Excited to announce that I have committed to play D1 lacrosse at The University of Utah #GoUtes pic.twitter.com/tixQw7LM0b
— Jimmy Erickson (@JimmyErickson_) June 23, 2017
Product of south central. C house vet. 👊🏾🏈. Syfl. http://t.co/tViVjFXLji pic.twitter.com/pCxq6Krfwk
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) October 11, 2015
Never in my life did I think Snoop Dogg would tweet regarding Utah Football. Definitely more eyeballs are viewing the U since being in the PAC12.
I fixed it for you. Copy the link to the tweet and just paste it on its own line in the text editor and the tweet will appear.
I don’t remember that tweet, but snoop is very involved in the football community. I know he used to coach pee wee football, maybe one of his old players?
Has anyone heard much about our kicking game? I think we have Hicken and a juco guy.
They have big shoes to fill with Andy being finished. Will they be just as good, almost as good, or will we see more riverboat Kyle this year?
In the warmups for the spring game, I thought I saw them hitting a few from distance, but that’s practice.
Anyone have any insights on these guys?
The only thing I know is our punter is awesome.
Pretty sure the Chayden Johnson (think that’s his name) kid is back from a mission. Supposed to be pretty solid and better than what we saw in the spring game. I believe it’s his job to lose.
Johnston, and yes he is back. Pretty highly touted coming out of high school. Hope he can fill the void left by Phillips.
Thanks all. I found this article after a quick Google search. Dude seems legit.
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1416165-155/johnston-chayden-kicking-bingham-offered-peck
We have 4 kickers right now with Johnson as our only scholarship kicker.
This fall will be a battle royal for the job.
We just had a kid transfer from UVU a week ago.
I hadn’t heard about that one. Sounds like some good competition.
On the kickoff side, I hope one of these guys can continually put the ball past the end zone.
Yeah, no kidding. Kick the thing out of the endzone, make them go 75 yards. Simple stuff.
Analytics indicate you kick it to the goal line and they won’t make it to the 25 a d they have to go 76-80 yards instead.
For kickoff returns you mean?
And increase the chance of getting a turnover
100% of touch backs are not returned for TD’s.
It seems like every year we get burned by a kickoff returned for a TD.
I wonder what the statistics are for our opponents’ average starting field position on kickoffs they were able to return. I feel like it is better than the 25 yard line which means we need to stop trying to be so cute and just kick it out of the endzone every time.
I watched Chaydon Johnston live (Bingham @ Brighton). Every kick is higher than the posts, even extra points, and straight down the middle it seems. #12 nationally ranked kicker.
Well,,, if Taylor has his way kicks should only be PAT’s and kickoffs, so onside every kickoff and go for 2…
“Defense wins championships.”
People in Utah are also generally more defensive. Not necessarily the best personality trait, but better than being offensive I suppose?
This establishment is licensed as a restaurant, not a bar.
I’m certain Jesus never drank his wine without a meal, or at least nachos as an appetizer.
I’m certain Jesus never drank his wine without a meal, or at least nachos as an appetizer.
Thus the popular term, “Jesus nachos.”
Utah will never bring in that sexy high profile, recruit or free agent. The local religislature, with their “don’t like it? Then leave” attitude assures that for the foreseeable future. So the teams around here must build with what they can – hard workers with a chip on their soldier – which usually means better defense, less offense.
I am unclear about how fans expect that having three first round draft picks in the last three years will help Utah get bluechip basketball recruits. For the most part, the draft picks Utah had were developed (at Utah) over multiple years, and in the case of Kuzma three years. Although the end product of being drafted in the first round is nice, most bluechip players want to be a lottery pick after their first season and I don’t blame them ($$$). Utah’s best pitch is always going to be taking high three star and low four star guys, developing them, and getting them drafted after several years of development. Looking at Utah’s draft classes reflects that thinking (i.e. Tillman, Carlson, Brenchley, and Popoola). Yes, it would be very nice to get the occasional bluechipper but that is never going to be the way to sustained basketball success at Utah.
Compare the results with Kuzma to Eric Mika. There you go.
Not sure its about landing the 5-star 1-and-done but getting the better 3- to 4-star players.
This rebuilding laker team will give him much needed playing time and he will get to develop under a good coach. I really like this for Kuz. I didn’t want him to leave but he proved me wrong and landed in the first round and showed the nba what he was capable of. I predict he’ll be successful in the NBA with a long career.
Let’s face it! He’ll be the next Kobe!
That would certainly help Utah Basketball marketing.
Of course for them it was Lonzo Ball and “everyone else”…
http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-other-picks-20170622-story.html
Now turn that into some croots dammit
Not being able to flip this into some relatively highly rated players is utter incompetence. “Imagine what we could do with a touted recruit like yourself”
You have to play the recruiting game and bend the rules. Until Larry decides to do so, our recruiting will suffer.
This is spot on. The recruiting boards know of several 4 star bigs that were all but locks to Utah until they got paid to go elsewhere….cough, cough, NC State.
Nevermind, Brooklyn traded thrir pick to the Lakers.
L.A. Is better than Brooklyn for Kuz but I’ll have a hard time rooting for him there.
Happy for Kuz! I’ve always liked him.
So is he in Brooklyn or LA? How much dough will he get?
About $1.2M minimum salary in first year.
Fantastic. I hope he can survive and flourish in the NBA of course. That said I hope he stashes the dough away because his career there may not be long.
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