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Brutal. This makes it hard to be a fan of college sports.

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Has to be.

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I’m not an expert on this subject, and I don’t even disagree w/ you. But is this a political forum now or a place for fans of college athletics?

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I’d take him back in a heartbeat. He showed a lot of upside. He seems to have better odds than anybody else we’ve had of becoming that lockdown CB we’ve lacked over the past two years.

I’m guessing that he had a good NIL package from Utah until right before the transfer portal opened and then somebody offered him meaningfully more. Maybe we could still match or get closer and he could come back. I think it’s lame how he handled it leading up to the portal (like getting stabbed in the back, at least for a fan) and I think the system is broken, but I can’t fault a kid like this going after potentially life-changing money.

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I know it. Utah needs to get this guy. It seems like he’d be a game changer for our offense w/ Beck and Dampier.
I’m trying to not get too excited about the prospects of our team w/ him though. So much better when Utah has the underdog mentality and lower expectations.

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There’s definitely positives to it. Talented 4* recruit out of high school, got a lot of experience last year (hopefully learned a lot), and showed us some glimpses of his potential. And it’s nice to have more depth at that position.

I’m not sure what to believe regarding the “attitude” and “culture” problems we’ve heard about all year? Was all of that true? And then the weird decision to make him second string (when he clearly should’ve been third string behind Rose). When he went out there, it just looked like the team didn’t want to play for him (but they would play for Rose or Bottari). Based on these things, I thought it’d be good to clean house and have a fresh start. If somebody is a cancer in the locker room, they will do way more bad than good. Obviously, the coaches are excited to have him back so I guess we have to trust them. How do you know the players are excited too?

Clearly nobody wanted him in the portal. I’m not sure this is great news?

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Maybe everyone on here is totally happy to share perspectives on hot button political topics through the misc. category. I’m not speaking for everyone else on the website and I’m not the administrator. I’m just saying that for me personally, I don’t come onto this website for that. I just want to come on here to interact w/ a community of Utah fans about Utah Athletics and only Utah Athletics. The name of the website is UteHub. In the “About” section of the website, it pretty clearly states what this website was intended to be. There are a million other places online that any of us could go to discuss and debate hot button political topics. Maybe I just need to become a UteZone subscriber.

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I’m directionally in the same camp, but probably a little more pessimistic generally.

I initially would’ve said B+ for Beck (given he was the third choice), but maybe it is an A- now that A) we got Dampier and B) it looks like Whitt isn’t going to micromanage as much as feared.

I’m meh on Detmer (so a C), mainly b/c I don’t know much about him (except for his playing career and his family relationships). He has NFL experience, but it doesn’t seem like he’s done much since then (coaching high school)?

Atuaia is exciting, but I would only give him an A if we get the WSU RB to transfer here. Otherwise A- or B+.

I would grade Simon a D in isolation (given we know almost nothing about him based on his very limited track record), but given the Beck connection, I bump it up to a C.

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I wonder why they haven’t fixed this. It feels like it’s been bad for years now. On top of what you mentioned…

FG kicking has been spotty (unreliable) and it’s a miracle if we gain positive yards on a punt return. It’s been a dumpster fire. I think the only positive thing is that our punting has been good…but haven’t we had one or two blocked in recent years? And now we lost our punter.

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Agree w/ this. Utah has limited resources and we just have to trust that the program allocates them in the best way possible for the team. Would love to have Calhoun back if it works out.

Hopefully, the coaches are smarter in how they allocate NIL going forward. I still don’t fault them for bringing Cam back b/c we’d be in the playoff if he hadn’t gotten injured (I would’ve done the same thing). In hindsight though, I wish we wouldn’t have paid Cam who’s just proven to be too injury prone and kept JJ instead.

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