2008 National Champ

three things can happen when you throw the ball and two of them are bad – Woody Hayes

Oregon fans do love to wear their “Ted Bundy graduated from the University of Washington” t-shirts

we’re in agreement on that. Player turnover is how you keep your program strong.

I don’t favor pushing kids out but as long as everyone is honest about potential playing time and goals, the system works.

that phenomenon happens at blue bloods also

As a general rule, taking too many kids from a single HS during a recruiting cycle is not a good idea. Unless that HS is at the level of Mater Dei or IMG Academy, not all of their players are P5 quality even though they might have good HS stats.

I remember bringing him up during that cycle. Was it you that said he wasn’t a good fit?

I wonder what’s changed in the last two years since he never held a Utah offer?

Every team has 10 position coaches. There are only so many ways to split up the position groups so I doubt that Utah is the only team in the country with a DT and a DE coach.

Part of it comes down to how the positions are named. Teams that run a 2-4-5 will have a DT, Inside Linebacker and an Outside LB coach. Outside LB’s or Edge players have…[Read more]

oh, hah, yes I see how you could think I was suggesting that. 🙂

People (not me) have been bringing up on other threads that Ludwig be relieved of coaching QB’s and when I looked up Ludwig’s history I noticed that he was only OC/QB his first year at Vandy. So it was interesting to me but not really germaine to the point I was trying to make…[Read more]

UW and the points. Since 2018, only once has an Oregon/UW game been decided by more than 4 points. 2021 was a 10 point win for 10 win Oregon against 4 win UW.

Using this year’s team talent composite (yes, I know that we won’t know the 2024 roster until sometime during fall camp):

In order listed at FBS Schedules. Utah’s composite score for 2023 was 722.55. Higher ranked P5 on road = 0.59, higher ranked P5 at home = o.697

Southern Utah = 1.000
Baylor (678.00) = 0.697
@ Arizona State (687.01) =…[Read more]

but Ludwig’s going with guys that only know half the offense or less.

Johnson was in his 2nd year in the system. Whose job was it to make sure that he knew the offense? And if he wasn’t capable of learning the offense, whose job was it to call plays from the 1/2 he knew that would be the most effective? And if he wasn’t capable of l…[Read more]

Mike McCoy played from 92-94. Are we now crediting his development to Ludwig because he was a GA in 92?

Huntley and Lindley were both seniors for their one year under Ludwig.

It’s also interesting that Vanderbilt took away QB coaching from Ludwig after his first season, instead giving him TE’s for 2 years and RB’s the last. So Ludwig was…[Read more]

Ludwig was at Vanderbilt in 2018.

Taylor put in two years developing Huntley, Ludwig got the benefit.

Perhaps the success Rising has had in Ludwig’s offense is more a sign of Rising’s ability than Ludwig’s. None of Bentley, Brewer, Barnes or Johnson was able to run the scheme effectively which to me says that it is not QB friendly and Ludwig…[Read more]

Doesn’t the Arkansas win against Florida count?

I feel like the room needs another Fotheringham more than another Kuithe. King can already play the Kuithe role for the next couple of years.

There are no limits on consultants or analysts. There are rules regarding what contact they can have though. They can’t recruit, they can’t coach, I don’t believe that they are allowed to participate in practices other than observing.

Saban gets as many as he wants on the cheap since he hires recently fired head coaches who are being paid their…[Read more]

It’s set up so you have 5 coaches per side with the coordinators also having positional responsibility.

Safety, Corner, Linebacker, DE, DT
WR, TE, OLine, RB, QB

If you make Ludwig or Scalley coordinator only, you don’t get another assistant. But if 10 isn’t enough, I’d look at who is the weak link instead of trying to add to the…[Read more]

The pass numbers look worse since sack yardage goes against the run game.

It’s not a secret that the passing defense suffered after Fano went down, and then further when Barton did. Of course, that also coincided with playing against the better QB’s in the league. A lot of passes that missed open receivers the first half of the season were…[Read more]

My only preference would be as late as possible. This team needs as much time as possible to get whoever is going to play healthy.

Let Arizona keep Fisch. I’m starting to like the idea of beating a really good Arizona team to get to the first Big-12 championship game. I’m not expecting Colorado or Arizona State to be world beaters in 2024 so having another former PAC team be in the mix will help perception.

The next few years will be all about setting Utah up for the next…[Read more]