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Yeah, I don’t know how you pick just one moment. For a guy who doesn’t “look” like a QB, and doesn’t have one defining skill that sets him apart, the entirety of his career has been one where he’s exceeded expectations. In that, he is the epitomy of Utah football.

When he’s all padded up, he looks like an undersized nose tackle. He’s got that…[Read more]

I think the consensus of all the posts. It’s hard to project a high school running back if they are under sized for college. Portal has more developed players but can have more issues. Recruit and fill in when necessary with the portal. If you have $$ the portal can be a good source for a proven commodity. Development = more $$ not loyalty. Ask JJ.

I know I’ve said that he doesn’t seem to want a different job but I’ve never seen anything official one way or another. He certainly hasn’t acted like he wants advancement as I’ve also never heard about him interviewing elsewhere.

He and Scalley could have a handshake agreement that he moves up to DC when Scalley moves up but if they do it…[Read more]

All good points. Some RBs get bigger and stronger after high school. I had a cousin in Denver that was the #1 running back recruit in the old big12. He could have gone to any college out of high school. He went to CU to be close to home. Never played a down. He told me the speed of the defense was unreal and he wasnt big enough to take the hits.…[Read more]

My post wasn’t about the staff’s ability to pull rabbits out of the hat and cobble together serviceable RB rooms. My post was about HS RB recruiting failures. I’m not arguing that our running game has been bad (it has been good enough, but not much beyond that). I’m simply stating that I think it is crazy that we haven’t done a better job of…[Read more]

As 2020 didn’t count for eligibility, Ty potentially would have been a senior this season, but also quite possible he would be playing on Sunday by now.

What is a 185 lb. High School senior? Is he a 205 Lb. freshmen after a summer in the weight room and proper nutrition, or is he a 185 Lb. guy moving to defensive back after a summer in the weight room and proper nutrition? How about the 205 lb. High School senior? Is he a 220 Lb. butterball when he arrives on campus after being told how good he…[Read more]

Not necessarily looking at the stars but just what he did in high school. Cal poly sucked! No doubt Huard was part of that suck, but he definitely didn’t have any help on offense.

Yeap. The recruit star system has been shown, at times, to be nothing but a popularity contest. Look at BSU, where you have All World 5 Star Malachi Nelson, fresh out of USC, backing up 3 Star RS SO Maddux Madsen (who’s from American Fork, but that’s just by the way).

I think the most egregious thing about recruiting the RB position has been the size. Why in the world did they sign Stanley and Randle if they are such light players with WR/DB builds? Stanley is at least extremely fast and can be used as a WR/RB hybrid, but he will never be a true bellcow RB.

Huard led Cal Poly to a 1-7 record in the BigSky. It’s easy to get enamored with the 5* recruiting ranking, but there’s probably a reason he ended up at the FCS level and then a crowded Utah QB room.

I do wish we still had the RB coach that went to USC and then to the NFL. What was his name? Kiel McDonald.

Running backs are just weird in general. Issues with grades, personality stuff, criminal history, late body development, simply overlooked in High School. It seems to be the ultimate “talent trumps all” situation which is why I think there were so many transfer back pre-portal, and post portal it is even more of a wild west deal.

Zack Moss…[Read more]

the senior Huard is a lousy broadcaster!

Agreed, one of the hard things about recruiting running backs out of high school is it can be hard to tell when they’re genuinely strong runners or just more athletic than all the high school players around them. Transfers are usually proven since they’ve already played college ball.

Take me back to a time where Utah running backs were “not running against a stacked box” according to most of the people on this board the only consistent thing about the Utah program since 2009 is running inside zone 70% of the plays regardless of OC or QB situation…

Having more success with a transfer running back is not unique to Utah, it…[Read more]

I’m not one to complain about the coaches, but it seems like we are awfully arrogant about our ability to run it up the middle. I can’t help but think being a running back at Utah has become a little more difficult because you’re facing stacked boxes the whole game.

Good post. I’m still crying over Ty Jordan. Had he stayed in school 4-5 years he would have been with Utah for 2024, right?

In recent history, most of our success with RB has been via the transfer portal.

Devonte Booker – Transfer
Joe Williams – Transfer
Tavion Thomas – Transfer
JJ – Transfer

Ty Jordan – Recruit
Zack Moss – Recruit
Micah Bernard – Recruit