Holladay Ute

Haha, very fair point. I fully accept that others (including you) were right (and I was wrong) earlier in the season when they were pessimistic (and I was more optimistic). I did not see us going on such a grueling and painful losing streak. And I do think Whitt deserves criticism after the last two seasons.

Part of what I’m saying here though…[Read more]

He had this title years ago…and then they took it away for good reason. At the peak of cancel culture in the USA (2020), most programs would have fired him and moved on. Utah stuck w/ him. They reinstated that title less than six months ago. I’d be way surprised if he wasn’t fine w/ the current timeline and situation.

This is true. Whitt said that he might be able to come back. Kenan Johnson too.

As I said in the other thread…he knows our offense will be so good that he’ll never have any opportunities to punt!

Similar take to Miami. I went w/ 3 stars. I think Beck is promising (and as good as we could’ve gotten), but I don’t think we know enough (or have seen enough) to go any higher. I’m encouraged by what he’s done at where he’s been. I’m very intrigued by the strong run game New Mexico generated (this is a part of Utah’s identity / formula for…[Read more]

I wish people on here were generally more optimistic about things. I feel like most people (or at least the loudest voices) tend to be chronically half glass empty. And although I like to have all perspectives to inform my own perspective, I wish there was a little more hopeful commentary here. It’s good to have the reality checks and sometimes…[Read more]

Gundy won them the Fiesta Bowl a few years ago.

The reasons why I think it’d be more reasonable to fire Gundy versus Whitt: We had a really bad year, but they had a REALLY bad year. We were 5-7 and all our losses were arguably competitive/close. They were 3-9 and got blown out a bunch of times. Their players quit on the season. Ours didn’t.…[Read more]

I would be excited if we got this guy. I’m not even sure we could get him if we tried hard? Somebody that passed for 2,700 yards, ran for 1,000, and accumulated 31 total TDs w/ 12 INTs seems like a hot commodity. I’m ignorant to our other options. What other good QBs are in the portal (or might be in the portal soon) that we could…[Read more]

It seems like there are a lot of Utes doing well in the NFL.

https://utahutes.com/news/2024/12/5/football-utes-in-the-pros-week-14.aspx

He knows that our offense is going to be so good next year that he’ll never get opportunities to punt!

Repeating much of what was already said.

I’m not disappointed, but I’m not going to allow myself to get super excited either. No matter who we got, my feeling was and still is to reserve judgement until we’re at least 3-4 (maybe even 6) games into next season. Maybe the other two guys were higher up on the target list. Maybe not though.…[Read more]

I don’t trust any of the gossip and rumors about culture dynamics (between coaches and players, etc.) b/c my own experience indicates that it’s turned out to be mostly just that: gossip and rumors. If I had reliable information about the situation and if I wasn’t part of the problem, there’s no way I would be spreading gossip and rumors as a…[Read more]

I mean, clearly he knew that Whitt still had multiple years left on his contract.

Did you listen to it? I’m only questioning b/c I posted it at 9:36 and you responded at 9:41. It was a five minute video segment that I was highlighting. Maybe you were sitting there waiting for responses and so you saw my response immediately after I posted it and then immediately loaded the link, immediately found the segment I highlighted,…[Read more]

Everyone on here should listen to five minutes of this interview (specifically from 16:30-21:30). Curious to hear if this changes anybody’s speculation about what’s going on behind the…[Read more]

Will be interesting to see where things go for them. Although, I would say our situation is not as dire as theirs…

I don’t think this is enough information to form opinions or conclusions. Based on my experience on this website, I feel like the reliability of a lot of these sources ends up being spotty. I also have a source that is theoretically very close to the program (I’d bet as close as whoever the sources on here are). I never post anything I get from…[Read more]

This one is a downer, but it’ll be hard to keep all the guys you want to keep. It seems like the most important ones have been staying. It’s not like Fotu was incredible for us.

This isn’t surprising. And I’m not sure it increases the level of concern either (at least relative to where we were already at). Of course Oklahoma is going to beat us out for an OC. As for Texas Tech, definitely more of a bummer, but why wouldn’t he go there unless Utah was willing to offer meaningfully more money? And I would be a little…[Read more]