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Don’t put your eggs in the Huard basket. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he ended up throwing the same number of passes in his Utah career as Cooper Bateman. Or me. But at least my total fit with my recruiting ranking.,,

Good point, I have been pleasantly surprised by other teams success with the portal, so if it were any other team I’d say yes, but under Whitt no I don’t believe we could get those types of RB’s to come in, which I guess brings us back to square one – if Whitt stays who the hell gets the OC role that we can even remotely be excited about.

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I find the recruiting ranking argument as a reason why Utah can’t have a great offense to be silly. Mike Leach had great offenses every year and no one confused WSU’s athletes for blue chippers. He chose one thing, coached his team to do it well, and ran it over and over daring the defense to stop it.

Utah’s current athletes running the…[Read more]

The million dollar question is does Wilson or Rose transfer or do they stay and fight. Wilson has got valuable snaps that freshman rarely get. In hindsight Rose should have been the back up.

Both have room for improvement and if they both stay along with Huard the QB room could be strong. The QB competition will be intense. A new OC and fresh…[Read more]

I’m with you on the thinking but Utah doesn’t currently have an Ashton Jeanty on the roster. And I’m not sure next year’s RB’s fit a power run game. I’m not one who believes that you have to have a 230 pound bruiser to run the ball effectively but if you aren’t going to run the defender over, you have to be able to avoid contact and I haven’t…[Read more]

Dirk Koetter? I’d say his current offense is Ashton Jeanty first, but not necessarily run first. From his Wikipedia page: At Arizona State, Koetter compiled a 40–34 (.541) record, and four Bowl appearances in six years. Under Koetter, who was also the offensive play caller, the Sun Devils became known for a vertical passing attack.

2001 ASU – 3…[Read more]

True Freshman QB = steep learning curve

History shows true Freshmen QB almost always do better with at least one year of learning from the sidelines. Combine this with the dysfunction in the program and it adds up to a tough year. We need to give Isaac a break.

Brandon Rose a step up from Isaac? You don’t say. It’s almost as if Rose has been in the program for a few years vs an 18 year old true freshman. This sub needs to get an absolute grip. I almost feel like some Ute fans, the same ones that hated on Zach and said he was trash are wanting Isaac to produce like Zach’s Covid year. This season has been…[Read more]

Know a guy that knew Troy Taylor when he was here. Taylor told him that as the seasons progressed, Whitt became more and more “involved” in the offense.

Great insights on looking at the pay of OC. Would be interesting to see how long those OC have been at the same position with the same school. Outside of money, what else do OC wants? An OC career path is either getting fired or to become a HC. If they are not good, they are out. If they are good, most likely they will be asked to become a HC…[Read more]

I’m hoping there is some serious soul searching going on up on the hill. Status quo is not the answer. By the way, Saturday night’s bluegrass concert in town alleviated a lot of afternoon’s agitation.

“You’re traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of game time decisions but of mind games. A journey into a not so wondrous land whose boundaries are that of zero offensive imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Whittlight Zone!”

I’m not sure anyone is arguing that he doesn’t play his heart out, but that is half the equation. His pocket awareness is not great and the delayed decision making isn’t helping. It seemed like such a step up to Brandon Rose. I would agree that it is a coaching problem if we got similar results from Brandon Rose, but we didn’t. I recognize the sam…[Read more]

I’ve said this all year long. If Whitt would have given Rising’s money to Jackson, let Rising walk, and gone with Rose/Wilson but had Jackson/Bernard as his RB’s, we’d be undefeated right now.

Whitt does everything he can to restrict QB’s. Why he let a RB like Jackson walk to pay Rising…blows my mind.

The problem with Whitt is he knows he…[Read more]

This. Whitt has had…9? 10? 11? OC’s in 20 years. They have the same issues.

The issue isn’t the OC. It’s Whitt. As long as he is here, it really doesn’t matter who the OC is. We will run the same offense we always run.

That being said, we need an OC who is a run first guy and doesn’t really need the forward pass.

So my vote is Boise St’s OC.

If Whitt stays my only hope is maybe Koetter from Boise St, he’s old school and his offense seems to fit Whitt’s style featuring a power RB. The other 2 in my wish list above is assuming Whitt retires and Scalley opens up the search. I don’t have any illusions about how this will go though, just wishful/hopeful thinking.

you saw his offense in the 2023 bowl game. If you weren’t impressed by the 14 points Northwestern put up against 1/2 of the Utah starting D, or the 22.1 ppg (106th in country), you aren’t going to be impressed with what he does at Utah.

That 22.1 was the high water mark for him at Northwestern. But it was an improvement from the 13.8 in 2022.