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We filled the Marriott Center for 12 years in the WCC, spare me that argument.

And as far as NIL…your QB1 this year made more than any single BYU athlete has or does.

My overall thoughts on BYU/Utah and NIL: https://www.utehub.com/forums/topic/thoughts-on-nil-from-a-byu-fan-i-come-in-peace/

Doesn’t he have a consultant contract? Scalley could be HC and Whitt could still be involved in a consulting role.

Coach in waiting shouldn’t last over a year. I think the plan was make the CFP and retire.

I wonder if Whitt reverts to coachspeak at home.

Wife: Did you take out the garbage like I asked?

Whitt: I will evaluate, obviously, before the day is over, but my removal of the garbage will be based on what’s best for the house, not what’s best for me. It will be completely determined on how I feel this house is best served going forward.…[Read more]

Gamy,

I always love when someone says, “no disrespect intended”, but then goes on to be as disrespectful as H*ll trashing his target. Doesn’t play good. Listen, you line up against your opponent and play the game. It’s the way it’s always been and the way it will always be. Besides, what do you base this denigration of Armstrong on? His…[Read more]

No disrespect to Ike Armstrong and all his titles and undefeated seasons, but Utah was playing against high schools at the time. Literally. Look it up.

High school coaches play little to no part in whether kids turn into D1 football players. They are largely born with the measurables. As long as they work to maximize their genetics, college coaches will find them.

Recruiting to a high school is not the same as recruiting to a university. For the most part, the pitch is, “Hey kid, we’re getting…[Read more]

Does Ike have any local relatives? If so, give him/her a clipboard and a whistle.

Madsen can shoot…at home. Time will tell if he can shoot on the road, but the evidence so far isn’t favorable. We have average overall talent, below average athleticism, and way-below-average FT shooting.

I think we will be a disaster on the road and respectable at home. Maybe even pull off a couple top-25 upsets. We’ll have plenty of chances…[Read more]

For what it’s worth, here are the salaries of current Big 12 football head coaches with the exception of Sitake:

Highest-Paid Big 12 Football Coaches

1. Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State – $7.75 million
2. Lance Leipold, Kansas – $7.5 million
3. Kyle Whittingham, Utah – $6.525 million
4. Deion Sanders, Colorado – $5.7 million
5. Chris Klieman, Kansas…[Read more]

Is Corner Canyon great because Kjar is a great coach? Or is Corner Canyon great because they have a ton of great players transfer into his program?

I’m sure he is a fine coach, but my guess is the latter. Any coach is going to look like a genius with the athletes he’s had at Corner Canyon.

Nothing that a few million in NIL money can’t solve. We just need to find a couple big donors to get (buy) good players.

It would be interesting to see what our attendance would be if we had the same situation as BYU.

I told my friends 15 years ago the U basketball program is broken beyond repair and they all laughed. LMAO. If we aren’t the bottom feeders for basketball (just like football) I will be incredibly shocked.

We all know Scalley is the next HC and we hope he’s gonna be great.

FIFY

Instead of a hypothetical you should have labeled this thread fantasy choice.

We all know Scalley is the next HC and he’s gonna be great. He’s not Whit Jr he has a different offensive philosophy than Whit. He’s gonna bring young energy to the program.

My fantasy picks

Nick Saban
Jim Harbaugh

Sign me up as well. I’ll take 2 to 5 years that results in a playoff run over 20 years of consistency with a Rose Bowl loss ceiling.

Probably just here to Urban Meyer us. Which I’m ok with.

If those two years are DeBoer at UW level, sign me up.

The truth as I see it is that any coach who wins 9 games at Utah will be a commodity going forward. And I’ll take as many of those as you’re willing to throw at me. Whitt is a unicorn and current recruits have no idea who McBride i…[Read more]

Playing Wilson this year just moved up the inevitable. We got to see his true talent level and decision making instead of putting all of the 2025 hopes on him. And quite frankly, as bad as the Wilson hype was for the last 2 years, the lead up to 2025 would have been insufferable around these parts if he’d rode the pine this year.

If the stories are true, it was Taylor who put his foot down on starting Huntley. Whitt wanted to go with Williams