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oh, and welcome to the board. I enjoyed our conversations at Block U

It’s the same team that started the year. There were just 3 really bad opponents to make it seem better than it was. Oklahoma State is interesting for comparison though because you have two long-tenured coaches who seem to have lost the narrative at exactly the same time.

At this point, I’m trying to decide if two things are true…[Read more]

What do you think of Odom at UNLV? He was at Mizzou for four years before getting canned but actually had a decent record there. He’s got deep ties back east and could probably make Utah’s case to a different type of recruit.

I agree, though I haven’t paid attention to any G5 teams outside of BSU (well mostly Jeanty) so I’m not aware of which coaches, if any, would fit that mold.

Human psychology is an interesting thing. When the highest-paid player on the team and the “face of the franchise” is a guy whose best days are behind him, you’re going to have problems. The fact is that money, as we all know, plays a huge role in this equation. Rising hasn’t done anything for years. To a young, financially insecure adult,…[Read more]

Right, like I said, long shot. My point being I don’t want the reigns to be handed off to Scalley without looking at other options first. Age isn’t as much of a concern to me, I’d take 2 to 5 years from a coach if it meant he elevated the team beyond a conference championship. I’m no longer a fan of hiring a coach with the plan to be there for 2…[Read more]

If you really wanted him, the time to get Cignetti was after last season. He’s not moving from Indiana until he gets offered one of the top 10 jobs like DeBoer did when he moved on from Washington.

I realize there haven’t been a lot of hiring opportunities since I started being a Utah fan in 1988 but what you need to try to replicate is the…[Read more]

It’s a risky move but, if I was in charge, I would go in a completely different direction as far as a head coach is concerned. Most importantly, if the team craters the next couple of seasons, what do you think the fan excitement is going to be have a HC who was part and parcel of such a disaster? It would be madness to ascend to the HC job…[Read more]

I understand…but I doubt that Cignetti, a guy frpm Pittsburgh who’s never coached west of the Mississippi River, even considers the Utah job. Plus, he’s only a couple of years younger than Whitt and close to retirement age himself.

I went to the Las Vegas Bowl and that was the first time that I started hearing the natives getting restless. The offensive display in that game was just that, offensive. It’s one thing to be bad but it’s quite another to be bad AND boring. You combine the two and you start getting apathy and disinterest since, at the end of the day, all sports…[Read more]

It’s definitely a long shot, probably not possible now that we’re on the outside looking in (again), but he’s definitely at the top of my wish list.

2024 Utah isn’t even in the same conversation as 2024 Florida State when it comes to fan disappointment.

That’s what usually happens when you have a QB that moves like he’s carrying a piano on his back.

I like Cignetti, but don’t you think that going from Indiana (and the B1G) to Utah and the Big XII would be a step down or at least a lateral move? I know that Indiana has never been a football school but even with that, they seem to get recruits (i.e. Penix) that Utah wouldn’t have a chance to get.

Fano is struggling with losing contain. I think Barton got blamed for a couple of his because the numbers look so similar. That 12 yard run by Leavitt to the left side in the first half was all on Fano taking too direct an angle to the QB.

I’ve defended Whitt since the 5-7 years on the old Block U site. But I think his time has come or is rapidly approaching. Not a fan of Scalley taking over either, hopefully I’m proved wrong about that, but I’d prefer Harlan take a look at Brian Johnson, Jay Hill, or Cignetti from Indiana.

Funny you should mention that, because I was thinking the same exact thing last night. There are a number of G5 teams that would absolutely feast on this version of Utah football. Boise State and Memphis are other teams that would make Utah look bad at the present.

Scalley’s D is missing two very important elements that he relies on almost to a fault. He doesn’t have an eraser at ILB in the mold of Lloyd, C. Barton, Bernard or Hansen (-on?). Reid is a step up from what we saw last night but he is not that caliber.

He also doesn’t have a safety who can play in the box or at the LOS. Ritchie looked like he…[Read more]

Weddle said yesterday, doesn’t do the gamesmanship. “We know what you have, you know what we have and the best team will win” Doesn’t get the hiding of injuries etc. Disagrees with Whitt’s strategy