[OffensiveLineEnthusiast]

Are you sure? That seems unlikely to me, because

-The first picture is from the Iowa State pregame entrance, and you can clearly see all three other players wearing the same outfit, even matching shoes. This is coordinated. And I doubt that the media manager of the football team said “Hey everybody, for the Iowa State pregame wear that hoodie from that club that a lot of you are a part of!” That wouldn’t work, because some guys wouldn’t have it.

-Scalley is wearing it in my second picture. I’ve seen Whitt wearing it. As you can see for yourself on their website, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has stated beliefs that contradict what the Mormon church believes. I do not think that these Mormon guys–when there are undoubtedly Mormon campus communities around–would start repping a group that does not even consider them Christian.

[Utegator]

While agree he prefers keeping the defense on the field. He (or ludwick) made decisions that went our offense going 3 and out on, literally every down.

[Bob]

Ute football has lost in almost every measurable way over the past two years. Injuries, recruiting, transfers, conference realignment, and of course, actual game losses. I try to stay optimistic but I feel like we’re in a bizarro world right now. There has been an uptick in hype over the past month with several “experts” and oddsmakers touting the Utes as bouncing all the way back to a conference championship. I’ll believe it when I see it, but those same experts were saying Moa would end up in Utah with some touting 100% confidence. It feels like we are at a turning point where things need to change fast or Utah football is going to fall into oblivion.

[BeachUte]

I hate to say it but it feels like pure hubris all around has cost Utah – from the coaches, to the players and to the fans. It’s been an awful look since Utah was forced into the Big 12. Our fans thumped their chest, Whitt hinted at Utah not being a permanent member of the Big 12 (when he made that comment about expecting Utah and UCLA to play again due to conference alignment changing again) and so many people suggesting Utah was on deck for the Big 10. Well I’m guessing any interest from that side has cooled significantly. On top of that, the hubris of coaching, specific to the vquarterback position, has really set Utah back. And all of this at the worst possible time since there’s already a huge amount of uncertainty in college football right now and the teams poised to take advantage of it are the ones with some level of stability and success, which boggles the mind because that was Utah up until 2023.

It just shows how rapidly everything can come undone. We just gotta hope it can be fixed just as rapidly… but I’m not so sure. Utah feels broken right now.

[NarfUte]

It’s not team issued gear. It’s FCA (which is a campus community) gear. Those coaches and players are wearing it since they’re part of the community- a huge portion of the athletes at the U are also a part of it

[2008 National Champ]

I’ve been saying since Utah got in to the Pac-12 that it’s unbelievable that Utah is the only school that brings in WR’s and they ALL underperform. All you have to do is look at a school like WSU where they routinely bring in high 2*, low 3 *’s and they become all conference. It’s not the skill level of the player, it’s how you utilize them. And since Utah has only been interested in downfield blockers for the last 15+ years, it’s no wonder that room has consistently underwhelmed in the passing game.

[Central Coast Ute]

There is no more developing 3 stars. If a kid is good, you put him on the field. If not, you cut him and bring in someone from the portal to take his place. Doesn’t sound nice but it’s what the players wanted. Morgan Scalley even said the other day development is a thing of the past. You can’t put all of that time and energy into a kid just to have him bail for another school.

[BeachUte]

I’ll also throw out that Utah doesn’t have the financial luxury of developing a player anymore. You can’t invest all the time and energy taking a three-star recruit and turning them into an all-conference star because other programs are going to throw a ton of green their way and Utah likely won’t be able to compete with a lot of them. They for sure will keep some but what we saw this last off-season will be the norm: unheralded players blowing up and getting picked off. To be fair, Utah will do it to some poor program too.

But we’ve got to be of the mindset that a new recruit is here for two seasons and two seasons only. You can’t be developing them for those two seasons or you’re getting very little in return at that point. And if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll get two more seasons out of them.

[Utah#1]

It doesn’t hurt and you shouldn’t be shocked. Some people on here weeks ago told me to go pound sand and kick rocks when I said, this dude isn’t worth wasting time over. If he wanted to play at Utah he woulda committed already, but he kept changing his commit date. They had predictions on X Twitter that he was like 93% to Utah. When he didn’t commit and kept changing his dates, those X Twitter posts disappeared. Don’t know why some of us Utah fans put a lot faith in these kid coming to Utah when the writing was on the wall. Something about Tennessee lured him there whether it was NIL money, Tennessee, his family, who knows. I think two subpar coaching seasons by Whitt and the moved to the Big12 hurt Utah more than some of us care to admit. Last season the seven games we lost were winnable games even with Wilson at the helm, but that ain’t gonna get it done. Losing Rising a true leader hurt the program and we had no backup QB leader to fill those shoes. Hope with this new OC and offensive personnel, they can return to back to their winning ways again.

[Yergensen]

Huh? With that logic we shouldn’t take most of the players we take from the portal.

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