2008 National Champ

sarcasm. hyperbole is in the eye of the beholder and does not have an html tag

I lived in Wichita for 6 years. I understand the weather patterns in that area.

If we were talking about golf, yeah weather absolutely matters because the morning flight can go out in clear skies with not a hint of wind while the afternoon flight has to play in a monsoon.

But it’s 2024. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to look up the last…[Read more]

This week’s game is why you watch college football. What appears to be two very similar teams and the range of outcomes will probably be somewhere between 49-0 either way.

Will one team have a better scheme and take control early and blow the other out? Will it be back and forth all day and come down to a single play whose outcome can be…[Read more]

Texas was credited with a sack in the Big-12 CCG last year so the streak would be at 4 games which is still pretty incredible. You need a great OLine as well as a QB who doesn’t hold the ball any longer than he has to.

It’s overblown because both teams have to play in the same conditions. Just like Utah’s opponents have to figure out a way to deal with the elevation and weather at RES, Utah has to figure out what to do when they go on the road. And it’s also very easy to overhydrate and cause the same physical issues you were referring to.

The whole…[Read more]

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I used to play softball tournaments in OKC. One year it was in the 80’s for a February tournament and then we got snowed on when we went back in March.

Which actually isn’t that different from Salt Lake. Plenty of humidity comes off that blue thing directly to the west and it was absolute writ that there would be at least one snow practice…[Read more]

at least half of the team and 90% of the coaches were in the Swamp two years ago. This temp/humidity thing is pretty overblown unless you think nothing has been implemented about how to prepare since then

I believe the shiny new indoor facility is climate controlled so they can set it to alot of different conditions. Hot/Humid should be in the parameters of what they can work out in.

We discussed this last year. Until the SC game, Utah had lost on the road to every team with a winning record and beaten every team with a losing record this decade.

Simply put, it’s hard to beat good teams on the road no matter the spread.

no, no, no. Only Utah receivers drop the ball. The other team can’t catch the ball because of great effort by the Utah defense 🙂

I’m nowhere near a Ludwig defender. I just don’t find that scenario to be outside the bounds of what you can expect out of 90% of OC’s.

With a more experienced QB in the game, perhaps there’s a hot tag or read option in that situation. But any call he makes on 2nd and 10 is going to be safe to try to get to 3rd and manageable.

That’s not a Ludwig issue. 3rd and 7 is converted at a much higher percentage than 3rd and 10 so most coordinators will call something safe to try to get 3 or 4 yards in the hopes that there’s a missed tackle to get 7 or 8 out of it.

The same social media that was touting him as player of the game week 1?

it certainly makes you wonder about the “you’ll become us, we won’t become you” when chances are being extended based on whether the staff thinks you can win games

Randle could always move back and Andrews would be available. It’s not what anyone wants but if Utah has gotten to the point where they need RB6 and RB7 on the depth chart to win games.,,

didn’t they just get the TD to go ahead? seems like their plan worked

Scalley has gone away from having his LB’s shoot the gaps so they are making their first contact after the RB/QB has already gained a couple of yards. In theory, it limits the big play but it also limits the game changing hits in the backfield we were used to with Hansen, C. Barton, Bernard, Lloyd and Sewell.

Whether that is a product of…[Read more]

RJ Hubert? Who actually wasn’t that bad, he just couldn’t live up to 4 years of hype while he was rehabbing from multiple injuries. Hubert seemed to get no credit for his great plays – like his pick against SC in the CCG – and vilified for his mistakes.