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This became much more likely after Scott Drew turned the job down in a pretty public way.

Don’t get me wrong, Pope is a good coach, but Kentucky absolutely had their sights set higher for someone with a bigger name and more postseason success.

But after publicly being turned down by Pats, Donovan, Drew and others, they needed to make a hire and…[Read more]

I’ve looked at a bunch of 7 round mocks. They all have Elliss, Bishop, Vaki going and I’m pretty sure they all have Laumea as well. Bills I’ve seen in some but not in others and I’ve also seen Vele in a few.

Given that 5 doesn’t seem unreasonable. 3 (or really 4) is the floor and 6 is the ceiling, though I doubt we hit that

Note that this article isn’t predicting seeds, but teams best positioned to make the playoff (regardless of seed). Liberty is #5 because of their likely easier path for a G5 bid, not because they will be the #5 seed

I think the issue is that NIL doesn’t just represent $$$ (which everyone wants), but also commitment and feeling valued.

It’s not as clear-cut as professional athletes (who often have more $ than they could ever use, but want the respect/credit with a huge contract), but I do think (for many) a big NIL deal is also a proxy for “how much do you…[Read more]

….Guessing you didn’t read the article that was written by people who get paid to analyse this

The only short-term concern is [Rising’s] health, especially after Utah lost veteran backup and 2023 starter Bryson Barnes to the transfer portal, along with Mack Howard and former ESPN top-100 recruit Nate Johnson.

Sophomore Brandon Rose enters his…

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Yeah, I mean ESPN ranked Utah as having the 14th best QB situation in college football. https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/39670797/college-football-future-power-rankings-quarterbacks

14th! That means there are (if my math is correct) 13 teams with better QB situations than us. What trash, can’t believe we’d fail so…[Read more]

Even if he had an itch to get back into coaching, it’s tough to see him coming to Utah.

For example, he’s from Indiana, his wife is from Indiana, he coached in the state (Butler), his dad played football for Indiana, and his son just committed to play basketball in Indiana (Notre Dame).

And as it turns out, Indiana (a marquee basketball…[Read more]

Base salary of $12.6M over 6 years. That’s an average of $2.1M per year.

His first year salary was $1.85M, which makes it likely his salaries (by year) are

$1.85M, $1.95M, $2.05M, $2.15M, $2.25M, $2.35M.

Meaning if we moved on this year it would be a $6.65M buyout…just more than what we had to pay Krystkowiak when we moved on.

Waiting until…[Read more]

Yes, Krystkowiak was making $3.8M…but he also ended up having a $6.5M buyout, which limited Utah’s ability to bid big on the next guy.

So it ended up being Craig Smith at $2.1M/yr (on average). But if Utah moves on from him now, there will be a buyout cost of…about $6.5M (maybe a bit more). Which will again limit spending on the next guy

Amazingly, in the last 13 years, all teams from the state of Utah (Utah, BYU, Utah St, Weber St, Utah Valley) have combined to win only 3 NCAA Tournament games … and they’ve all been by Utah.

That’s kind of depressing for the whole state

This will be his 6th season. And so far he’s been paid about $4.8M

Being one of 4 QBs means one of them isn’t going to make the roster. It’s not going to be Deshaun Watson and it’s probably not going to be Jameis. So it’s between the 6th year UDFA and the second year drafted QB. They don’t bring Huntley in if their confident in DTR, but neither…[Read more]

The ACC is getting more on a per-team basis, not just more for the conference. But NashvilleUte is correct – it’s due to ACC teams (Clemson, Florida St) having more CFP appearances than remaining Big 12 teams (TCU and Cincy). In a few years they’ll look into again and see if that needs to be rebalanced

I’d guess it’s not as much a risk of trial going sideways as just resource allocation. A plea deal takes SUBSTANTIALLY less time than a trial. If you’re a DA and have limited resources, you take a plea deal sometimes simply to save time and be able to handle your caseload.

This strikes me as one of those cases, as there wasn’t a lot of doubt…[Read more]

The reality is the top tier of college football has been cut in half every 40 years basically since it started. And even from the beginning it was about how many resources they wanted to dedicate.

Football broke into College (later D2) and University (later D1) divisions. And then D2 split into D2 and D3, while D1 split into 1-A (later FBS) and…[Read more]

PFF tends to operate quite differently from the consensus at times. Which can absolutely be useful – nice to get a different perspective instead of just a thousand voices rehashing the same info – but I’d also be careful taking them as representative

Utah isn’t deep at LB anymore – lost a lot of younger guys. But that’s likely not an issue for this season so much as for future seasons. I’d love to add more talent to the room, but it’s probably the spot where youth and eligibility most needs to be prioritized

A few points here

1) Copying the link doesn’t help, since the post can be edited. You’d also need to screenshot

2) He’s purposely left himself enough leeway to avoid it. It’s not “If Utah wins the conference, I will…” or even “If a Pac12 team wins the conference, then…”. It’s “if these projections turn out to be true”. So let’s say Utah…[Read more]

Unfortunately I don’t have data back further than 6 years. And I could give you the year by year data….but then you get into small sample sizes and things get noisy, depending more on specific matchups. Which is why I like to use a rolling 5 year average.

And as to Nebraska, they get attention and discussion by random non-Nebraska fans.…[Read more]

I don’t think a single one of those programs is complaining about what he did there. He built Stanford up…and then they spent about a decade still contending under the guy who followed him. Built the 49ers up, and then left but they’re still doing well. Got Michigan a national championship.

Yeah, he left all of them, but how many Chargers fans…[Read more]