ProudUte

Mentioned the tragic situation at Virginia.  Also mentioned the fan who lost his life at the game Saturday.  Football is not as important as these kinds of things.
Had a slow start on Saturday, but that doesn’t matter because we scored 6 of our last 7 drives.
The defense played excellently and only allowed Stanford less than 200 yards.
The…[Read more]

UW was able to beat Oregon because of their prolific passing attack.  Penix is an excellent QB that leads the nation in passing yards.  Oregon is one of the worst-ranked passing defenses.  Penix was able to exploit Oregon’s weakness.
Utah does not have the passing offense that UW has.  However, we have a better running game.  If Tavion is playing…[Read more]

ESPN shows the game on Friday.  Utah’s website shows Saturday.

This game appears to be a good matchup with two evenly-matched teams.  Here are the numbers.
Oregon averages 42.7 points per game and Utah 39.5.
Oregon gives up 27.4 points per game and Utah 20.
Utah averages 65 fewer yards per game on offense than Oregon, but we give up 70 yards fewer per game.
We both have 8-2 records with one conference…[Read more]

We are ranked 10th behind Alabama and Clemson.  USC is now 6th.  Oregon dropped to 13th and UCLA to 16th.  UW is now 15th.
We are the third-highest two-loss team behind LSU and Alabama.  (not bad)
I believe we are getting a lot of respect in the polls.
 
 
 

I saw that Glover was dressed last night and even got in the game (no runs).  However, I did not see Jackson.  I hope his injury is not too bad.  We could really use him.  It appears that Tavion is back physically and mentally.  But, we need some depth.  Bernard does not appear to be 100%.
Also, it appears from this quote that Tavion will not be…[Read more]

Oregon was the last hope for this season.  It’s amazing that in a dozen years of PAC12 football, no one team has gone undefeated in conference play.  It shows how difficult it is to be at your best for nine weeks of conference games.  Too bad our Utes blew that OSU game last season.
 

BYU fans on CB like to post anything they can that is anti-Utah when their football team is struggling.  They will attack our academic programs, smaller stadium, cheerleaders, mascot, or anything else University of Utah related.  My favorite was this post about Whittingham this morning.  You can tell when their football team is not playing well -…[Read more]

I think that first quarter, we looked like we were looking forward to Oregon assuming we could just beat Stanford.  The second half was a thing of beauty.
I thought UW could give Oregon a game, but I never thought AZ would upset UCLA.

1. Rising closer to 100%.  I would like him to get back into the groove and regain his confidence.  Then, I would like to see him sit the entire second half.
2. Tavion back to the Tavion we know he can be.
3. A healthy Jackson who gets 5-10 runs.
4. Kincaid plays, even if he is just a decoy.  We need him going forward.
5. The defense gains…[Read more]

Get out of the tailgate early tonight and be in the stadium 15 minutes early  We need a full house when they introduce the seniors.  These are the guys who won the PAC12 championship and took us to a Rose Bowl.  They deserve an amazing sendoff!!!
Go Utes!!!
 

Just because he can kick it into the endzone.  I don’t know anything about his ability to kick field goals.
Lehi up 35-0 at the half in the 5A semifinals.

His knee keeps improving.  He wasn’t wearing a brace today.
The knee was on his mind when he played against AZ.  However, he does not want to make any excuses.
With it being wet on Saturday, they wanted to get the run game going.  12 guys carried the ball last week.
Nate Johnson is the (self-proclaimed) fastest guy on the team.  He also has a…[Read more]

We beat LIU 89-48.  I have no idea what that tells us about our basketball team, but it was a win to start the season.  I hope we win at least 16 games this season.  I would like to see us end up in about 6th place in the conference.  All of this would show improvement.  It will take a few years to get our basketball program back to where it was…[Read more]

Honestly, I am not worried about this game.  Stanford’s football program is in shambles.  Maybe this is what bothers me.  We have a very important game coming up on the 19th.  It is sandwiched in between games with the two worst teams (by record) in the conference.  I think this is the definition of a “trap” game.
However, if we have the RBs to…[Read more]

Sorry that I am late with this.  I got one last round of golf in today.
We will be honoring seniors and some underclassmen this Saturday.  He would not say which underclassmen would come out.   He did say that it may be about 8 players.
We play well in RES because of the fans.
Van Fillinger had a season-ending (lower-leg) injury.
We have used…[Read more]

However, I got multiple thumbs-down votes when I questioned his effectiveness last night.  That is fine because everyone has their own opinion.  I just want everyone to be clear, that I would not trade Cam for any other QB in the nation.
That being said, he was not at his best last night.  It is probably because of a variety of reasons. i.e.,…[Read more]

We did what we needed to do to win big but the injuries really concern me.  Cam is not effective with that brace on.
I was thrilled with Johnson and Jackson.  But, sad to see Jackson injured.  Has anyone heard how he is doing?  Also, worried about Glover’s injury and Bernard is not 100%.  The defense played much better in the second half.
So,…[Read more]

Rising? Kincaid? Thomas? Bernard?

Since we are playing the Wildcats this weekend – I considered which games against Arizona were the best and the worst.
The Best
In 1972, we played Arizona at home on our newly installed astroturf.  We played poorly for three quarters and trailed the Wildcats 27-0 going into the 4th.  I wanted to leave the game.  However, I was talked into…[Read more]