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2023: 45.5 yards per punt (tied #21)
2024: 44.7 (tied #35)

of all the dark spots for the last 2 seasons, Bouwmeester wasn’t one of them. If the only acceptable punters are Ray Guy winners, be prepared for a lot of disappointment.

Barf.

From what I heard, Beck put his foot down and told Whittingham that it’s his offense and his say and that he would take recommendations from him, but that it was his call. We’ll see if that actually holds up.

Damuni is coming back. He would have been good to play the last third of the games, but he decided against it and redshirted because of the way the season was trending.

After he tore his Achilles, he ended up doing stem cell treatment and he healed crazy fast.

There’s plenty of room for optimism and the farther we get from game 12 of the 2024 season, the more optimistic this place will get. By next August you’ll be begging for little ole Eeyore to get the red kool-aid out of your sippy cup 🙂 I kid

Right now, the rhetoric is worse than normal for this time of year. It’s only been a week since the…[Read more]

Great football coach but insufferable person to deal with.

Mike has been shopping him since midseason. The claim is they think Isaac will get a $1 mill NIL deal from an SEC school 🤣🤣🤣

Unfortunately I think we’re going to be seeing a mass exodus of players leaving over the next few days and more will leave in the spring and Utah will have another down year next season. Time to clean house in the coaching room.

If I am not mistaken wasn’t this dude pretty mid? Not nearly close to the hackett/wishnowksky level but I do think he improved this year

Well, bye. If true, wish him the best, but I’m done with the program being held hostage by one player. This is year to year now thanks to lawless NIL, let’s figure out the best QB for 2025 with the idea that they might be gone for 2026 and just plan to deal with that after the 2025 season. Can’t plan on players being around multiple seasons anymore.

Meh, I am very whelmed by this choice. Not the worst, not the best. More frustrated that we couldn’t land Arbuckle despite having the budget to make him one of the highest paid OC, then I’m hearing rumors from Locked On Utes that we whiffed on Leftwich by low balling him. Really hope he can work magic for us.

He absolutely needs to return. He obviously lost a step this season because of his foot injury. If he can get healthy and back to his freshman all American level he’ll be a day 2 pick.

Barton returning would be huge. But I would think he’d consider entering the NFL draft. He’s got the talent to go early.

Maybe there should be a separate page on Ute hub called the red goggles zone. It could be a safe space where no negativity could be spoken about the team. Only optimism of national championships every year.

True I agree, BUT many of this could have been avoided, and IMO, self-inflicted. Whitt’s love affair with 7-year starter Rising and NIL freshman Wilson over other QBs was an issue detrimental to their team success. The team is not always one person (Rising or Wilson), but a team effort and it caused a rift that should have never happened with a…[Read more]

Haha, very fair point. I fully accept that others (including you) were right (and I was wrong) earlier in the season when they were pessimistic (and I was more optimistic). I did not see us going on such a grueling and painful losing streak. And I do think Whitt deserves criticism after the last two seasons.

Part of what I’m saying here though…[Read more]

You have to recruit out of the portal also

Oh the huge manatee!

Surely you aren’t suggesting that the 5 minutes between officially entering the portal and committing to their new school is not enough time for kids to field recruiting calls and figure out their next destination?

How much does being an ace recruiter vs just an decent one even matter in the NIL+Portal ultimate free agency sweepstakes era even matter.