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OnlyU lied to us about the O-line.

It’s a small stadium on a Friday night, in a few states away. Not sure why you expected a lot of Ute fans. Students just got back on campus for OSU too.

Hopefully one of the three freshman RB’s can make a name for themselves.

Hopefully the freshman RB’s play. Don’t want to see any walk-ons.

Barnes is no good. NJ has more zip on his slants, is faster and more elusive, and Barnes doesn’t keep his eyes downfield. When he faces the slightest bit of pressure, he just tucks the ball and tries to run. NJ is sorta doing the opposite though. There are times when NJ should just tuck the ball and run full speed, but he is keeping his eyes d…[Read more]

His mom posted something interesting on twitter. Some guy said something like “he will be out 6 weeks due to a lacerated liver and won’t be back until the bye” and she responded with “hmmm 🤔”.

Guessing he’s just on the scout team though.

How was Johnson primed for success? We were extremely conservative during Weber State. Against UCLA, our O-line played bad, UCLA has a great D-line with 2 amazing edge rushers, and he only had 50% of the QB1 reps. But go off on how he was primed for success.

If he’s not going to play, he needs to make the decision to give it up already. Can’t be half in and half out. Whitt needs to give him an ultimatum after this game. The people who were against a transfer QB might eat the biggest crow in Utah football history.

Nah, don’t you know that it’s better to completely gamble your season on a guy returning from an ACL tear in 7-8 months?

Utah is making their case for the B1G on the field. We are a better version of Iowa.

This is so pathetic lol

Correct, it’s a difficult position to develop, but it still seems strange to not have a dedicated QB coach. The most important position on the field and we don’t have a specific coach just for that.

So because fans had completely unrealistic expectations of NJ, he can’t be the future QB? Again, this just sounds like people who are taking out their anger on NJ for the offensive struggles, rather than the coaching staff.

As I have already said, NJ has barely played the position. He only played it during his Junior and Senior years, and I b…[Read more]

This is literally untrue with Auburn…

In 2017, heading into conference championship week, Auburn was ranked NUMBER TWO at 10-2. They lost 28-7 against UGA in a rematch and then dropped 5 spots. Had they won against UGA again, they would have gotten into the playoffs as a 2-loss team, probably as the 2-seed still.

Definitely have had some luck this season, but I like to think of it as the bad luck from the injuries being good luck for us on the field. To me, it’s so strange that many UF, Baylor, and UCLA fans all claim that they are the better team, that just had bad luck on the field. I would be glad to have neutral on the field luck in exchange for b…[Read more]

This is exactly how I feel about Whitt. Trying to dissect his mind should be a U of U college course.

As for the style points, this is true and it’s one of the reasons why many metrics and predictive models are wrong, and some can be drastically wrong. They don’t factor in injuries, garbage time, style points, and many other things. If we wan…[Read more]

This is part of the reason I’m so confused that people have turned on NJ so fast. He barely played QB in High School, and he barely has any experience playing QB in CFB. His first start against a P5 team was against a UCLA team with TWO borderline elite edge rushers. Look, I’m not a QB scout or coach, but it seems mind boggling that people hav…[Read more]

The problem with this line of thought is that Cam isn’t the only player on this team. He’s not the only one with NFL aspirations. How about Vele and Pittman who are in their last year of CFB? Don’t they deserve the best chance at showing what they can do? At the moment, the best guaranteed chance of that is Nate getting 100% of the reps, not 50. H…[Read more]

Depends on how close your losses were, how good your wins are, and if you win the CCG, along with maybe some injury context. Let’s say Utah loses to OSU (no Cam Rising or Kuithe), and UW, but beats USC and Oregon. Then we rematch an 11-1 UW team in the CCG, and beat them. An 11-2 Utah team with close losses to OSU without Rising on a Friday n…[Read more]