Few things about this game and (and some about this team) that are 100% truths

As well as some other thoughts I had watching the game.

1. This loss is not on Huntley. He wasn’t great, he was just pretty good. He made the throws to keep the drive alive at the end (minus that last one that was a long shot anyways). He made better decisions when running the ball, with a few exceptions, and he was more decisive when running and handing off. He improve.

2. This is loss is not on Troy Taylor. Troy’s gameplan was good. He called the plays we needed to win this football game, but players that had nothing to do with the success of the plays got in the way and ruined his good play calls (terrible pass on the trick play, and multiple penalties negating first downs). If two throws were better, we would have won that game going away.

3. This is NOT a winning football team. This team is NOT worth a ruined weekend not spent with the wife and kids. This team is clearly not in it to win it. So why do I even bother watching?

4. This team shoots itself in the foot year after year after year. We have always had enough talent to win the south (with the exception of the losing season years IMO). We have always been in positision to win the south… but EVERY DAMN TIME WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT WE SHOOT OURSELVES IN THE FOOT! This has been going on for years, and we no longer have excuses.

5. We could have won this game easily. Terrible missed throw on the trick play. Stupid and unnecessary (and very weak) block in the back on the punt return. ABSOLUTELY HORRID TACKLING by Blackmon and Ballard on the long touchdown by WSU. Stupid false start in a crucial situation. Even stupider and more unnecessary holding in a crucial situation. Am I missing anything?

It honestly feels like these guys don’t want to win the football game. There are only a handful of dudes on this team that I give two farts about, and none of them are good enough to win ball games for us in the Pac 12.

This football team, and their collective lack of givas**t when it matters most is a slap in the face to us fans. 

Until some sort of radical change takes place in the makeup of this team, I will not be watching another game. It just isn’t worth my time if the players won’t bother to do what it takes to win games that are in our grasp. I am tired of just being in the games, that isn’t enough, we need to win.

While I said that this loss wasn’t Huntley’s fault, he still needs to be benched. He is a decent QB, but he isn’t good enough to win games for this team when we need him to. He makes some goodish throws, but misses a lot of easy ones. He doesn’t completely miss dudes, but he is almost never right on target with throws. He is almost always late on his throws, and routinely underthrows guys. His best weapon throwing the ball is drawing pass interference calls with his underthrown passes. I think the big change that needs to happen is his being benched, but it won’t happen. He’ll play out the rest of the season unless he gets hurt. The coaching staff will pull another dick move like that did with Troy and bench Huntley next year in the fall when he no longer has time to really transfer, in his senior season, when he is fully expecting to start.

If Huntley is the best option at QB, we are going to be a terrible team for the next 4 years. If Tuttle doesn’t throw a more accurate ball than Huntley, even as a true freshman, we are screwed screwed screwed at QB yet again. Is it too much to ask to have a QB that can throw the ball to a runner more than 3 yards down field in stride? Every catch that was made (other than the one to Covey that was called back) required an adjustment by the receiver. Huntley got the job done, but he shouldn’t be our best option at QB.

I will not be watching any games until a significant change is made to this team. In other words, new coach, or new QB, or a drastic change in the attitude of this team some other way (don’t see how that one is even possible), and I will start watching this team again. Until then, they don’t deserve the attention of ANY Ute fan that isn’t the family member of a player on the team.

WHAT A DISGRACE!

__________________________________ Side Note

It’s starting to feel like Whittingham is done after this year whether he gets canned or not. I think he might actually retire after this year.