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[ThurstonW]

Pulo brothers have decommitted from UCLA and now show “warm” for UTES, “cool” on everyone else…

FINGERS CROSSED!!!

[TheNuschler]

That would be most welcome….

[Mark Swalburg]

I’d love their commitment and they should be super easy to get considering they grew up big Utah fans. But honestly I expect them to go to BYU. Why in the world would they come to our program right now? We are moving in the wrong direction, and not to mention our pass game is always terrible. I’m sure they want to actually win and have fun in college so I bet BYU is the place unfortunately.

[Kellso]

That’s funny. You are not looking MENSA worthy.

[Tednab]

Nah .. A-aron sucks as a OC that’s why we got rid of him. Beck is the new kid on the block

[Charlie]

I think that would be the perspective if you had been following local college football for only a few years. A longer perspective would note that it has been since the 80s that the Y has dominated Utah offensively. Only the last two years has the Utah offense been unproductive and that was due to Rising’s injury and the inability to field an adequate backup. Even just an adequate QB1 can change that problem. One of the best pieces to turn around an offense is a great OL because we have observed before a great OL make an average OB or RB look great. My key question is can Beck’s offense remain productive after a move to a P4 conference.

Utah does not have a big hill to climb. The level we needed to win the Pac is not needed to win the Big-12. A simple return to the level of a competitive 4th place Pac team will win the Big-12. Last years ASU or Y teams, as an example, would not have finished in the top half of the Pac before the breakup. Remove our QB issue and Utah’s floor was/is still in the top half of the old Pac. Now we no longer have a couple of top teams to face in the regular season.

In most seasons Utah has had a noteworthy QB and receiver and very much a fun offense to watch. HS athletes can have a limited perspective with emphasis on the last one or two years. However, many can note a direction for a team that looks beyond the injury to a single player. I think the smart money will view Utah’s direction as bigger than defined by the last two years. The acid test comes this year as Rising’s injury is removed and Beck’s offense is added to the equation. On defense, I mostly see usual year to year holes to fill.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

You’ve already been outed as a zoob. There’s nowhere to go here anymore. All you’re doing now is embarrassing ybu-p, by proving just how “imaginary” your self-proclaimed “higher standards” really are.

[D T]

Why do you zoobs post here, mark swalburg?

[BeachUte]

You forgot:

Anyway, Go UTES‼️

[J Rocksville]

lol, yes when I think of “fun” and “college” BYU is definitely top of that iceberg.

[Sanders]

I take that as a clue that this will be Witt’s last dance.

[BeachUte]

Assuming you mean this recruiting class? I do think Whitt is close to retirement regardless how things go. In fact, I suspect he was going to ride off into the sunset before things went south last year. He fully expected to win the Big 12 and go the playoffs, a nice swan song into retirement.

But last year’s putrid result forced a change. He wasn’t going out on that sour of a note. So, he’s back another year. Problem is, Utah probably will only be marginally better record-wise than last year’s team due to an improvement in scheduling this year. I think they get to a bowl game but I’m not sure they win more than 7 or 8 games – and I’m not sure 8-5 satisfies Whitt enough to retire, especially since next year’s team will probably be better (assuming there isn’t a mass exodus in talent) and he may see 2026 as the year 2024 should have been… then he can retire.

If Utah goes 5-7 again? I think he’s nudged into retiring.

But I suspect he’s here at least two more years.

[RoboUte]

“He fully expected to win the Big 12 and go the playoffs”

I don’t think he’s that stupid. But then again I also think a football team needs a quarterback, so Whitt and I clearly don’t always agree.

[BeachUte]

I don’t think it was stupid at all. Utah was the near-consensus last year to win the Big 12. I think that’s exactly what he expected was the likely outcome of the season.

[RoboUte]

Are you suggesting that our head coach had no more information that would suggest our team was a disaster than the average sports pundit?

[BeachUte]

I’m saying Whitt had very high expectations for Utah entering 2024 and it was a big reason he even came back after the 2022 season (everything was predicated on a healthy Cam, which he didn’t get in 2023 but fully expected in 2024).

Whitt fully bought into the idea that Utah was the favorite to win the Big 12 last year and make the playoffs. Had they done that, he was set to hang it up.

[RoboUte]

Right, so Whittingham had no idea what he was about to field. Do you understand how concerning that is if you believe it’s true?

[BeachUte]

No? I think we can all agree that the 2024 season would have gone dramatically different for Utah if Rising didn’t get injured vs Baylor.

No coach is going to have a full and clear understanding of how things will go if they lose their best player.

If you want to be critical of Whitt over something, be critical of the fact he put all his eggs in the Cam Basket the last two seasons and failed developing a competent QB situation – not that he expected 2022-like results with a healthy Cam. He had plenty of reason to trust that if Cam remained healthy, Utah would live up to the preseason hype.

[DallasUte78]

I think this is the last year for Coach Whit as HC but believe he will stay on staff in a “CEO” type role for 3-5yrs.

[BeachUte]

I don’t think so. Whitt isn’t likely to settle going out with a pretty average team, especially with 2026 being a solid-expected team.

Unless Utah major surprises and wins the Big 12, I think Whitt will see it through 2026. Just hard imagining him retiring on a 8-5 or 7-6 note and that’s likely what Utah is looking at this year.

[Trailgoat]

Under KW’s recent contract amendment we’ll know by 12/8 or 12/12-(if Utah is in the B12 championship) whether KW is staying for another year or not. His special advisor contract under the amendment was pushed to a two year $3.5 million
yearly contract term from the original 5 year, $995K yearly payout. Smart move by KW and UofU. KW has stated he would not coach past 65 y/o. I hope Utah has a solid year so KW can go out on a well deserved good note. Kw’s successfully lead the program through some very tough waters over the past five years. From a player investment stand point, Utah not shelling out a bunch of cash for unproven H.S. recruits is good business. Rewarding the in house good players and strategically paying for players in the portal you need seems to be a good strategy in the current landscape.

Will be interesting to see how Utah distributes the revenue sharing. Guessing football, mens BB, and gymnastics get the most. Skiing, woman’s BB or other Title IX sports get the remaining crumbs. I don’t know how colleges from an operational cost stand point are going to justify dumping money into non-revenue (nice way of saying financial liability) sports. One of many story lines in today’s changing college sports landscape.

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