[jamarcus24]

The Jazz are trying to take the OKC Thunder route. The Thunder have spent the last decade stockpiling draft picks and assets and they full-on tanked two seasons in a row for high draft position and now they’ve been the top team in the west for the last two seasons. Even after all that, the Thunder still own THREE first round picks in the draft this year.

The Jazz have a pretty large bank of draft picks and trade assets for the foreseeable future. Now they just have to coach it up and develop it into something competitive.

[jamarcus24]

I find it more interesting a highly recruited, 5-star QB transferred to a place like Boise State when big-name contending teams are in the market for a QB next season. How does the QB from UNLV end up committing to Georgia one day, then flips to USC the next, and one of the top recruits in the nation last year swaps places with him in the MWC? Maybe Nelson just wasn’t as good as advertised.

[jamarcus24]

Good for us? Sure. Good for Rogers? Unless we become an air raid offense then probably not. He had a major drop off in production this year sans Mike Leach. I imagine he’d want to end up at a program that lets him sling it around. He’d be a great fit at Washington.

[jamarcus24]

The hilarious thing about this game is the Panthers basically have nothing to play for and it’s a win/win for the Bears.

The Panthers traded away their 2024 pick to the Bears last year to move up into the #1 spot to take Bryce Young. If the season ended today the Bears would own the #2 pick (by way of Carolina) and the #3 pick in the 2024 draft. So if the Bears win they’ll still have their own top 3 or 4 pick and the pick they got from the Panthers would be #1 or #2. If the Panthers win the Bears will still have two top-5 picks, possibly their own #1. If any team should be tanking this year it’s the Bears.

[jamarcus24]

Game Day in SLC would be great. My dark horse pick is South Dakota/South Dakota State.

[jamarcus24]

Funny enough, the year the Jazz were really supposed to tank was the year they blew it all up in the off-season. We shipped Rudy and Donovan away and we were supposed to be in the tank sweepstakes for Victor Wembanyama, but the Jazz started the season on a 10 or 11-game win streak.

I think the fan sentiment here in this state is that we’re not used to seeing the Jazz at the bottom of the standings in consecutive seasons. In most seasons the Jazz have a couple all-star-level players and are competing for a home playoff spot. It’s also my opinion that the Donovan/Rudy years just kind of fell into our lap and the front-office wasn’t prepared to see it through long-term. We had a short window to build a contender and when the Mike Connelly/Joe Johnson/Bojan Bogdonovic acquisitions didn’t pay off right away it seemed like the fire sale approach was the only way to go from there.

“Trusting the Process” is a hard sell to pitch to your average Jazz fan.

[jamarcus24]

I believe that’s what Urban Meyer did when he was here. Whit ran the defense, Sanford ran the offense, Urban oversaw it all, but he ran special teams. I don’t recall whether or not we had stellar kicking or punting, but I do recall our coverages were excellent and we went after punters a lot.

[jamarcus24]

Yes, JJ is suited up and taking reps right now.

[jamarcus24]

Jeff Fisch was at UCLA before Chip. Not an overall impressive head coaching resume, however he seems to have Arizona headed in the right direction. Their recruiting classes have been pretty good the last couple years and he’s got that program on the up and up.

[jamarcus24]

If I were calling shots at USC I’d go after Jim Leonard, former Wisconsin DC. His defenses were consistent top 10 in the nation and when he didn’t get the head job last year he left the program and is an analyst at Illinois right now. Leonard is a guy who knows the B1G and would probably completely turn SC’s soft defensive culture around. If Scalley were to some reason take off after this season Leonard is a guy I hope Whitt would go all out for.

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