2008 National Champ

Unfortunately, that’s probably career ending. He’s played in 12, 14, 13 and 8 games his 4 years so neither a redshirt or medical are available. Maybe he’s shows out on pro day and gets a UDFA but that would be a really long shot.

Tuttle may have actually been the canary in the coal mine. He was on the leadership council and the rumor, never confirmed that I know of, was that he left because he saw players being held to different standards as far as behavior. He left the team so early in the season and I just never bought the excuse that it was because he wanted to play…[Read more]

ALL IN OR IN THE WAY doesn’t work with mercenaries. Maybe you can have that attitude when a kid who commits either spends 5 years doing it your way or calls it a career. But if you are changing out 25-33% of your team yearly in the portal, you’d better be able to manage their expectations instead of just your own

Rising had been separated from the team for a lot longer than since this latest injury. Guys will keep their mouths shut about one player getting the most money and attention when the team is winning. But that doesn’t mean they like or dislike the guy. Once things start going bad is when you find out how many different factions there really are…[Read more]

I know of one who didn’t

He shouldn’t be. Bob’s Used Car Lot should be able to pay any player on the Utes roster they want to.

First I’ve heard about his sister dying so I’m only going by the history available at the time

Thanks. The poor plays were coming so fast it was hard to remember the order

You’ve cracked the code. The problem the last 2 years has been lack of fan support

Joe Williams quit the team in 2016 because he couldn’t hang onto the ball. 4 weeks later, after all of the other scholarship backs were injured, he came back and fumbles weren’t an issue anymore. Thomas also overcame the early yips.

That’s probably the easiest thing to fix with a RB. You can’t teach them to like contact, pass blocking takes…[Read more]

it does take away from the “stayed committed” part of @UTE98‘s post though

so everything else I named is just fine and the only problem is that Bernard isn’t 230 pounds?

Before we build Bernard a statue next to Whitt’s, let’s not forget that he entered the portal and had committed to Deion.

Didn’t Wilson’s fumble/pick also come right after a goal line stop and before they scored?

If the sales pitch was come in and hold a clipboard because it’s Rising’s job no matter what you do, it’s no wonder the only guy to come in during the last 2 offseasons was a 5 star bust who had to drop down to the FCS level and barely completed 50% of his passes there.

Yeah, but since the ball will be spinning the opposite direction the receivers will have more drops 🙂

It’s not for lack of effort. 32.3 passes/ 35.4 runs per game. About 3 plays closer to 50/50 than norm but not completely out of line. To me, the question would be why isn’t Utah running the ball better this year?

Defenses not respecting Utah’s throw game, only one effective back, Utah’s interior O line not being adept at run blocking, TE’s not…[Read more]

2017 was also a completely new OLine after the 2016 crew all went to the league.

These aren’t linear degradations:

P – has been subpar since Wishnowsky left
K – has been subpar since Gay left
LB – has underperformed since Lloyd/Sewell
DB – has seen flashes of brilliance but not up to the standard of the 2019 squad that had 4 drafted. Other than Phillips/Bishop who would have been anything more than a backup on the best Utah…[Read more]

If anything, this season has lowered Wilson’s value. His warts have been put on display for everyone to see. No top program is going hard after an undersized kid who can’t cope with pressure in his face.