The Miami Ute

Personally, I think that, in some undetermined future, when athletes are considered school employees, a number of schools will cut the cord with organized athletics. I fully expect that to be the case with the high-end academic schools like Cal, Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and many others. What I think will happen is that the academics…[Read more]

Once they’re determined to be employees of individual schools, I would think that’s what’s going to happen. It’s absolute, utter bullshit that you can devote time and resources on a specific player and then have some other school sweep in and scoop the player up at no cost to itself.

A combination of the networks and naked self-interest by players is going to kill college football as we know it. Without any guardrails or ground rules that everyone has to play by, then fans’ entertainment dollars are going to go elsewhere and college football will become a worse version of the XFL.

Reads like an efficiency report for a mediocre employee.

At the point that I’m writing this, the U automatically accepts all students from the Canyons, Davis, Granite and Provo school districts who have a 3.5 GPA or higher at the start of their senior year.

Well, the issue there is that in the NBA there are a multitude of persons who are both smarter and richer than Smith.

I didn’t know Isaac had his own publicist.

Better yet, have the NFL pay for it since it is the organization that receives all of the benefits of free player development. I can’t believe how, in all of this, the NFL gets a free pass. Have each NFL team take a few college teams in its regional location and use them as farm teams in some sort of subsidized league along with the networks.…[Read more]

Rick, that’s what I was intimating. His game tape is so bad that I thought only an FCS or G5 program would offer him. We’ll see what happens in Provo because he’s not unseating Retzlaff as a starter no matter how good he looks in practice.

Like an old girlfriend?

I’m not certain there’s any school out there that can give Rising $1M to just sit on the sidelines. One, he’s experienced but experienced in Utah’s system. Two, he’s already proven multiple times that he’s an extremely fragile QB. That means that he can even get hurt while playing garbage time or in a substitute role. Three, if you give Rising…[Read more]

LOL. you’re such a troll…

I agree. That’s also the reason why I’d be shocked if Rising was back with the team. Obviously, Utah won’t push him out but he’s got to know that there’s little chance that he would get any playing time and that his NIL gig would be over.

I just have to wonder what the decision process is for some of these players. For example, in my estimation, Utah was the last P4 chance for a guy like Huard, who’s already had opportunities and proven to be found wanting. My guess is that Huard goes back to some FCS program in a quest for some automatic playing time.

Which one? Walker Eget or Emmett Brown? San Jose State this season reminded me of FSU in the late 70s in the sense that they used two QBs extensively.

Roy, you have the play the hand you’re dealt. I’m not with the team so I have zero ability to affect the internal dynamics of Utah football. Given that, I can only continue to support the team and hope for the best. I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if next season is a repeat of this one, Whitt will be pushed out no matter his standing…[Read more]

Regarding Rising, those are exactly my thoughts. His leverage is zero. If he’s healthy, or as healthy as he can possibly be, then he’d make a decent veteran backup. However, that’s also dependent on what offense Beck installs. I do hope that you’re correct about Dampier.

If he wants to stay, no problem, but his cut of NIL has to be zero.

This happens all the time in all sports. Neither Rose nor Wilson is a Beck guy. I’m just thinking that when you bring in a new OC, a lot of times both the players and the coordinator are more comfortable starting with a blank slate, meaning the player going somewhere else and the coordinator looking for someone specific to run his system.