[Uteanooga]

Good dude. Wish him the best.

[Uteanooga]

This is insanity. It makes perfect sense!

[Uteanooga]

Utes for the win:
-Run the ball. Bernard is a quality back.
-Make timely pass completions to Kuithe and Singer.
-Dominant D keeps the score low.
-Enjoy Zoob tears.

There it is!

This is why I can’t bet on Ute games. I am simply unable to separate ration from emotion.

[Uteanooga]

I think the rankings are about right. Boise played #1 Oregon very well losing by only 3 points on the road- about as well as Ohio St. did. The Zoobs are ranked in the same range as 1-loss Tennessee and Notre Dame- who would bet on the Zoobs to beat either of them? Not me thank you.

The bottom line is that the Zoobs play in a 2nd tier conference and still control their own destiny. If they win out they are in the playoff. They are ranked about right and if you take NIL out of the equation, college football is more fair than it has ever been.

2nd place B12 teams are going to be on the bubble for a 12-team playoff every year. Who would argue that on any given year, the 2nd place B12 team is a top-10 team in the nation. Almost no one. So that team being on the bubble is about right.

The Zoobs are having a banner year and if they remain undefeated will pocket a legitimate national championship. I wouldn’t hold my breath but would love to be in their place.

The fact that we suck this year makes it painful but that is how the cookie crumbles.

[Uteanooga]

Obviously Whitt’s fault. He has shown neither ability nor desire to adapt to the new game. Now he has screwed the Gators.

[Uteanooga]

I love how many dudes here can read Whitt’s mind

[Uteanooga]

You are right Charlie.

Ah Rick Majerus- it took us a few years to get back to elite basketball. Oh yeah, we are still waiting and Maj left 20 years ago. I arrived to the NIT game vs Iowa a few minutes late and they gave our whole extended family tiks for free because the Hunty was empty. Someone in my family was excited to see Caitlyn Clark play and was a little disappointed to see dudes out there. But it was a lot of fun and the price was right. Nothing says elite postseason basketball like an empty arena and free tiks. I made it onto the Jumbotron for crowd dancing!

As for football, Utah had been punching above its weight for a long time. No one outside of Utah thinks that Utah should be a blue-blood program. Utah is a small state with a fan base split between two relatively equivalent schools (sorry to point out the obvious but the Zoobs exist). Utah has virtually no natural advantage over our fellow 4 corner schools and very recently had a significant disadvantage as they were in elite conferences while we were in the MWC.

Then came PACmas and the relatively painful journey of improvement. Lots of genius fans called for Whitt’s firing during the back-to-back 5-7 years as we remember. He was an idiot and did not even want a good offense! But the university persevered and then Whitt became somewhat less stupid as the team won more games.

Then Whitt hired his old buddy Andy Ludwig again and the two of them became geniuses together winning the PAC 12 in back-to-back seasons. Success at previously unimaginable levels was amazing and thank goodness Whitt didn’t want to take the BYU job back in the day. Just imagine!

Then Whitt and Ludwig became idiots again and didn’t even want a good offense or a good QB any more. Thank goodness Ludwig left- the moron. There is no way the team could win anything with him making stupid decisions. Now we just need to get rid of the bumbling Whitt and we will be the best again because that is the natural order. We rule this truck-stop conference!

Do I have the story right?

[Uteanooga]

Would Witt leaving help NIL funding- no.

Would Witt leaving make recruiting to Utah easier- no, it has always been hard.

Would Witt leaving put Utah into a better conference- no.

Would Witt leaving increase Utah’s athletic budget- no.

Is Utah’s next coach going to be better than Whitt- probably not given that Whitt has been Utah’s best coach, we will likely see regression towards the mean.

Will Utah win more games without Whitt than with him- regression towards the mean says probably not. Whitt has won a lot of games.

That is a lot of no and a little probably not. P12 championship game 4 out of 5 years and suddenly he has no idea of what he is doing. He may well be tired of listening to you wankers and move on.

[Uteanooga]

That is plausible. Retzlaff delivers some picks and the Utes are capable. Time for our yearly pick six!

[Uteanooga]

I guess that would be this 5* player-

https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/dj-lagway-281305?view=pv

It would be something to have the top-rated-dual-QB prospect sitting the bench as QB3.

It is going to be awesome having these players on our bench after the bum Whittingham leaves.

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