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Total BS. If agents can contact other agents and offer more $$ isn’t that tampering? What’s the difference? These players can get offers without being in the portal. Why enter the portal? Shop around and find the best offer then enter the portal.

The system isn’t working. It is only benefiting the players and agents at the cost of the unive…[Read more]

I admire your enthusiasm, I really do. But, I don’t completely agree. A couple of counterpoints.

1. We had a great Oline last season, yet … I understand our QB play was terrible. I blame the coaching staff for that.

2. Our defense lost a lot of key players. Our LB starters are good and very experienced. Our safeties should be okay.…[Read more]

Meh.

I don’t love the interlocking U’s. Too busy.

Love your enthusiasm. Could be a great year, could be a middling year as far as I can tell. The B12 does not have a team stacked with elite starters and elite prospects backing up the starters. So it is hard to be certain about who will succeed.

If the balls bounce our way a bit, and we stay relatively healthy, and Dampier/Beck ball out- it will…[Read more]

Good point, Miami. Larry K. didn’t work out, nor did Boylan. So, those were a couple of mulligans. but, if we throw Whit into the mix too, I think we’re looking at 3 for 5 or a .600 batting average for the big sports that really count. Not bad. In fact down right awesome!!!

What is Harlan’s percentage? .000 so far. That’s pitiful. Hopefully…[Read more]

The only game where Utah was completely manhandled last year was the one at Colorado. I mean, there’s an alternate universe out there where the 2024-25 Utah Football Utes went 11-1, won the conference, and made the CFP. Every loss, except for the Colorado game and including the 13 point home defeat to Arizona, was really close and the Utes could…[Read more]

The game that continues to give me pause is last year’s Arizona game. That was a really bad loss. The Wildcats were not good and they walked into RES and bullied the Utes. That wasn’t a loss due to talent – that was a loss due to poor and inconsistent coaching (as was rhe Houston loss). If that hasn’t been fixed this season, I really fear there…[Read more]

I can’t remember a year where I felt like the possible floor and ceiling were so far apart. Would I be completely shocked at 5-7? Unfortunately no. Would anyone really be shocked if they won the conference though? I can’t really say yes. This is not a powerhouse conference and when you have a good defense and an elite offensive line you are pro…[Read more]

This being UCLA and California in late summer, I imagine that any prospective fans will have plenty of choice for seating. $20 will probably get you in to the Rose Bowl easy…

Jim, it’s funny how things take a life of their own. Miami’s motto “It’s all about the U” only started this century, a couple of decades ago, when Donna Shalala became the president of the school. When I was there as a student from 1988-92, no one used the hand symbol or even referred to the school as “The U.”

Chris Hill also gave Larry K a contract that made him one of the Top 10 highest paid basketball head coaches in the nation and made him impossible to fire for several seasons.

You know, there are times I look at this season’s schedule and remember what went on during the last two years, and I kind of shudder. We were looking at a 4-8 season last year until we somehow beat an UCF team that outplayed us (had double the offensive production and led in TOP) for large portions of that game. And that was with, as you say, a…[Read more]

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A few more additions to this thread.

Flashing the U with your hands started with former Utah gymnast Melissa Vitju. She would make the sign to her parents who were sitting in the stands, and it slowly spread from there. It really started to go main stream when Matt Asiata flashed it on national television after scoring a touchdown in the Sugar…[Read more]

I think 7-5 is a pretty reasonable pick. Utah might be decently improved over last year’s team but certainly appears to have a harder schedule this year (Utah’s sos last year was their weakest since the MWC days).

I think if things break their way, they can potentially get to 9-3 but that seems very bullish for Utah at this point.

But I…[Read more]

Jim, I would think so, especially when you look at all of the close games that Utah had but ultimately lost. As I said, 7-5 is my floor but I’m hoping that the Utes can do better than that. I do have to think that, contract or no contract, another disappointing season from the team signifies a trend and would probably mean a change in head coach.

A less complicated offense and a new face running it should get us to 8-4 9-3. Last year left a bad taste in the mouths of coaches and returning players. Please don’t over use Dampier and Parker we need them down the stretch. Spread offense means spread the ball around to others.