The Miami Ute

“Teams are gonna be shakin’ now that we have buh-JAKE-ee-an calling plays!”

sounds more like the old joke where the smartest person from place A moved to place B and lowered the IQ for both places.

I agree that mediocre is a step up from the last 3 weeks. I’m not sure it’s the monumental step that some want it to be so I will remain cautiously optimistic knowing that there is very little anyone can do in the short-term…[Read more]

In the middle of a major coaching change you want to discuss why a different team than Utah should be unhappy if they get snubbed for another team not named Utah?

we’re supposed to overlook anything that could be construed as a negative. BEST HIRE EVER is apparently the only acceptable response. Amazing how quick this went from worst offense in 40 years to all of the problems have been solved with a single announcement.

so the Northwestern Bio is wrong. It appears they are only referring to the schools he coached at before his Northwestern stint which did not match up with his previous success.

Ludwig did NOTHING to build around Wilson’s strengths and to install confidence. He never adjusted to blitzes up the middle. His red zone was anemic beyond comprehension. We somehow REGRESSED on offense after the bye week. I hate just ripping someone but it was embarrassing. And ever player from the offense to defense felt it. When you’re making 2…[Read more]

Which football coaching 101. Blows my mind how incompetent the Lud was. In Baja Blast we trust.

For what it is, I’m optimistic. He was quality control and a quarterback coach in the NFL for about 7 years. He’s with Isaac on the sidelines after every possession. He’s a high functioning brain. I’ll take it.

He was also with the Bears, four years with Buccaneers. If nothing else he can be a functioning, competent 🧠 at OC for the remainder of the season.

I wish my last name was Bajakian actually. I’d go by Baja, Baja Blast.

your math doesn’t work. he spent 4 years at Northwestern and never averaged higher that 24.7 points or 360.9 yards in a season. You can’t have 7 of 9 be at your higher values. Were you looking at the defense averages for those years?

Yeah but at Northwestern he was ass.

Whitt’s in charge of his own legacy. There isn’t anything any of us can say that will tarnish it. He built it up by winning games and it will only be diminished if he stays in the job but doesn’t keep producing at the level he has made everyone accustomed to.

Well, I want to blame the coach that didn’t have someone already in place so that the true freshman QB was not needed but apparently he’s finally left the building. He didn’t empty the trash from under the kitchen sink before leaving though so someone else has to deal with the stink, even if they didn’t make the mess.

When has Northwestern averaged 30 ppg?

We saw his offense in the bowl game last year and I don’t remember being envious. Pretty much the only difference from what Utah was running was not having Barnes at QB.

Agree. If this was an offseason hire, the first thing I would do is look at what his offenses have done and post it for all to interpret however they chose. When did information become a bad thing?

He was the OC for a lot of bad Northwestern offenses. And if the rest of this season is an audition for the 2025 OC job, it will be very relevant…[Read more]