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Let’s just go full Wisconsin/Stanford/Iowa. This might be unpopular because it’s the opposite of flashy, but hear me and the caffeine in my system out: great offensive line, with a fullback (ideally from a dairy farm in Idaho or Iowa, wrestling background is a bonus), two tight ends with one being a glorified receiver, and we just live in 2nd and 5 and 8 minute drives.

This sounds like 2015 because it essentially is, but lately we seem to be better at keeping the cap on “Why is Marquise Lee/N’Keal Harry/Michael Pittman 35 yards downfield and unsupervised?” plays, and hopefully NIL can keep guys in-state to start as an underclassman instead of going to the SEC to ride the bench for those same years.

You will be paying off your mortgage by betting the under, but that’s because scoring 35/game from either team would require a fifth quarter. Just 200 yards rushing and passing with the opposing teams training staff going for about the same yards to and from the ice bath on Sundays.

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Of all the ways for the season to be easier for Utah, this one sucks the most. I am very much not a lawyer, and I’ve been trying to avoid touching this with a ten foot pole, but both outcomes appear to suck quite a bit.

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In the era of Ryan Smith vs Phil Knight for the wunderkind, all we can really do is buy a jersey from the team store and make the occasional donation.

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In the era of Ryan Smith vs Phil Knight for the wunderkind, all we can really do is buy a jersey from the team store and make the occasional donation.

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He’s got quite the offer list. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him crack the rotation sooner rather than later.

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UCLA defensive line seems like it’ll be mostly new faces, but talented new faces. Couple that with the Nico acquisition and all of a sudden the first game of the year might tell us a lot about where positions really stand.

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I think it’s important to know what you can influence versus what you cant influence. At least IMO. Show up with friends and family, have a good time, enjoy the food, etc. Whoever you showed up as won’t be changed following the game because of the outcome. The transfer portal doesn’t help, but even before the current era it isn’t like Gionni Paul or Eric Weddle could’ve stayed forever.

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Ainge and Zanik have done the equivalent of blowing off their foot with a shotgun because there was an annual 14% chance it would grow back by 2030.

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The BIG12 is a snowglobe of unpredictability after last year. My two silver linings are: if you’re going to pick positions to return besides QB, the entire offensive line and the defensive captain are a pretty good place to start, and the offense will have some consistency throughout the spring to fall in practice. Imagine this:

Cam is good through the offseason
Cam is hurt, Isaac is up
Cam is back
Cam is gone
Isaac performs about as well as an 18 year old in front of 60,000 people.
Brandon Rose is up
Brandon Rose is down
(Sam Huard is also down)
Isaac is back
Isaac is benched
Now it’s Bottari

Seems like it would be hard on the offense.

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Take this with an enormous grain of salt, as I have zero insider knowledge, but Lud’s system seemed to either work exceptionally well (averages of 35+ ppg in the two healthy Rising years) or not at all. Zach Wilson saying Utahs offense was resembling that of an NFL offense might have hinted at the playbooks being the size of a small car. Not great for the portal era.

Defense should be fine. Scalley laid an egg against Colorado, but that was about it unless there’s another camo jersey game that trauma has scrubbed from my memory. The inexperience and new faces do worry me, but the sliver of hope I have is that Lander and the safety group have been the ones making adjustments in the past; these are not inexperienced groups. Corner seems to have a focus on size and height, which isn’t meaningful in itself, but maybe something that can help once we start the season.

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