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  • They are obviously still friends and any time I have heard Kyle talk about Kalani as the HC at BYU he mentions something along the lines of ‘Kalani is a great coach and they are going to win a lot of games while he is there.’ Maybe he believes that or maybe it is just PC coach speak. I don’t know.
    With how poorly BYU performed last year, and how…[Read more]

  • Other than Utah’s games, which annual Pac-12 matchups do you always try to watch?
    I like watching just about any Pac-12 matchup, but there are 5 that I go out of my way to try and watch:
    Colorado vs CSU – I’ve been watching this game since the formation of the MWC.
    USC vs UCLA – Intense rivalry in sunny SoCal that I just like to watch in late…[Read more]

  • Why would you assume they beat Utah? I’m always apprehensive about that game, but I would never assume a BYU victory over Utah.

    As for the rest of that schedule, every single one of those games is a game that I would say BYU could lose. At best, they are all toss-ups. Unless they get significantly better in the next two years, I would pick them…[Read more]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Must-read on PacMas in the forum Football 6 years, 7 months ago

    That was fascinating to read. To see in black & white so many things confirmed that were rumors and how instrumental Chris Hill was in getting us into the Pac-12 . . . that man deserves to be memorialized on campus somehow. Name a building after him or build a statue!  

  • California: 3-0 . . . wins vs North Carolina, @ BYU, vs Idaho State; They might trip up against BYU but I doubt it.
    Oregon: 3-0 . . . wins vs Bowling Green, vs Portland State, vs San Jose State; Three home games against crappy teams? If they don’t go 3-0 they should fire the entire coaching staff on the spot.
    Oregon State: 2-1 . . . wins vs SUU…[Read more]

  • . . . we won’t be a one win Pac-12 champion. 
    If we are good enough to run the table against 9 Pac-12 teams, then we aren’t losing to NIU or BYU. 
    I get that, technically, we can lose to NIU and/or BYU and still win the conference, but what people who throw this statement out there don’t get is that if we lose to NIU or BYU, then it is almost…[Read more]

  • . . . we won’t be a one loss Pac-12 champion. 

    If we are good enough to run the table against 9 Pac-12 teams, then we aren’t losing to NIU or BYU. 

    I get that, technically, we can lose to NIU and/or BYU and still win the conference, but what people who throw this statement out there don’t get is that if we lose to NIU or BYU, then it is almost…[Read more]

  • Arizona: 2-1 . . . wins vs BYU and SUU, loss @ Houston; I could easily see Arizona going 3-0 but I think Houston takes advantage of the Wildcats adjusting to new coaches.
    ASU: 1-2 . . . win vs UTSA, losses vs Michigan State and @ San Diego State; I could just as easily see ASU start the year 0-3 but I think their superior talent wins out over…[Read more]

  • Arizona: 2-1 . . . wins vs BYU and SUU, loss @ Houston; I could easily see Arizona going 3-0 but I think Houston takes advantage of the Wildcats adjusting to new coaches.

    ASU: 1-2 . . . win vs UTSA, losses vs Michigan State and @ San Diego State; I could just as easily see ASU start the year 0-3 but I think their superior talent wins out over…[Read more]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Puka Nacua to USC in the forum Football 6 years, 7 months ago

    As soon as Sampson tweeted that he hoped his brother would go to a better school than Utah, you just knew Puka wasn’t coming to Utah.

  • 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.

  • Very disappointing on multiple levels. 
    Several segments of the movie had a similar feel to the general crapiness of Episodes I, II, and III with cheesy characters and several scenes taking place in a casino? They tried to draw too many parallels to current politics. And the worst part is that the story was boring. I found myself on the verge of…[Read more]

  • 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]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Coaches in the forum Football 7 years, 2 months ago

    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]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Expectations in the forum Football 7 years, 2 months ago

    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]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Expectations in the forum Football 7 years, 2 months ago

    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]

  • There have been rumors/suspicions of a divided team – Team Huntley vs Team Williams
    I think the coaches are trying to kill that divide by going exclusively with Huntley. If they play Williams, his side gets fuel for their fire. If they play Bateman it completely undermines a team captain and would add fuel to the Williams side in a different…[Read more]

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Serious question: in the forum Football 7 years, 3 months ago

    Utah?

    Nice edit.

  • UteThunder replied to the topic Our OL sucks. in the forum Football 7 years, 3 months ago

    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]

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