to commit OPI in front of the side judge and almost come up with a 40 yard reception. Because, as we…[Read more]