Comments on the Las Vegas Bowl

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- 12/20/2015 at 7:21 AM #7585
  
  Tony (admin)
  Admin/Founder
  
  @admin
  
  My disdain for byu is well documented. If an alien ship came down and scooped all of Utah County off the face of the planet I’d be good with that.
  
  As miserable as I felt for the last 3 quarters in the Vegas Bowl about our complete ineptness on offense, I think it was a fantastic way to humiliate byu and their fans. The game was pretty much won at 35-0. But since the Ute offense is/was so bad, it gave the zoobs 3 quarters of “hope” for their miracle comeback. In the end, they couldn’t do it. They thought they could but got beaten a 2nd time in the game, in a different way.
  
  How bad must it have felt for them to actually believe they could win, then have those hopes crushed? So the zoobies were crushed twice… once in the first quarter at 35-0 and once again when they couldn’t pull off the comeback.
  
  If byu couldn’t beat the Utes this time, when could they? This was their chance. Many of Utah’s “best” players were injured. The offense can’t move. Can’t score, and is as predictable as the sun rising in the east.
  
  I was not impressed with Tanner Mangum (that is his name right?). He threw a few good balls. He stood in the pocket fairly well (much better than Wilson ever has). But a LOT of his throws were heaves of desperation. Some were so far off that our DB’s couldn’t adjust. Maybe that’s their strategy.
  
  Oh, and byu had no running game… at all. Not a threat there.
  
  After the game was over I was quite disappointed because of the offense. Somehow though we made it to 10-3 in the Pac-12, which is fantastic. Smoke and mirrors perhaps, but it sure as hell isn’t luck. Add to that a bowl win over hopefully our soon to be former rival.
- 12/20/2015 at 9:07 AM #7600
  
  THEeyepatch
  Ute Fan
  
  @theeyepatch1
  
  “But a LOT of his throws were heaves of desperation. Some were so far off that our DB’s couldn’t adjust. Maybe that’s their strategy.”
  
  I got that out of watching him too and remember, they won two games from him heaving the ball up. They have slow receivers but they’re big and tall so it looks like it IS their strategy?!
  
  On a side note, looks like the TDS will win the SL media and perhaps nationally with their announcement of Kalani Sitake as their new HC. Nobody will be talking — at least in Utah — about the Utes going 10-3 and beating the Big XII wannabes. It’s going to be all about the TDS almost coming back, future Heisman “winner” Tatum Mango and Sitake all week there in Utah and probably till next fall? We’ll see?
  
  5 IN A ROW!
  
  10-3
  
  Possible Top-20 ranking… it’s good to be a Ute fan.
  
  GO UTES!
- 12/20/2015 at 10:25 AM #7618
  
  Tony (admin)
  Admin/Founder
  
  @admin
  
  Fine. Let them have their fantasy world. I don’t listen anyway.
- 12/20/2015 at 12:44 PM #7619
  
  EUte
  Ute Fan
  
  @eute
  
  We’ve always heard about what a big, heated rivalry Utah-USU was back in the day. I guess that changed simply as a result of the longstanding disparity between the two teams and I would expect the same thing to happen with the zoobs. Of course, these days there is a local media whose primary goal is to prop up this so-called rivalry and create semblance of parity between the two programs.
- 12/20/2015 at 1:10 PM #7621
  
  Anonymous
  Inactive
  
  Tanner Mango will never amount to much as a QB. QBs who can throw receivers open are much in demand; QBs who specialize in throwing Hail Mary jump balls are not.