2008 National Champ

I don’t see how Utah gets up for the UCF game unless it’s to get bowl eligible which requires winning against Colorado or Iowa State. And if Utah isn’t motivated, UCF could end up with 400 yards rushing since that has been the Utah D weakness this year.

Everything pointed to a potential UCF loss when the schedule came out. But it would be so…[Read more]

fully agree. Really, the only complaint I can come up with for Harding is that he’s not having the same success recruiting interior linemen as he is with tackles. Unless Garcia and Alderman can move inside, I’m not sure they will see the field until Fano & Lomu leave or get hurt.

Tackles get a lot of credit but elite guards are really hard to…[Read more]

The good thing about being the prettiest girl at the dance is you get to pick which guys you’ll pay attention to.

Jackson State and Colorado were schools willing to take a chance on a coach whose style score outweighed his resume. He’s now proven that he can outrecruit the standard at those schools while also winning games at a rate not achieved…[Read more]

Those are pretty close to the 2023 numbers. Since it’s not being used to light the U anymore, someone needs to wire that detonator device to the offensive coaches offices and take them to rubble. Anything short of a complete rebuild at this point is a waste of effort and resources.

Tony loves ticket price increases like a fat kid loves celery. That’s one of his favourite tropes

Cal & Stanford took massive pay cuts. SMU agreed to ZERO tv revenue for 9 years to get to move up. Private schools like Stanford & SMU can afford to do those kinds of things. Cal could only afford to because UCLA is giving them half of their B1G money as a condition of being allowed to leave Cal behind.

hee-hee. If you are standing on the North Pole and turn the corner 3 times, you are right back where you started

I’ve pointed out that the last two games whenever I see Wilson on the sidelines he has his helmet on, almost as a talisman against his teammates. I’m obviously reading into it but with his body language and the things we are now hearing, it seems I was right to think the helmet being on wasn’t a sign that he was ready to go into the game at any…[Read more]

But it’s even more of a coaching failure because when they did run Rose, it was in high leverage situations. There was at least one 3rd and medium that a designed QB run was called.

I will say this in the coach’s defense. I don’t think you can diagnose Lisfranc without an MRI. So it comes down to what the player is reporting as far as pain.…[Read more]

Tao Johnson was a QB in high school. Surely you could come up with some option packages with him. Run it enough times and Singer will be open on the backside post. Essentially a stripped down version of what Oregon ran with Anthony Brown in 2021 that got them to the CCG before running into the Utah buzzsaw. But it should be enough to win 2 of…[Read more]

There’s only a couple of jobs worth taking in the SEC though, even if all were being offered. If you’re at Deion’s stage of life, do you really want to take over another major rebuild? There was a lot of latitude available in taking the Colorado job because the expectations were so low and the competition wasn’t that scary.

Auburn might want…[Read more]

Yep. Harlan gave Whitt the extension and named Scalley coach in waiting. They are both Harlan’s guys now, whether they were hired originally by him or not.

You fire Harlan, other than for cause of which his actions Saturday are an indicator of potential cause, because you want to change direction from Whitt AND Scalley. If you’re going to…[Read more]

I disagree with both you and @AZUTE but only want to reply once. Hopefully this works for both.

@Sal: Between your 5 O Linemen and whatever TE’s you incorporate into your blocking scheme, you’ve got a lot of different skillsets. Some are more adept at run blocking, some pass, some are better lateral, etc. Very few at this level are good at…[Read more]

It was nice going a day without arguing over something that can’t be changed. And makeup calls aren’t really a thing in football. It’s a nice conspiracy theory but the facemask was in the first half and Vaughn’s hold was in the last 2 minutes of the game. Too much leverage on Vaughn’s call to be a makeup.

Anyway, it took about 12 seconds to…[Read more]

Is this the artist formerly known as RavenousUte?

Luv those vids. Keep ’em coming.

What the fascination with Charlie Vincent coming in every time they run wildcat? Is he really the best option running the sweep action? I’d think there would be more benefit with Stanley and his speed influencing that Edge/LB on the fake than Vincent trying to block them.

Jerry got his titles with college coaches who moved up and hasn’t done much with all his NFL guys. Makes sense he’d want to go back to the future

I remembered this post when I came across this article today. Norvell’s buyout is 64 MM and change.

For me, the math would be what revenue do I lose by keeping him employed and when that number is greater than or equal to his current buyout number I pull the trigger. I’m just going to throw some numbers out as an example because the exact value…[Read more]

that list won’t come out any quicker than the Epstein list. People with money and/or political power are pretty good at not being held accountable for their indiscretions.

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