2008 National Champ

And there’s a vocal part of the OSU fanbase that wants a different coach. Which is what happens when fans delude themselves into believing that only championships EVERY year are acceptable outcomes.

It’s a good thing Utah doesn’t have any fans who spend the whole offseason trying to convince anyone who will listen that championships are not…[Read more]

does it have to do with tires?

Baylor is also a possible job that will be opening up this year. Not sure they’ll want another defensive guy after Aranda but that’s a place that could be turned around pretty quickly with the right guy and he’d get P4 money.

With Rising in the game, the D has to respect the hot routes and the ball coming out quick. With Wilson, the decision making is slower and he’s struggling to come off his first read consistently so you can devote more resources to forcing him to make decisions before he is ready.

ASU was content to drop 7 against an inaccurate QB last night and…[Read more]

I think Hill would have to take a pay cut with the USU job. There will be more attractive jobs open this year and Hill will be a candidate at a lot of them. Because he has HC experience, he’s better able to evaluate which jobs are set up for success and which will get him fired in 2 years.

Vegas could be a good stepping stone job if Odom moves…[Read more]

Guarantees are easy to give out when they can’t be proven right or wrong

I was given a lifetime ban from drinking whiskey in my early 20’s so I never got to the point where I could afford to try any good ones. Canadian Club, Canadian Mist, Seagrams, Crown was pretty much all I could afford.

Got my dad a bottle of MacAllan 18 for his 75th birthday but didn’t try it.

Yes, I’m a big fan of the Kiltlifters but not many people make it. Are you getting 4 Peaks? Or maybe the Pike’s version out of Washington. Both are much smoother than an IPA, in my opinion, without the fruitiness of a Hefeweizen. Alaskan Amber was my go to about 20 years ago and 4 Peaks has been a nice next step.

Sure but you have to play with what you’ve got, just like your opponent. If’s won’t change the last 6 results and will have no effect on the next 6. So the only thing that sounds asinine to me is playing the what-if game.

What if Rising was fully healthy last night. What if ASU wasn’t missing two defensive starters the first half along with…[Read more]

follow up:

Anyone notice that Vegas’s offense hasn’t missed a beat the last two games? Imagine having a fully qualified backup who was ready to take over if the starter got injured or was otherwise unavailable for any reason. I guess that can only happen at deep pocketed universities like Texas or UNLV.

I’d rate the possibility of Odom considering Utah about a 3 out of 10. He’s going to get an SEC/B1G offer after this season now that the stink of how his tenure ended at Missouri is gone. Both UNLV and Missouri are historically tough places to win so he should get a pretty look.

The offense Odom ran with Drew Locke (Heupel as OC) seemed pretty…[Read more]

oh, and welcome to the board. I enjoyed our conversations at Block U

It’s the same team that started the year. There were just 3 really bad opponents to make it seem better than it was. Oklahoma State is interesting for comparison though because you have two long-tenured coaches who seem to have lost the narrative at exactly the same time.

At this point, I’m trying to decide if two things are true…[Read more]

If you really wanted him, the time to get Cignetti was after last season. He’s not moving from Indiana until he gets offered one of the top 10 jobs like DeBoer did when he moved on from Washington.

I realize there haven’t been a lot of hiring opportunities since I started being a Utah fan in 1988 but what you need to try to replicate is the…[Read more]

2024 Utah isn’t even in the same conversation as 2024 Florida State when it comes to fan disappointment.

Fano is struggling with losing contain. I think Barton got blamed for a couple of his because the numbers look so similar. That 12 yard run by Leavitt to the left side in the first half was all on Fano taking too direct an angle to the QB.

Scalley’s D is missing two very important elements that he relies on almost to a fault. He doesn’t have an eraser at ILB in the mold of Lloyd, C. Barton, Bernard or Hansen (-on?). Reid is a step up from what we saw last night but he is not that caliber.

He also doesn’t have a safety who can play in the box or at the LOS. Ritchie looked like he…[Read more]

You and I are good Sal, at least from my point of view, and always have been. The title of the thread gave me the opportunity to say something I’ve wanted to for a long time and I went after it with both barrels.

I’m a contrarian by nature and don’t have an ego when it comes to my opinions being challenged. You may not change my mind but I…[Read more]

Definitely feels like the stranglehold JoePa had over Penn State.

How have Harlan’s other hires gone? I only follow Utah football and gymnastics and he did a terrible job by keeping Farden as long as he did.

It probably came off as more flippant than intended but the concept is sound. It’s more about making sure that all the pieces are in place for a seamless transition as quickly as possible so that you don’t allow an untenable situation to continue. I’m not there with Whitt and have never called for him to go but if the decision is that he needs…[Read more]