What I have not liked. I expected more and better big men to come thru Utah, Larry should have been able to recruit them. Larry’s teams have been turnover pron. Not so much from over agressiveness, more from mental lapses. I would like to see more timeouts that turn a game, or generate good plays coming out of timeouts. I would like to see more plays run out of end outs. Losing players like Gach. I hate not being involved in post season play.
What I forgive. Coming in second with so many big recruits. We want him to try and there is pleanty to suspect of the winners we lost to. Loosing Daniels was needed for locker room chemistry. Loosing Lohner seemed connected to his dad’s employment. We had a string of losses due to Jantunuen’s absence.
What I have liked. I think it is a good move, if you are a bit grumpy old school, to recruit international players. They have a better work ethic and accept coaching a bit different. I think this strategy bumped our talent. Bringing in Donny to address the same.
Each year we have a significant talent gap with 2, 3, teams. That will be more difficult to fix than we think. We just are not at the point that we will be one of the most talented teams in the Pac, and it is a long shot that will change with a new coach. But that is not to say we could not do better. I don’t think the average Pac coach flip will help us. To improve we need a much above average coach flip.
Of all the years to ring up an extra investment, this year is not. This is a year you make do with the old car. As to the team, Utah’s team may be one that will improve. Two international players coming in (wish I knew more about Stefanoic but Thelissen looks awesome), I expect Plumber to stay, and Allen is 50/50 to stay improve his draft chances. Not sure many Pac teams will keep all their keys and add. I expect Harlen may kick the can, leave the decision to 2022 and create questions letting Larry go into his last year. Larry should not have a single complaint, we have bought and paid for that.
could be like the Logan Fano predictions — 100% a Ute until he wasnt.
He’s a D end. So I doubt LB recruiting played any role. Bummer though. Not as many high profile Utah state HS players have gone BYU over Utah lately.
I’ll be shocked to see him go anywhere other than BYU-p
I thought we ran a nickel base d predominantly. 2 lbs is the same tho
That would suck but I’d still take Carlton and Van over fano
Maybe he just feel like he needs another 4 years of high school ball?
It’s possible. He is a sign and send though. He was a BYU guy the very beginning and I guess they came on strong for him in the end. Good pick up for them. Unfortunately for him, he’ll have to play against the Utes.
The recruiting sites have all switched their predictions from Utah to BYU. Too bad if so. I wonder if our signing of great LBs this class influenced his decision.
Not sure about Fano but most still think he’s a Utah lean. Gonna be close though. He’s a sign and send so doesn’t really affect this class much.
We had some positives yesterday but most were non-travel guys and a coach. As long as it’s not worse today we’ll be fine.
