My coaching wants:

[Utah]

HC – Whitt – as long as he wants

OC – Harding

QB – I like that Taylor idea. 

RB – Fred Whitt

TE – Harding

OL – New OL coach/Tim Davis

Keep the defense the same. 

ST – Whitt

 

I give full reigns to Harding. Taylor comes as only the OC becuase we were paying ARod and Erickson over $900,000 last year. Taylor gets PAID. Hell, throw $300,000 at Taylor and $600,000 at Tim Davis. Get Davis back, because…ass moves mass, amiright? 

[sweetgrass]

I wish we could have witnessed Norm Chow with Wilson and Booker and Joe and Troy Williams. I still believe Utah needs to switch back from a spread to a power running game like Stanford and USC.

[Utah]

I used to be on the “pro style” offense bandwagon but I’m slowly hopping off for a couple reasons:

1 – I don’t think we will ever be able to recruit a QB good enough to run a pro style offense here at Utah. It’s one thing to recruit a kid to USC with the kid knowing he won’t play for 2-3 years. That will be a lot harder to do here at Utah. 

2 – Having a QB be a part of the run game changes the way defenses defend you. You make your offense exponentially harder to defend against. 

3 – There aren’t any kids that would come to Utah that play pro-style offenses in high school. 

4 – Having a mobile QB changes everything for you offensively. It changes the whole defensive philosophy. It opens the run game up. It opens the pass game up. It makes everything easier. 

[Puget Ute]

Taylor was a high school coach until last year. They shouldn’t need to throw $300k to get him. But he may well be an excellent QB coach, as he showed with Gave Gubrud this year.

[Utah]

I’ve heard some say he would only come here to be OC. My $300,000 quote was making a point that there are many reasons why he’d jump to be our QB coach. 

[Puget Ute]

Not sure I want a coach with 1 year of experience as co-OC at the college level (FCS at that) to be our OC. I would prefer Wyomings OC to that. But then again, that would be the most Whittingham thing to do.

Harding has significantly more experience already, and at the P5 level.

[Puget Ute]

My Google-fu is weak. Troy Taylor played QB at Cal and for the Jets in the early 90s, and coached at Colorado and Cal before his high school stint. He is much better than I gave him credit for. My bad, throw him the money and fix our damn offense!

[Utemachine]

Honest question. The co-OC things has always bothered me. Why does Kyle go this route? It implies he can’t make up his mind at the OC position which would fit his 9 OC track record.