OnlyU just posted in the thread about the Moa kid
It’s been pretty silent from OnlyU all summer. Is he still here and can provide some insider info?
There are others on the board to that se to have inside info but can’t think of their handles.
You absolutely ARE a zoob, and it’s as obvious as DT says!
So why DO you insist on maintaining this transparent charade? Is it because you’re extremely nervous about the national media hyping up Utah, whilst simultaneously dismissing ybu-p, so pecking out fantasies of Utah’s demise is the only catharsis you have left?
You zoobies are so dishonest, desperate, and insecure. You must really hate yourselves.
Sad zoob.
Utah should be improved. But Utah also has a much tougher schedule, at least on paper at this moment, than last year’s team. Last year’s schedule was their weakest since the MWC games and extremely favorable with only one really good opponent away from Salt Lake: ASU.
But injuries aside, and I’ve said this already, the losses to Arizona and Houston don’t sit well with me. I don’t care how incompetent Utah is on offense – they should have least beat the Wildcats at home last year and they got bullied.
I do expect improvement, tho and I trust it’ll get ’em back to a bowl game. But I also think this schedule is going to be harder and likely result in only a game or two improvement overall.
From my perspective, I’m expecting 6-6 or 7-5 and I hope one of those six or seven wins is against BYU.
I would give the OLine, linebackers, safeties a passing grade. Pass or fail only
Qb, RB,TE, WR, DT, DE, CB an incomplete because we don’t know for sure. They should all pass I don’t see any failures.
My biggest concern will be depth at many positions. Special teams can’t be any worse than last year. Same can be said for the whole offense.
two of the most misused and misunderstood terms in today’s football.
Spread: refers to alignment of eligible receivers. Many think that it refers to an offensive philosophy but it’s really not. It’s best understood when used in conjunction with the word “box” that you will hear a lot on broadcasts. When the offense is lined up, imagine you are looking from a satellite view straight overhead. If you were to draw two lines from end zone to end zone that are on the outside shoulder of where the Tight End would normally line up, and then draw two lines from sideline to sideline 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, the inside area of those lines is what is considered the “box”. Then you count the number of offensive players inside that box or directly offset like Utah likes to do with their TE’s. If it is 7 or less you are in a Spread, if it’s 8 or more you are in a Tight formation. Under Ludwig, Utah ran out of Tight roughly 3/4 of the time. Under Taylor, it was Spread at about the same %. And the only thing keeping those %’s under 90 is situations like 3rd and 1 or 3rd and Long where you will run a specific package other than your base offense.
RPO: is a play where the QB has the option to handoff, run himself or Pass. When run correctly, you should not be able to tell the difference between a straight run call, run option, play action pass or an RPO. The only true indicator of whether the play was called to be a run or a pass is the release of the OLine since they cannot go more than 3 yards downfield before the ball is thrown. The exception would be if the ball is thrown behind the Line of Scrimmage (Screen pass).
Without knowing the actual play call most of us go with catchall’s like Spread and RPO for what we are seeing / just saw. But it’s kind of like the neighborhood call at 2nd base. You just have to get close to get credit.
I heard a recent audio clip of Whitt saying the team is switching to a spread offensive system. What were we before? What is the difference?
I know that Jason Beck likes to call run-pass option plays. Are these plays only called in a spread?
Also, when I hear people talk about RPO-heavy offense, they act like it’s a nearly-extinct play style, only used by service academies. Why is that the case? It seems pretty effective with a mobile QB.
Just look for the following…
1. Brand new “UteHub” account
UteHub had been around for years, as have most of the posters here. We don’t see many “new” posters, so when we do (see #2)…
2. Content
If the vast majority of their comments are either “pro-ybu” or “downsliding Utah”, you know they’re a zoob. Also, the Ute fans on here comment on a wide variety of topics. Only zoobies can’t pull themselves away from the Utah-ybu series.
3. Logic fails
That one should be self-explanatory.
NIL is quickly becoming the equivalent of tipping. When the waiter is deciding how much of a surcharge I should be willing to pay on top of the meal I ordered, I lose interest in the product. Because let’s be honest: bringing me a menu, writing down my order and bringing me my food takes the same skillset whether at Denny’s or a Michelin restaurant. And I’d be just as happy walking to the counter to place my own order and walk it back to the table myself whether it’s a burger or a $100 cut of Kobe beef. So why should the amount I pay for the same service differ based on the restaurant I’m at?
For me, my level of fanhood is going to be the same whether Utah plays with the big boys or drops to a lower level and avoids all of this NIL / Pay for Play / are they students or are they employees nonsense. And the more people tell me to open my wallet to get a “better” experience, the more I remember all of the times the waiter interrupted a conversation I was having and say to myself, “I’m just as good with a grill as these people are and the only asshat I have to deal with is me.” So why am I subsidizing people I don’t care about and who think I’m nothing more than an ATM?
Utah @ 
UCLA 
