GameForAnyFuss

When was the last time we were picked this high?

Unless you think the coaches are trying to deliberately sabotage the program or trying to deliberately lose games, then the only possible explanation is #2.

If being 4-1 with the only loss coming on the road to a top-20 team is the most frustrating season you can remember, then you don’t have a very good memory.

Cam was expected to return imminently all the way until this last week.

That’s exactly my point. During recruiting season, the coaches thought Cam would be back in the fall and would have told recruits that.

All it takes is telling recruits, yeah… He’s still on the team, but he won’t be playing for at least a year.

But that’s not what coaches would have said in the spring (when the portal opened) because that’s not the story they had back then. In the spring, they thought Cam would be back in the fall. No QB1-level guy is going to come when he’s…[Read more]

Scholarship players get the higher trim package. The one with the power sliding door and ceiling-mounted DVD player.

There’s a third option: Whit tried to get a QB1-level player from the portal and couldn’t close the deal, leaving us with a bare cupboard.

And not being able to get a QB like that actually isn’t too far-fetched. No good QB is going to see the situation at Utah, where Rising may be back at the beginning of the season, and want to sign up for that.…[Read more]

I think Utah will be an NIT team. Outside shot at an NCAA berth if Deivon Smith gets his waiver. Bajema is going to be a significant upgrade over Stefanovic, and I’m excited to see how Exacte and Keita have improved (word on the street is they’ve both stepped it up).

Oh, and FREE LUCA TARLAC!

Alex Smith was a 2* recruit with only one div 1 offer,

Alex Smith was an outlier. Occasionally you hit a home run with an outlier like we did with Alex, but do you know what you become when you base your recruiting strategy on outliers? You become BYU-Provo Campus.

It may feel good to look at the record and ignore the context but what good does that do anyone?

Well, it may help with some peoples’ mental health, and a quick glance at the board this morning tells me that might be needed.

Yeah, losing sucks, but perspective is needed.

If I’d told you that Utah would be 4-1 at the bye week while basically playing with the scout team, every one of us would take that in a heartbeat.

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I have learned how not to let my mood be dictated by sports. Utah winning or losing this football game doesn’t impact anything that truly matters in my life.

I think you meant to say “Rising Johnson”, not the other way around.

Tomorrow’s headline: “Johnson drills sloppy Beavers”

I don’t know how you can conclude that UCLA has the better offense. They have played 3 bad teams. They may have the better offense or they may not – there is no evidence yet to support either conclusion.

All I know is they have a true freshman QB who hasn’t faced anything resembling a good college defense. Who knows what he will do under…[Read more]

Sorry, but the game is already gone. What you’re watching today isn’t college football.

Team category
Overachiever: Colorado (it’s not hard to do better than last, and their talent alone will win some games)
Underachiever: Washington (I just don’t see the difference makers on that team)

Player category
Overachiever: Briton Allen (raw talent that will make a quantum leap forward in this defense)
Underachiever: Rising (I just don’t…[Read more]

I have what I call an “hour rule” with airlines. In other words, what is the maximum duration of a flight above which I will not fly that airline?

For example, Spirit is a 2-hour airline. If my flight(s) will be longer than 2 hours, I won’t fly Spirit.
American is a 5-hour airline. I would fly them to the east coast, but no further.
United, Delta…[Read more]

All you have to do is call them “half shares”. Game over.