UteThunder

I haven’t visited that cesspool since late July or early August. The vitriol and hate at that place was(and I would assume still is) toxic.

I’m very grateful to have UteHub. 

How many times had Urban Meyer done that before we hired him? Whittingham? Zero and Zero. What a couple of bad hires they turned out to be.

All conference champions are NOT guaranteed spots in the NCAA tournament(aside from the Ivy League). There are conference champs who get left out of the NCAA tournament all the time. It is the teams who win their conference tournament who are guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament. And because of that, we routinely see teams who were only good…[Read more]

If we didn’t have so many other recent examples of first year OCs who had to deal with inexperience, injuries, difference in coaching, etc. then I would be inclined to agree with you. Schramm, A-Rod, Chow, BJ, DC, Hard-Rod all put offenses on the field that were comparable to, or better in some ways, than Taylor’s offense. Interestingly, other…[Read more]

BYU returned more starters than we did, the game was in Provo, and we were extremely fortunate to pull out the last second win in 2016. I figured with all of the talent we lost and them having more experienced coaches and players than the year before that they would get the win. As it turned out, we put ourselves in a position where they had the…[Read more]

I expected 7-5 but thought 6-6 was a likely outcome. So I guess you could say my expectations were met.

However . . .

After starting the season 4-0 with a win over BYU(a game I had us losing), of course my expectations went up. And then looking at each individual game we lost, there were at least 3 games where the expectation changed from a loss…[Read more]

Utah?

Nice edit.

I know that is what it looks like, but this is commonplace in coaching. Instead of risk losing an assistant, you give them a token title that doesn’t really mean anything but it justifies giving them a raise and the assistant sticks around. 

In this case, I’m sure Whit was worried that a flatout demotion from Co-OC back to OL coach would make…[Read more]

Looking at it from a 5 year perspective . . . 

One 6 to 7 win season every 5 years(20%). 

Two 8 to 9 win seasons every 5 years(40%).

Two 10+ win seasons where we win the division and/or conference at least once(40%).

Using the past 3 seasons, we have the two 9 win seasons and one of the 10+ win seasons. I expected 7-5 this year and we appear…[Read more]

How has Williams regressed? More like, how has he not regressed?

Completion percentage(53.1 to 50), yards/attempt(7.07 to 6.36), TD:INT ratio(1.9:1 to 1:2), and QB rating(121.0 to 102.2) are all worse this year compared to last.

I also don’t recall Williams abandoning a perfectly good pocket over and over again last year, though maybe I am just…[Read more]

Sorry, but you are reading way too much into my question. I’m genuinely curious why we are recruiting a pocket passer when I’ve heard over and over for the last two months that Huntley’s ability to run the football was a better fit for Taylor’s offense.

At no point did I imply that the coaches don’t know what they are doing. If anything, I…[Read more]