The Miami Ute

Medically, theoretically and hypothetically cleared by surgeons. Hopefully back by UCLA.

Pretty sure Woods arrived at Utah with a partially torn ACL. And played his final game at Idaho on the injured knee but didn’t know the extent yet. Anyway injuries & Utah football 🤝 Sigh

For me, the best attribute a HS RB can have is the ability to avoid contact. Any truly talented RB can shrug off HS tacklers but kids whose whole game is based on running through someone don’t tend to go very far when they have to move up to defenders with equal skill.

But show me a mini Barry Sanders who never allows anyone to get a clean shot…[Read more]

He would have first been eligible for the draft after the 2022 season. If his promise showed out to be Booker level, he’d have been gone then. If he was still on the team long enough to finish out his eligibility we’d probably be calling him Khalil Tate jr. Incredible introduction that couldn’t be sustained

John White IV was also a transfer so you can go back to the beginning of P5 play. Probably even farther. Didn’t Matt Asiata go JC first?

The other part of recruiting rankings is they don’t look at what is around the player being evaluated. Tuttle is a perfect example since he got to throw to a 1st round pick (Olave). They were both rated 4 stars but if you did a look back ranking, Olave should have been a 5 star catching passes from a 3 star.

Huard was in an air raid system, had…[Read more]

wrong Huard. Brock is the uncle, Damon is Sam’s dad. And both made it to the league which I value more than whether they come up with enough snappy comments to fill a 3.5 hour broadcast window.

Yeah, I don’t know how you pick just one moment. For a guy who doesn’t “look” like a QB, and doesn’t have one defining skill that sets him apart, the entirety of his career has been one where he’s exceeded expectations. In that, he is the epitomy of Utah football.

When he’s all padded up, he looks like an undersized nose tackle. He’s got that…[Read more]

I know I’ve said that he doesn’t seem to want a different job but I’ve never seen anything official one way or another. He certainly hasn’t acted like he wants advancement as I’ve also never heard about him interviewing elsewhere.

He and Scalley could have a handshake agreement that he moves up to DC when Scalley moves up but if they do it…[Read more]

At this point, I wouldn’t take Whitt’s opinion on scrambled eggs v. sunny side up with any amount of credibility.

Was it before OSU that he said one QB would take all the snaps one day and the other the next? Maybe it was Arizona. Either way, that stood out as weird at the time. If both QB’s are feeding from the same trough, swapping them out…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s a hard one that we all deal with. If I had made ___ decision differently.,, The reality though is that we make the decisions we truly wanted to in most occasions so it’s not the decision that would have to change but the mindset of the person making the decision. Because I’m pretty sure that Rising would still try to come back…[Read more]

If he wants to go elsewhere and continue his career I fully support it. But he can’t hold the Utah program hostage anymore, even if he is the best option when he’s at the top of his game because there is no guarantee that he can reach that level again.

It is in everyone’s best interest that he get healthy and moves on with his life however he…[Read more]

Everything being said in this thread is exactly what we all said after Arizona and during the bye week.

I feel bad for him because I don’t wish injury on anyone. But Rising wasn’t going to play for free when the market dictates that starting QB’s at P4 schools start at a million per.

No one forced Rising to take any NIL. If he truly wanted to play for free, he would have. And if this was 2018 rules, he would have played for free. But not…[Read more]

I think the point is that pairing a healthy Jackson with a healthy Bernard would have solved a lot of the short yardage and driving finishing issues the team has struggled with, no matter who was the QB. It’s only speculation but it wouldn’t take much to provide more than Stanley/Mitchell/Vincent have.

AL gets paid so much money just to drive our entire offensive into the Ludwig Landfill.

Or the Charlie Vincent wildcat in first red zone trip with a maimed Cam lined out as a receiver.

yeppers. I just need to get you to come around on the true benefit of unbridled capitalism and my work will be done. It’s a shame it took the last 3 weeks of Utah football to get us to this point. hee-hee

wait, you didn’t think Rising was a legitimate threat to catch the ball on that play? surely you cannot be suggesting that he was just going to stand there and be anything more than a decoy. because I was sold that the intent was for him to make a diving play in the corner of the end zone. unfortunately, ASU sniffed it out and Kuithe had to…[Read more]