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I know i talk about UW more than people like but that’s what I grew up with so it makes for easy analogies.

In 1984, UW had what should have been universally recognized as a National championship season (apparently the trophy got lost on the way to Montlake. Maybe someone knows where it’s being kept and can return it to it’s rightful owner)…[Read more]

Expecting us to do well is realistic. Anyone that expected us to “walk through the conference” is a neanderthal and I don’t know why we should waste time taking that opinion seriously.

Whether the team does well from here or not is less a scheme or personnel issue than it is a team environment issue. The team will play with fire when they feel…[Read more]

Utah vs TCU: Loss
Utah at Housto: Win
Utah vs BYU: Loss
Utah at Colorado: Win
Utah vs Iowa State: Loss
Utah at UCF: Win

So I’ve got us at 7 wins. 6 wins is also very likely because Colorado is probably a tossup. 8 Wins is near impossible.

If Friday’s team is who we are moving forward . . .

vs TCU – Toss-up
@ Houston – Toss-up
vs BYU – Loss
@ Colorado – Loss
vs Iowa State – Loss
@ UCF – Toss-up

The program is more important than Kyle Whittingham.

It’s this pervasive attitude that breeds under performance. The man knows he’s considered entirely untouchable. Who here is responsible for anyone’s productivity? If you are or have been, what happens to someone’s level of effort and the quality of their work when there’s no urgency and no…[Read more]

Statistically, they aren’t a terrible defense. But you have to admit, this is not the defense we are used to. Even Whittingham said after the loss to ASU that the defense is underperforming.

Sports are essentially impossible to predict. Especially football because injuries are so frequent. There’s a reason why companies that make money off gambling flock to sports – the high statistical variance in sports favors those companies making money.

Attempting to apply any type of rational predictive scheme to football is a fool’s errand.

You’ve got a top 20 defense in both scoring and yards allowed. The problem isn’t on both sides of the ball. One side is just having to shoulder an extra load because of the ineptitude of the other.

The two P4 wins were built on the defense either directly scoring points or putting the offense in position for easy points. The two losses, the…[Read more]

It is a fallacy. If you are the underdog, you are expected to lose so you can only get positive outcomes. You either did as expected or you outperform. When you are the favorite you can only get negative outcomes. People want positive so they put mythic qualities on David beating Goliath.

The same fallacy exists when people talk about coaches…[Read more]

Yeah, obviously finishing 7-5 would be a massive step back, given the expectations, and you’d expect heads to roll at that point. But, this being Utah, I don’t think that’ll happen. If Whitt stays on, I’d expect to see little to no change in the composition of the coaching staff given his sense of loyalty to “his guys.”

I also said 9-3 but thought the issue would be all of the new faces and places that were going to have to be dealt with. Instead, it’s been the teams Utah should be most familiar with that have been the problem.

Finishing 3-3 would represent an epic coaching failure. Roughly the same team went 8-4 last year against a tougher schedule and with…[Read more]

P4 teams with 3 losses after half the season, which effectively negates them from playoff contention:

Arizona
Cal
Maryland
South Carolina
Central Florida
USC
Washington
West Virginia
Michigan State
North Carolina St
North Carolina
Northwestern
Oklahoma St
Stanford
TCU
Auburn
Baylor
Minnesota
Purdue
UCLA
Virginia Tech
Wake…[Read more]

are you Jay Hill’s agent? I kid, but at the same time, Hill would be a local hire for a program with National aspirations. There’s nothing wrong with a Utah guy running the Utah program but swapping Scalley out for Hill just sounds like an older version of the same.

When some of us talk about doing a search and if Scalley is the best guy run…[Read more]

Urban also had a pretty good ability to identify future head coaches who had the same aggressive philosophy that he did. Between Whitt, Mullen, Sanford and I think at least one more that I’m not remembering off the top of my head, that 2003/04 coaching staff had a lot of talent on it who also became HC’s in a very short period of time…[Read more]

Yes, I believe this is true. However, I think we ara long way from there right now. If Whitt wants to coach next year – he will. But, at some point the administration may come to him and say that its time.

They tried to let Mac go with dignity but he didn’t want any part of it. It took a few years but Mac is seen as a Ute football icon.

I predicted that the Utes, with a healthy Rising, would go 9-3. Obviously, we don’t have a healthy Rising and probably never will so a 7-5 season is more likely. If that’s the case, Utah will be shuttled off to a lower-profile bowl that most fans will have little enthusiasm to go to.

IMO, this is KWs last season. At 65, time to ski, play golf, hangout with family. Sometimes at the end of your career it’s not in the cards to achieve all your high level immediate high level goals. Celebrate the collective achievements over the years and pass the torch. KW staying on as a consultant he can represent Utah’s work towards Super Lea…[Read more]

Thank you. I figure for those who know Chop Suey Luey’s, we experienced those years hoping for a winning record and beating TSPP was the highlights.