The Miami Ute

Yes, I’m a big fan of the Kiltlifters but not many people make it. Are you getting 4 Peaks? Or maybe the Pike’s version out of Washington. Both are much smoother than an IPA, in my opinion, without the fruitiness of a Hefeweizen. Alaskan Amber was my go to about 20 years ago and 4 Peaks has been a nice next step.

Sure but you have to play with what you’ve got, just like your opponent. If’s won’t change the last 6 results and will have no effect on the next 6. So the only thing that sounds asinine to me is playing the what-if game.

What if Rising was fully healthy last night. What if ASU wasn’t missing two defensive starters the first half along with…[Read more]

Tanuvasa. O’Toole. Dumani. Reid. Fotu. Keenan Johnson.

“We couldn’t do diddly poo offensively.” Another Mora that fits us.

“PLAYOFFS!? DON’T TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS! ARE YOU YOU KIDDING ME? PLAYOFFS?! I’M JUST HOPING WE CAN WIN ANOTHER GAME!”

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Anyone notice that Vegas’s offense hasn’t missed a beat the last two games? Imagine having a fully qualified backup who was ready to take over if the starter got injured or was otherwise unavailable for any reason. I guess that can only happen at deep pocketed universities like Texas or UNLV.

I’d rate the possibility of Odom considering Utah about a 3 out of 10. He’s going to get an SEC/B1G offer after this season now that the stink of how his tenure ended at Missouri is gone. Both UNLV and Missouri are historically tough places to win so he should get a pretty look.

The offense Odom ran with Drew Locke (Heupel as OC) seemed pretty…[Read more]

oh, and welcome to the board. I enjoyed our conversations at Block U

It’s the same team that started the year. There were just 3 really bad opponents to make it seem better than it was. Oklahoma State is interesting for comparison though because you have two long-tenured coaches who seem to have lost the narrative at exactly the same time.

At this point, I’m trying to decide if two things are true…[Read more]

If you really wanted him, the time to get Cignetti was after last season. He’s not moving from Indiana until he gets offered one of the top 10 jobs like DeBoer did when he moved on from Washington.

I realize there haven’t been a lot of hiring opportunities since I started being a Utah fan in 1988 but what you need to try to replicate is the…[Read more]

2024 Utah isn’t even in the same conversation as 2024 Florida State when it comes to fan disappointment.

Fano is struggling with losing contain. I think Barton got blamed for a couple of his because the numbers look so similar. That 12 yard run by Leavitt to the left side in the first half was all on Fano taking too direct an angle to the QB.

Scalley’s D is missing two very important elements that he relies on almost to a fault. He doesn’t have an eraser at ILB in the mold of Lloyd, C. Barton, Bernard or Hansen (-on?). Reid is a step up from what we saw last night but he is not that caliber.

He also doesn’t have a safety who can play in the box or at the LOS. Ritchie looked like he…[Read more]

You and I are good Sal, at least from my point of view, and always have been. The title of the thread gave me the opportunity to say something I’ve wanted to for a long time and I went after it with both barrels.

I’m a contrarian by nature and don’t have an ego when it comes to my opinions being challenged. You may not change my mind but I…[Read more]

Harlan is supposedly a guy that gets booster donations. While I think he has done well with NLI transition. Basketball is completely held back by him. Smith was a horrible hire.

I have seen many people unsatisfied with Scalley. I am like who trust Harlan to make a hire? I think aiming for “Whitt Jr” is 100% the best decision until we find an AD.

Definitely feels like the stranglehold JoePa had over Penn State.

How have Harlan’s other hires gone? I only follow Utah football and gymnastics and he did a terrible job by keeping Farden as long as he did.

It probably came off as more flippant than intended but the concept is sound. It’s more about making sure that all the pieces are in place for a seamless transition as quickly as possible so that you don’t allow an untenable situation to continue. I’m not there with Whitt and have never called for him to go but if the decision is that he needs…[Read more]

Wanting and being capable to
Play are different things. Well paid coaches need to make those tough decisions. There is no way of knowing if Wilson, Rose or Huard would have done better.

Gundy dumped his QB against Utah. Second guy sucked and then he put his guy back in who made it a game.

Rising is at a point though where mental toughness…[Read more]

When the local media and Ute-centric reporters are openly making fun of the “game time decision”, you know you’ve lost the thread.