Charlie

ESPN thinks everything is Eastern Time.

In the past, starters have played. The exception would be those that are nicked up with nagging injuries or in recovery from off season procedures. They usually give way soon to the 2s,3s and 4s. Players new to Utah usually play a bit more to get a read for contact with an audience I would guess. But there is a need to exercise those that are…[Read more]

Do the 3 and a half. Andre could be part time during the season, working with guards.

I would expect that for the most part the current players will test the portal to gain info to evaluate against the now unknown opportunity at Utah. I expect that some will likely choose to remain. But with the coaching turnover, it is like beginning the recruitment process except that other options will have a head start before the Utah coaching…[Read more]

I think we are in a better place with NIL and feel the biggest reasons for leaving Utah is to move down from the Big-12 to find more playing time or having played well can make a better team. Utah will still be a destination better than lesser conferences. One factor to consider is the likelihood that Utah will be better next year and will have…[Read more]

You noted the problem that can be brushed over. Coaches work and hope to get or develop a star player and leader like Rising that can expand the capability of the football team. And it is hard to recruit a quality backup behind a star. But when such a player develops health issues, it is natural for the team to pull for the return rather than take…[Read more]

Beck is new to me but he appears to have 2 welcomed aspects. His history seems to be tuned into making a plan around what his players can do as opposed to getting them to fit his plan. Second, he appears to be open to methods beyond the common and typical. If my impressions are right, and I don’t have much at all to go on, Beck may create an…[Read more]

Actually, we need to give Whitt more credit. The last few years have been awful, no doubt. But I stop and ask: how many coaches have better overcome the numbers of injuries at the QB position? Very few of the top teams have quality QBs in the 2 and 3 spot. Very few keep running along starting the #4 or #5. We could do better at backup QBs but we…[Read more]

You do both, to fail to do one or the other has problems.

Would not take any off the list, several others could be added.

Quite odd timing. I would think his next best step would be to go thru a spring practice somewhere. Did he measure the room with one day of practice? I think there are a couple of spots open in the CB room, I wonder if he saw several in front of him. I am looking forward to seeing what Cotton and Saunders will do. Does anyone know if the spring…[Read more]

Myself, I think the offense had more potential than we saw last year. I think we were trying to resolve the unknown issue to us that led to Ludwig’s departure. Beck is a fresh start. The OL has the potential of our great OLs, which is a good starting point. We do have a QB and OC going into their second year together. We don’t know IW’s eventual…[Read more]

Agree and disagree. The win against the Y is our biggest. They are playing well right now. However, I have always insisted the Y draws fewer sports fans, football and basketball, than Utah to their home games. I have attended dozens of both football and basketball Utah games in Provo. There are many souls at each game but few that understand the…[Read more]

I just got back into the country and restarted a news feed. I can’t believe we have a chance to upgrade our Men’s BB program to Alex Jensen. That and even the possibility that Andre Miller would help out would be almost like having Rick come back. I hope Utah has financial resources to make this all happen.

I agree. To answer the question what does it take to make the tournament, Utah would have to go on a streak wining out with exception of Az and do something in the conference tournament. All those games are possible but we could also lose any of them. I would say we need to consistently play at our best level, something we have not been able to do…[Read more]

Remind me, didn’t the 12 send 8 teams last year? It’s very possible Utah is swirling around the cutoff currently. Win at UCF before a loss to UofA, and the rest of the games are winnable. We do need to play decent in the conference tournament to make something happen.

This is the answer… The players should have stayed after coach K was let go.

Pretty much the FT issue is Lovering, not so much the team. It is several games now that others are more than happy to foul him to try to come back. They are more than willing to not guard him at all on the outside giving him a 5 on 4 to try to find a pass since he does not shoot much from the outside. The dilemma is he is our best inside defender…[Read more]

One change I am hoping to see is an offense that relies on execution without needing mystery each week. I would love to see practice open to fans to watch sometimes. An attitude of sure you have seen all that we do but all the way up to two seconds after the snap there still remains more than one thing we may be doing and you must hesitate to be…[Read more]

Kansas never led in the game while Utah had bright spots. To begin the year if I could see two wins I would have picked the Y and Kansas who was #1 for the first month of the season. Sadly, if we just had Carlson or a 5 that can score we would be just fine this year. Thankfully, we were treated to a very entertaining game tonight. Lovering was…[Read more]