Utah Jr.

And one reason why Utah has not struggled vs mobile QB’s lately is because they play a lot more zone concepts. This man up and blitz the extra guys Utah defense is not what Scalley runs.

What gives me the most hope for Scalley taking over for Whitt is this is Scalley’s defense, not Whitt’s. While it has its origins in Whitt’s man up defense, it…[Read more]

I watched a TON of college football this weekend. I have teenage boys and so we watch. The Big 10 and SEC have some great teams. The Big 12…Utah is just better than everyone else. Maybe Kansas is really good as well…but everyone else is just…meh.

I think the Big 12 title game will be Kansas and Utah and both teams will have one loss at…[Read more]

SMU is the same team they were last year and they won 11 games last year. It was the first game of the year. There might have been some “we are better and don’t need to show up” for SMU last game.

I think SMU will come out looking for blood and it could get ugly for BYU.

Oh man. What a question. I grew up with my mom and she moved…a lot. I lived in Florida, South Carolina, Ohio, Missouri…I spent the most time in Florida and Ohio. So, childhood teams:

CFB: Never a real fan of any Florida school, I just knew I hated those smug, rich private school assholes in Miami. We moved to Ohio in third grade-ish and I…[Read more]

Here’s the thing:

He may have had a heart attack…Nowadays, depending on the attack, the severity, the health of the patient and time from attack to seeing a doctor…

Sometimes it ends up being pretty routine. There are sometimes, they monitor you for a few hours, tell you to go home and get back to normal life.

I hope that’s the case for…[Read more]

I know!!! We move to the Big 12 and suddenly everyone in the world thinks we’ve never played against talented players before. “Oh, Utah will shocked by how good these players are!”

Nah, we played against them every week in the PAC-12. I don’t remember the exact numbers, but last year alone we played against over 10 first or second round draft…[Read more]

Rising always checks down to the TE. Remember the INT he threw to a Kincaid covered by 4 people? It is who he is.

I want Utah to go up big vs Baylor and USU so we can see more of Wilson. I’m pumped for him. He looked incredible last night. I want game experience for him. I’d like for him to get a series or two with the starters.

Yes, he should have taken the easy throw. BUT the WR was open. Wilson under threw it. If he throws it into the corner it’s a TD or an incompletion. But the WR was open, Wilson’s read wasn’t wrong, he just attempted a hard throw and missed.

Like you, I’d prefer he throw it underneath, but mentally, what he did was ok. He had a WR open in the end…[Read more]

Agree that Lohner was open in the flat, but the WR was open in the end zone as well. He just under threw it.

That’s cool.

What I’d like to see it evolve to is the lights going down, the music starting, no talking, a big 22 flash on the board, the crowd goes wild (maybe phone lights on as the stadium will be dark) as the music builds and then the family on three part. Just absolute noise and craziness started by a slow build of the orchestra.

He’s going to be a great QB and last night showed that.

That second INT…the WR was open, Wilson made a bad throw. That’s it. He makes a better throw and he’s 8/11 with 2 TD’s and over 100 yards passing.

He was a freaking baller last night and anyone who says otherwise…lacks knowledge on QB play. He made the right reads, he made strong…[Read more]

I disagree about QB1 to QB2.

Wilson played great. 7/11 with 74 yards, 7 ypc, and a beautiful back shoulder throw for a TD. I’m getting hard remembering it.

He did have two INT’s. The first one…the coaches screwed him over, which I bet they did on purpose to see how he responded. 3rd and 15, his third college football play ever. I’m ok with…[Read more]

Was it a dumb throw? Absolutely. If he had thrown it to the back corner instead of short, it was a TD. So, while not the smartest throw, he wasn’t throwing it into a quadruple covered receiver. The guy was open. It was a hard throw. He tried it and failed.

This is why you play super talented guys vs a school like SUU. So they can learn that this…[Read more]

Is there value when you look at it logically?

Nope.

But when big time schools schedule games like this, you need to as well. Football is too hard. You can’t play 10+ P4 games a year, win 10+ games and win the playoffs.

Look, if Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Ohio State won’t play 10 P4 games a year, then you sure as hell shouldn’t. You…[Read more]

Ted Lasso is the Bryce Harper of the board. Panders to us big time, but still brings it with quality posts. I want to wish BYU luck…but I really just can’t.

But I really appreciate the sentiment from you.

Our DL is so good. And our LB’s are the best we’ve ever had. Bishop is a step down, but I think overall our secondary will be better this year.

If it’s on ESPN or ABC, your ESPN+ subscription won’t work. You need a Youtube tv/Fubo/Sling/Cable subscription to access ESPN and over the air antennae to get ABC.

We won 8 games last year, don’t recruit in the teens, didn’t have a monster recruiting class and are still ranked #12/13.

We are one of the most ranked teams in the CFP.

We absolutely have a brand and it’s this: “We are gonna kick your ass. But it will be fun. But we are still gonna kick it or go down trying.”

It’s beautiful.

The biggest difference is that in the PAC-12, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Cal, Stanford were all bigger brands than us.

Who is a bigger brand in the Big 12? Maybe Colorado?

So I’d bet we’d have a lot more games on the major networks in this conference, especially if we are ranked.

I don’t think we lose a game after the Arizona week. And Oklahoma State doesn’t scare me at all. Not in the slightest. They have no QB and they want to run the ball. Their QB turns the ball over a lot when they can’t run. If OSU turns the ball over and we get some quick scores with Rising and his receivers…

This game could get ugly fast.

I…[Read more]