I understand jacking up the prices but I think it’s a joke that the last two years have gone from:
2023: USC, Oregon, Washington, etc.
2024: Kansas State, Iowa State, Cincinnati, etc
2025: same 2024 garbage but one less game
while increasing the cost each year.
I have the opposite opinion. Last year was extremely disappointing, but fans ran out a competent backup from 2023 for a true freshman. The fact we banked on true freshman Isaac Wilson to pick up Ludwig’s scheme was an absolute flop by the coaching staff! That being said …
2023 was an absolute success of a season with the circumstances given. 8 wins with a backup QB was incredible given the schedule and QB’s we faced. Combine that with the injuries we had, our coaching staff deserves a ton of credit for that season! Obviously the Cam Rising situation was massively disappointing! But we had a decent season because of our staff.
I expect Utah to be in contention again next year. I think the D Line was the very average in 2023 and 24 so we needed a revamp there. Vakalahi is going to be a star! Vimahi is a steady presence. Lea’eas attitude and athleticism is very positive and good! He’ll have the weight necessary to contribute and I think he has the potential to take Vimahis spot.
Bottom line is, Utah will be fine!
I agree that Barton did not have a good season. I talked to his family just last week. He had never recovered from his 2023 injury and was a step slow. I hope to see the Barton from the 2023 again in 2025.
As far as the D-line is concerned – we do have Fano back and he is a stud IMO. But, we seem to lack experience in the middle. That’s just me. I will gladly eat crow and I so hope that I am wrong.
Tony, I get what you are saying. BUT, other teams lose QBs and the offense still performs. In 2023 when we lost Rising, Arizona lost Ward. They went to their backup and ended up 10-2. Preparing a backup QB is the coach’s responsibility. We have not had a good backup QB in years.
Also, we had a lot more problems than just QB in 2024 IMO. The offense was worse than pathetic.
Yeah for some reason attendance at the JMHC is never good when we’re in the NIT. It drops significantly from the regular season average – almost certainly because NIT games are not included with season ticket packages so everyone has to pay for tickets. And at that stage of the season, not in the ncaa tourney, interest drops off for some.
During the 2023-24 regular season, the JMHC had between 7,000 and 9,000 for every game (sometimes a little more). But then when the NIT came around, attendance collapsed.
The attendance for UC Irvine and Iowa in the NIT was 3,137 and 3,804, respectively. We can probably throw out NIT attendance because it has no real bearing on regular season attendance and season ticket holders.
Thanks Miami.
247 composite, popular opinion’s best recruiting rating source and metric, has us #44 in composite avg talent score per recruit.
By same source and metric:
We were #36 in 2024.
We were #24 in 2023.
We were #36 in 2022.
…in Columbus, in a game that was sadly not broadcast.
Utah raced out to a commanding 7-2 lead early in the 2nd-Qtr, but Ohio St was able to methodically close that gap with 4 unanswered goals of their own by that period’s midpoint. While the Utes never trailed in this game, Ohio St kept it close, until Utah managed to open a strong 4th-Qtr, providing us another comfortable 5-6 point buffer to close out the game.
Utah winning the face-off battle may have been the key in today’s victory. Our [+12] face-off advantage enabled us to rattle their defenders ala 9 more shots on the goal than Ohio St was able to inflict on us.
Having fallen in a 3-pt decision to the Buckeyes in Columbus in February of last year, 8-11, Utah’s record vs Ohio St advances to 1-1 (.500). Hopefully someday, we’ll be able to get them to agree to a return game in Salt Lake City.
Delaware visits Rice-Eccles stadium next Saturday at noon, in a game that will most certainly be available for broadcast, for all us out-of-state lacrosse fans to enjoy. Delaware is a traditional lacrosse power, who while not ranked right now, they are currently 3-spots behind Utah in the “receiving votes” category. Delaware finished “receiving votes last year” as well, but closed out the 2023 season ranked #13.
This will be Delaware’s first visit to Salt Lake City. I hope our local Utes will show up to RES in strong support next week for our LAXers!
GO UTES!!!
#SaltLAXCity
Elon Musk admits he only bought Twitter because he thought he’d be forced to.
He made a flippant offer that he wanted to back out of, but ended up trapping himself in a legal bind that he realized he would lose. He then decided to turn Twitter into a propaganda platform for his political agenda.
When Biden was president, he held a forum for all electric car manufacturers, but guess who was not invited? That’s right, Elon Musk. If his sole purpose was to infiltrate the government why would he gamble on Trump winning a second time after losing?
Contradictory sentences. If Biden snubbed him, how was he going to be influential in Biden’s government?
Musk leveraged massive subsidies under Democrats to develop his businesses. Now that those businesses are mature, he’s moving on to deregulation – a Republican position. He reached a ceiling with how much Democratic policy could benefit him, so being the opportunist that he is, he has shifted to leveraging right-wing economic ideology. He would never be able to achieve in a Democrat government the level of direct influence in shaping policy like he now has under the no-guardrails Trump government. He wants to be an uninhibited oligarch, plain and simple.
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. I did not say I was in the Caribbean for 3 weeks, I was on a cruise ship during those 3 games. Mission legs are real, yes he came back in Spring 2023, and played catch up all of last year. But you have the same body type but what do I know. I played water polo at the D-1 level, absolutely no cardio there.
Three weeks in the Caribbean? Good for you.
Someone who always manufactures excuses and distorts reality to deflect evidence-backed criticisms of a person’s actions is the definition of an apologist. That’s exactly what your comments have been whether or not you recognize it.
Wahlin returned from his mission in May 2023 – over 1.5 yrs ago. He would’ve started getting into shape that summer. Maybe you don’t remember what it’s like for guys in their teens-early 20’s or maybe you didn’t play cardio-intensive sports at a competitive level, but metabolism is crazy high at that age and the way they practice and work out at this level of competitive sports, he would’ve been in good playing shape in a few months and in full competitive shape by six months. I say this as someone who played the sport for 25 years and has the same body type as Wahlin (ectomorph). To claim his conditioning is only now catching up is ludicrous. You are once again just making up a convenient narrative after he had two good games against bad/mediocre teams (which were preceded by several non-factor performances against good teams). For the record, I don’t think Wahlin is terrible; I just don’t think he is a starter-level player for a top-40 team, which is what I aspire this program to be. He has shown he can be decently competitive against lower level competition.
You can choose to look for the positives, but that just sounds like you’re admitting to an intentionally biased perspective. It doesn’t mean that the Smith critics are wrong about their opinions, especially when they substantiate their opinions with actual evidence and you do not.
Utah @ 
UCLA 
