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Yeah, that false start penalty made me wonder why those don’t count as a free play for the defense; kind of like how offside is a free play for the offense.

I wonder what it would be like if they were allowed to continue the play and the defense was allowed to accept/reject the penalty.

I can’t bring myself to believe anything like this from Whittingham anymore… The past season and a half have made sure of that.

Yeah, that is kind of what I was trying to say with part of my previous message. I guess I didn’t do a great job.

Well, I guess I see that I am in the minority on this topic around here. Fair enough.

If you booed someone pretty much anywhere else in life, you would look pretty dumb. I guess society has decided it is okay in sports (or generally, events with large crowds). I suppose it must be due to our inability to convey more complex communication as a…[Read more]

How to call an offense at Utah:

Step 1) Choose one of the following:
A) Run up the middle
B) Throw a pass into coverage near the sideline
C) Run a trick play that tricks nobody

Step 2) Repeat step 1 until punt or score

Obviously reductive, but I think we can see why TCU (and everyone watching) pretty much knew what Utah was doing.

Yeah, I find myself wondering about this, especially this season.

Seems like when the other team is on offense, their receivers often have a ton of space. This has been true throughout the year. I know the defense has been pretty good at stopping other teams from scoring, but our pass defense has looked pretty bad.

On the other side, why does it…[Read more]

Okay…

Person posts “I have quit Utah football” on a Utah football fan-site talking about Utah football…

Sure you have…

I like your optimism, but not your comparison.

It has become quite clear to me that there is a portion of our fanbase that has become just as bad (or worse) than the portion of the TDS fanbase that we like to ridicule.

All off-season people had to listen to the obnoxious portion of our fanbase gloat about superiority. Then we got to listen to…[Read more]

Yeah, I hate the prevent defense.
I understand wanting to limit big plays or whatever, but what is the point when you end up simply allowing the other team to march down the field at will?

However, I think I hate the ‘prevent’ offense Utah seems to run even more.
It is more like the “predictable three and out” offense.

You’d think I’d be used to…[Read more]

You don’t play to ‘develop’. You play to win.

You ‘develop’ in practice, in the weight room, and in film study.
If you are destroying the other team, then you put in your backups to ‘develop’.

If a starter is injured, you play the backup (who gets a chance to ‘develop’).
Once the starter is healed, if they give you the best chance to win, you play them.

🤦‍♂️ What kind of take is this?

Rising is obviously injured, but he is one of the best quarterbacks to have played at Utah. Now you want to bench him for a freshman? Zach has looked good at times, but he has definitely looked like a freshman at other times.

Don’t get me wrong, I too am tired of this will he / won’t he play charade. However,…[Read more]

No matter who says it (even the man himself), I don’t think I can believe that Cam will play until I see Cam playing.

Last season made sure of that…

Yes…. and I hate it.

This isn’t always the case, but the Utah State game seems like it will be one of these cases (hope I am wrong).

Aren’t they stuck in the ACC like everyone else in that conference (for now)?

I wouldn’t expect Utah to change who they are to pander to a potential recruit. However, you also can’t expect to be able to recruit great receivers if you never throw the ball to your current receivers.

I like living in Utah and I am a big Utah football fan. However, let’s be real. If I was a four/five star wide receiver recruit from Utah and…[Read more]

I wasn’t trying to blame the players on defense; more the play calling. You are probably right about Wilson, but I still think they should have given him more ‘easy’ (none of it is easy) chances.

Yeah, I agree. Utah seems to be one of the only teams that consistently does this to their quarterbacks. Maybe this is Utah fan bias, and you can’t argue with success, but other teams allow their new/replacement quarterbacks to actually throw the ball.

Yeah… I wouldn’t take that if Rising is not starting. I assume we won’t find out until the game starts.

The offense looked pretty bad without Rising; however, I’m not sure how much of that was due to play calling.
Wilson missed some targets, but didn’t seem to get a lot of ‘easy’ attempts.
The coaches seemed to be determined to establish the…[Read more]

I was not at the game, but wondered why there were so many apparently empty seats.

While watching on TV during the second half, I was thinking to myself that nobody else (besides Utah fans and maybe Baylor fans) was watching this game; it was pretty lacking in entertainment. While I personally like to watch the game until the end, I don’t fault…[Read more]