2008 National Champ

stop serenading me with your beautiful words

well shevitsky. now I’ve got to take it back 🙂

I stopped counting at 19 when I ran out of fingers and toes

symbol police alert:

M is thousands
MM is millions

3,000 M = 3 MM

The one key for the Penix turnaround was that he went to a school with an offense designed to showcase his arm while asking him to do little to nothing with his legs. Penix’s history would have made going somewhere with a scheme like Oregon’s a much bigger risk.

Should Rising decide to play next year, that is the kind of situation he needs to…[Read more]

there would a be a certain amount of irony were Rising to follow Tuttle at Michigan

2024 was the makeup year for not being allowed to play in 2019 based on the new rule. The medical redshirt would be for the 2023 season and need to go through the NCAA for approval.

Once you wipe 2019 and 2020 off the table as free years, you still have 5 years to play 4.

2018 – redshirt
2021 – redshirt freshman
2022 – redshirt sophomore
2023 -…[Read more]

@Utah: we seem to be on the opposite side of a lot of issues but I am 100% behind that post. Please enjoy a well earned upvote

The playbook isn’t. There aren’t any plays in there that aren’t in every other OC’s playbook. It always comes down to the plays called and more importantly, the sequencing.

My premise has always been that the Whitt/Ludwig way of doing things (because don’t for an instant think that Whitt doesn’t have influence on the overall vision) is try to…[Read more]

2015 makes sense when you consider ARod was the OC (I liked his scheme better than Ludwig’s even if the QB wasn’t as good but that’s an argument for another day) and it was the first season Sitake wasn’t the DC. It was also the first year where Hill wasn’t running the special teams and marked the beginning of that decline even if Wishnowsky and…[Read more]

May be mediocre but still 6-0. Hell, Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl and Dan Marino didn’t.

I was hoping we could have at least a week before the will he, won’t he talk started back up. Instead I got an hour to try to fall back in love with Utah football before the guest who won’t leave set up his tent in my brain again.

We don’t know when the injury happened. The torn meniscus, if the rumor is true, could have easily come on that last sack which was really ugly in real time.

He is eligible and as I read the quote from Whitt in the DNews, it’s not completely off the table for him to come back:

There is a possibility for Rising to take another medical redshirt and play an eighth year of college football.

“No, but there will be now that we’re in the sit…[Read more]

I definitely have more excitement for this weekend and it’s all because I now want to see how the kids rally and overcome everything that’s happened so far this year. That’s a hell of a lot better than spending all week hoping they don’t figure out a way to blow it again.

Thanks for letting me know Jim. Sounds more like a difference of opinion than that I said anything really bad.

I guess I’d like to see Rising’s last play be something other than not being able to avoid the rush and getting bent over in the 4th quarter at ASU. So even just a ceremonial goodbye where we could all express how much he’s meant to…[Read more]

Not sure if you spend any time at 247 but the UteZone writers are openly mocking Whitt’s injury news policy in damn near every article I read. Those guys (and gals) are almost as big of homers for Utah football as the DNews is for the parochial school so it’s not just us on here who are saying enough’s enough.

I doubt Whitt would do it but I’m seeing a parallel to what Harbaugh went through around 2020 at Michigan. He was underperforming expectations and close to being fired. The hammer came down and he kept his job under condition that he take a pay cut (I believe it was incentive laden but could be wrong) and overhaul his staff.
2021 he not only…[Read more]

Yeah, the “Ludwig’s offense is too complex” theory seems to have been borne from comments Whitt has made. We hear so often about individual players that they don’t know the playbook so that’s why they aren’t playing.

I think the reason Rising is able to run it so well is the time he was afforded in 2019 when he got to sit in the booth during…[Read more]

If I’ve truly said something offensive but don’t know what it was, how will I learn?