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This was a setback, for sure, but was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Toga! Toga! Toga!

We are gonna need to scrap, but the opportunity is there to try to climb the mountain again, and I hope we are up to the task. We really do have some talented players in the pipeline, even at QB, and especially on the lines, which bodes well…[Read more]

Yeah, the implementation of things like this are always weird. I support the general idea of Title 9, but some of the impacts were brutal. Many schools had to cut many men’s sports to make the numbers work. I suspect this will have a similar impact.

It sounds like schools that are not current P-5 football members will be left out (at least…[Read more]

All this time Whit and Rising have been playing the long game to fool Dan Lanning. He’ll never see it coming. Or maybe Rising used his NIL money to buy himself a seat in section L.

That play where Vaki plants both feet, comes to a complete stop, then runs around half the USC defense into the endzone, is one of the most outrageous plays I have ever seen from a Utah player. He’s stout enough to play linebacker, but he’s quick like Covey.

Oregon has much better coaching, especially in-game. If they are getting 4+ yards per carry, unlike USC, they will not stop doing that all night long. They will also have a well-thought-out plan to stop Vaki. They will probably not help us win, like USC occasionally does.

That said, if there is a blizzard on Saturday, maybe we pull out…[Read more]

Does Simmons have the authority to fire Grinch?

It would be kinda fun for the whole crowd to be waving WSU flags in solidarity.

My aunt used to say: “Oops, stepped on a duck,” whenever she farted. I might try to work that in somehow.

I would be ecstatic if he returned next year. He has taken Utah to two PAC-12 championships, which is really the pinnacle of Utah football.

It really is decision time for that sort of operation I think. If he doesn’t return this week, there is not much time left this season. I would think playing next season (possibly with Kuithe?) would be…[Read more]

In his PR thing on Monday, Whit specifically mentioned he would like to see the offense take more shots down the field. I would love to see that happen. Weber State seems like a great opportunity to try to really stress that.

He has heard things like that he is being held out to wait for Cam or waiting for conference play. He seems upset by these comments.

Some of us need to take a step back and calm down a bit. We all want Utah to win. We all want the best quarterback on the field, and want every DB to pick off every pass.

We could probably get by with a little…[Read more]

From the UteZone article: “Ja’Quinden Jackson has practiced all week and it would be very surprising if does not play Saturday.”

They also sounded positive about Curry potentially being ready. There is a reason Vincent is not at the top of the depth chart, but he is serviceable, and I would love nothing more than to see him tear up Baylor.

This…[Read more]

Well, Barnesjohnson scored more than enough points, and had zero turnovers, so I’m on board.

Who knows how good Florida really is, but they sure have some athletes. Our ability to stop their running backs was impressive.

If game day comes to town, we should all bring WSU flags, or RIP signs or something.

There were a lot of “hurries” last year that could have been sacks with a little more patience, and/or better tackling. Hopefully that will go better this year.

Also, if the receivers/tight-ends could bail out Barnes as much as possible by having velcro hands, and getting open regularly, that would be great.

I’m putting on my red goggles: Barnes is a Heisman candidate until proven otherwise, and he does have a perfect record as a starter.

Seriously though, I think he might play pretty well tomorrow night. If the Oline plays well, we run the ball well, and receivers get open, I think Barns will hold up his end of the deal. We just need to score 1…[Read more]

Here is a meta-paper on the issue: paper link

I had always heard that the “fly-in fly-out” strategy was second best to proper long term acclimation (i.e. better than the intermediate strategy of showing up a day or two before), but apparently there is not really much data to back this up.

High elevation does make for a solid home-field…[Read more]

This is not the Wyoming football message board.

That seems reasonable. Two things stuck out at me:

1) I thought coaches were talking about Spencer Fano potentially starting at left tackle (starting him off backing up the right side would seem to make more sense though).

2) I would expect to see more of TE #2 than WR #3, and I’m guessing that will be Miki Suguturaga in a Logan Kendall sort…[Read more]