Utah

That’s cool that he has two years remaining. He knew where he was. He knew Utah was going to do everything Utah could to make it so he didn’t see the field again. And that’s ok. He isn’t good enough for Utah. But that doesn’t mean he sucks.

He would be a very, very good G5 QB and a great FCS QB.

Utah Tech would be a great place to be a QB in…[Read more]

Yup. College football is a great example of why unabashed, unregulated society doesn’t work. You need rules. You need regulations. You need unions. All those things make life better for the majority of people. You take away those things and the Alabama’s and Ohio State’s do fine, but everyone else suffers.

I agree. It’s one of two things:

1 – He’s getting some really, really bad advice.
2 – He doesn’t think another year will get him drafted any higher.

I guess it could be a third: He needs the money. But I’d assume that he could pull an NLI deal that was comparable to the NFL minimum.

I hope he goes to a good situation. Him dropping in the…[Read more]

I have to completely agree. College football taps into our tribal instincts. Big time. I don’t think I’d be interested in trying to replicate that with another team. I worked hard at Utah. I stressed and cried and succeeded. There is history for me there.

And to try to replicate that somewhere else…I don’t see it happening.

Yes…and no…

I don’t know if comparing music to a team is the same thing. We don’t have our “local” musicians on tv every week.

I think people want to follow their team. I think that is why college football has been so successful for so long. There never was a team that was out of it.

Think back to pre-BCS. Everyone was in a smaller…[Read more]

I’m excited to go to the stadium. I’ve never been to a NFL game, but I spent many a Saturday in the Linc watching Temple get their asses kicked. It’s fun to sit in those NFL cathedrals.

College football is a great example of why you need regulations in capitalism. Capitalism’s job is to make money. That’s it. It’s not to provide a great product, it’s not to entertain, it’s not get repeat customers. It’s to turn a profit. There is no ethics in capitalism. It has one goal: Make as much money as you can, then move on to the next…[Read more]

That’s a great point. Thanks.

I have it at a 2…and I’m going. It’s hard to get up for a game when we have no QB and half the team is in the transfer portal. We could win, we could lose by 20. Who knows. I don’t know any of the players…it’s weird.

Between shutting down practices and transfers and NIL…this sport is just different.

I think they already do this a lot. At least the schools with money. Have a ton of recruiting coordinators that go through tape and send out texts and letters. They take the tape to the position coaches, “hey, here are the top 50 kids for you.” The position coaches then eval those 50 kids and pick their top ones to recruit. Then then HC comes in…[Read more]

I think you nailed it on the head. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these people running the collectives aren’t the historical “sandwich full of $100’s” guys. They are fans who have never seen/controlled/used this type of money. And because of that, they are just throwing it around.

But then again, the more people I meet with money, the more…[Read more]

My question is this: Why aren’t the distributors of these NIL deals requiring players to sign contracts?

If a player wants 1 mill per year, why not sign them to a three year, 3 million dollar deal, and you get 2.5 of it after you complete your third year?

It’s out of control, and the players will end up being screwed in the long run, why aren’t…[Read more]

This is where I feel bad for this whole shit show. The players will lose this. Utah won’t. The fans won’t. But players at Matthews’ level…they will. A lot will end up without scholarships, degrees, etc.

And that will affect them for decades.

Once again, the unfettered capitalism proves to be a shit show.

What I hate about the left vs right split in this country is the politicians on both sides (but way more on the right, especially lately) won’t allow us to get better.

Is Title IX a good idea? Yup.
Are there parts we can get better at? Yup.

But we can’t do that. We have to scrap all of Title IX because some lefty snowflake came up with the…[Read more]

Fuck BYU.

And, we all thought Cam would be ready to go in fall camp 2023 and we saw how that turned out.

I want Cam back. I’m glad Cam is back. But if someone comes in and outplays Cam…I’m ok with that as well.

What the bowl game does is give you 15 more practices. Those are HUGE. That is an extra spring ball.

And you don’t have your veterans practicing for your bowl. You have all your second and third stringers getting reps, working with coaches, getting better.

If you take away lower bowls, you give the Alabama’s and Ohio State’s a HUGE advantage…[Read more]

This is a tough issue. Part of the reason why the NCAA is so incompetent is because no one will give them the power to do anything. I hate this attitude in our society today.

The NCAA could do a great job if it was funded, if it had power to go through records, if it had the power to get testimonies, if it could actually investigate things.

We…[Read more]

We still have Rose, right?

Honestly, we need to recruit better QB’s. It’s as simple as that. We can’t keep recruiting these kids with super high ceilings and super low floors (Jackson, Johnson, Mack).

Wilson seems like a kid with a super high ceiling but also a high floor. We will have Rising back. And if we still have Rose, then we have a…[Read more]