2008 National Champ

chaos week and Utah isn’t in a position to take advantage of it because they pissed the last 4 games away. sheesh

and with all that, their 3rd string QB just ran a nice two-minute drill for a score against a top 15 defense that shut down Ewers

I wasn’t real impressed when I saw that Utah’s only non-conference home game next year was Cal Poly while they were travelling to Laramie and UCLA.

If I was a season ticket holder I’d seriously consider not reupping with a slate of Cal Poly, ASU, Colorado, Texas Tech, K State and Cincinatti. Be prepared for a lot of late night games that…[Read more]

that’s how the peer review process works. otherwise, it’s just opinion v opinion and neither has to prove a thing to the other. but I did find it rich that the 2nd person felt the need to tell the OP that he needed to research and prove his opinion while providing nothing of his own.

QB’s get hurt. It’s the nature of the position and why so many rules are in place trying to prevent it.

Since 2017, the only years the opening day starter didn’t miss at least one game for injury were 2019 & 2021. Huntley played hurt from game 4 on and Brewer was a concussion waiting to happen. That’s a 25% success rate and none of the QB…[Read more]

Bishop is a huge loss which is why I’m so surprised Ritchie hasn’t been able to fill that role. He looked good doing just that in 2020 but has been a complete afterthought since. Hansen, Blair, Bishop.,, that’s close to a decade of SS’s that were great in run support and allowed Scalley to run nickel as his base since he didn’t need a third LB.…[Read more]

I don’t know why Utah is having so many injuries after spending the late 2010’s seemingly with no injuries to key players, especially on defense. It might not even have anything to do with the S&C since the gymnasts seemed to go through a period where they’d lose a couple of girls every year to Achilles tears.

He already sat 2022 behind Penix so his redshirt is gone

it’s up to you to do the research and prove his theory wrong

I wouldn’t forget and would gladly take the downvotes for it. At this point, bringing back Rising is like going all in every hand when you are losing at the poker table. At best you’re hoping to break even with one good result so that you can pretend all the losing hands before didn’t happen.

Why do so many feel the need to throw some form of this qualifier, he will be great in the future I’m sure, in with any criticism of Wilson?

He could end up great, he could end up a bust. He’s got 3 more years of college to become whatever he will be. But I’m struggling to understand why we all have to pretend that a below average QB, so far, i…[Read more]

You’re conflating things. The Utah Legislature is not the NCAA.

The NCAA has the power, or at least had the power, to enforce any of its rules against member schools of which USC was one. The California Legislature didn’t revoke any football titles from SC for breaking NCAA rules.

Unless there has been an audit that I am unaware of, not…[Read more]

regardless of their “private” school status, should BYU get audited the way Utah was to hold BYU accountable for how they’re using their NIL program?

No, they shouldn’t. It smacked of conflict of interest when the audit was done but a state supported school has different rules than a private school does.

Thanks Tony for linking! You don’t get enough credit for keeping the lights on and the trains running

Same reason people go back to the same place for a vacation, to the same bar they picked up a girl once before.,, trying to recreate something that is not recreate-able (probably not a word).

Rising and Whitt have each provided great things. Those are really good memories. Now is the time to create new memories, not chase the past ones.

I feel like we’re in this weird limbo period where eventually FBS will stratify into the NFL-lite division and the college division. I personally have no interest in the NFL-lite division but would follow Utah if they got in. But I’m not going to watch it, seek it out, or otherwise contribute my hard earned dollars just because TV execs think…[Read more]

If:

Utah plays Whitt ball – long drives, winning TO battle, get the lead and milk the clock – Utah wins 21 to 18

Utah doesn’t, this will get 2010 TCU bad