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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]

I’m excited to see the defense in action. Can we get pressure with the front 4? Are we good enough in man coverage to bring some more pressure from elsewhere if necessary? Can we bottle-up their running game, and tackle well? I am optimistic that these things will all go better this year than at the start of last season.

Cam Rising was very…[Read more]

I would imagine that certain coaches were not thrilled with the poor tackling and (at times) lack of physicality to start last season. We are gonna do things differently this year, but that comes with a cost.

We have 3 guys who are competing to replace/backup one of the best QBs to ever play at Utah. They all have their strengths and weaknesses (and their recruiting ratings), and none of them are Cam Rising, Tyler Huntley, Bryan Johnson or Alex Smith.
They are all working their a$$s off, and I am stoked to see whichever one the coaches think gives…[Read more]

TDS is letting the B-12 use their vaunted HD truck in exchange for a full share.

Hmm, that looks promising for this year (I have not used it in the past). I see it coming out to $69 per month for the smallest package with the necessary channels.

It looks like the Sling package you would need to to get P12, ESPNs and FS1,2 (Orange+Blue with Sports add on) comes to $66 per month. You can also wait to add the package with…[Read more]

People expect Rose and Johnson to have worked hard during the offseason to gain some experience running the offense (at least on their own with teammates), and to have gotten stronger/faster and all that. I’ve got news for you: Bryson Barnes has been doing that too. If he is QB 2, it’s because he took the job away from two other scholarship D-1…[Read more]

Two things:

1) This the most Utah thing to do. It brings back memories of TD Croshaw and Lance Rice, and that is obviously not good.

2) I really don’t think judging any quarterback on their performance while being thrown into a game as the backup is fair. From Whit’s comments, it sounds like there are some turnover/consistency issues with Rose…[Read more]

I’m really sad about the demise of the PAC, but happy that we landed somewhere reasonable. I am excited to see how this shakes out.

I’m seeing reports that UA. ASU and Utah are still sticking together as a threesome, so hopefully that will help avoid the partial share situation, but who knows?

Listening to Canzano et al., there are rumors that the deal is strongly back-loaded, so after year two, there is a lot more guaranteed money. Who knows though? There has obviously been a lot of made up BS passed off as legit info from informed sources lately.

Most college athletes are not football players, I hope this mess doesn’t screw them…[Read more]