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[coachmorse8]

Recruiting and building a team is an intresting thing.

We lost on Jay, but next year we have Fitts, lowell lotulelei, filipo mokofisi, Bradlee Anae/chris hart (3*) /Max Tupai (4*) that will play we also have Leki fotu, Havili-katoa, Pututau and the new signings for a true freshman to make an impack is very difficult on our D-line we have 3 all conference DL returning this year. 

 

We need speed right now I think we got faster

 

we will send 5 OL to the NFL and I believe that we have guys that will step in there as well.

 

I for one am so excited to see what our offense and our rebuild Defensive secionday can do. 

 

Top 25 recruiting class with a world class coach is much more important than a star rating.

 

 

 

 

[coachmorse8]

Utah Ute offense

                      2013                                              2014                                  2015                                                      2016

                      Yards   TD’s   PPG    Yards   TD’s   PPG                         Yards   TD’s     PPG                     Yards   TD’s     PPG

Rushing       1929      19     29.2   2475    21       31.3                         2379    24      30.6                       2526    24          30.2

Passing      2835        22               2570    20                                        2340     15                                    2603     15

 Coach talks about balance and I beleive that is going to be key going forward. I like the offesnive trend and the balance look for Utah to score 55 TD’s next year is the magic number.

Point difference

2012       1.5

2013    1.2

2014    6.4

2015    8.3

2016    6.3

I believe with the same offense and offensive coaches we will see a moderate improvement in our offensive numbers similar to the numbers we had in 2008. As we had a 4^th year coordinator in 2008.  Give Troy and the boy’s this bowl game and the spring to clean up the missed reads, dropped passes, and experience factor and Utah will be averaging 36 points a game next year with a 3000 yard passer, two 700 yard running backs and 4 receivers over 500 yards. This team will be scary good next year even if some of the close calls and games don’t go their way.

Utah is a team to fear week in and week out!!

 

Go Utes!!

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Plain and simple I’m cheering for the Utes and against everyone else. Except Washington. We recruit against colorado, washington state, and I hate U$C so it makes it pretty easy.

 

Go Utes and noone else!!

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I’m one of the biggest Utah homers of all and I thought that Thompson was the answer for Barton until it happened in the Oregon game once Barton got injured. During that last quarter Thompson was in the game and he was exposed on the TE pass down the middle and he was also exposed in the run game. He should of went to the outside shoulder of the QB when he started running to push him back to the flow of the defense for a minimal gain instead he tried to shoot a gap and he missed giving up 30 yards and there for giving Oregon a real shot to throw to the end zone. These small mistakes happen and it sucks that they do. What we need at the U are solid LB like Walker, and Martinez. Tackling machines that took proper drops in pass coverage and proper angles for containment tackles.

I’m super interested to see if Hamilton is a player.

Looking over the recruiting for the past few years, every player that is listed at the top of the class has rarely panned out (except this year.)

2016
Top 5 recruits
Bolles ( NFL potential)
Laufatasaga ( played and started a bunch of games)
Tupai ( redshirted?)
Huntley ( back- up)
Henry-Cole (burned his red shirt for a 2 yard carry)
Thomas Mcdonald ( Not on the team)

Bottom 5
Shyne (played and started)
Anae (played 1 sack)
Thompason (played)
Peck (redshirt?)
Fotu (played)

2015
Top 5
Butler byrd ( ok not awesome season)
Carter Deniko (not on the roster)
Paulo (played on Special teams)
Fulks ( potential with no hands)
Hekking ( status ?)
Marcel Brooks -Brown (7th string and left the team)

Bottom 5
Ahmad Christian (never played)
Joseph Williams ( 1178 yards in 8 games)
Tyrom smith ( 1 TD may move to DB see Colorado game)
Britain covey ( lead team in rec yards left on a mission)
Kendall Huey ( left the team)

2014
Top 5
Lotulelei ( NFL type of player)
Law ( never enrolled)
Singleton ( solid contributing Sophomore)
Godfrey ( played spearingly)
Tavaris Williams ( left the team)

Bottom 5
Tevin carter ( started both years)
casey hughes ( played on special teams for 2 years injured in the UCLA game)
Bobbie Hobbies ( played in almost every game key special teams contributor)
Khyiris Luavai ? on status
Thor Katoa ? on status

2013
top 5
Lotulelei again
vaenuku ( died on the way to campus)
shepherd ( never played)
Andre Lewis ( played sparingly)
Davion Orphey ( major contributor)

Bottom 5
Moeai (multiple year starter
Mokofisi ( multiple year starter)
dominguez ( 4 year starter)
marcus williams (left the program)
Troy McCormick ( solid contributor when healthy)

It is interesting to see how these recruiting classes come together and I love it. However, I hope that the guys (the coaches) can find kids that want to play and can play. I’m done with the hype train.

Here is the starting defense on the Sugar Bowl Team:
Kruger 2 star NFL Player
Newman (no info)
eliopo ( 2 star) Played in the NFL
Koa Misi ( 3 star ) NFL player
Derrick Shelby (2 star) NFL player
LB’s
MIke wright (no info)
Sylvester 2 star Played in the NFL
Kep Gaison (no info)
DB
Rj Stanford (3 star) Played in the NFL
Joe Dale ( 2 Star)
Robert Johnson ( 3 star) Played in the NFL
Brice McCain (2 star) NFL Player

I know Utah will do the right thing with recruiting and the coaching staff. I believe Troy will be able to had a quick passing game to the deep ball’s and I believe our Defense will get back to playing fundamental football (like 2008)

2008
we were 8th in the country in turnovers created at 2.4 per game
offense was 35 in the country at 400 yards per game

2016
we were 3rd in the country in turnovers created at 2.3 per game
offense was 58 at 427 yards oer game

the difference of these 2 years was the competition.
We love the UTES keep it up. Remember it was Ludwigs 4th year as OC in 2008 and Gary Anderson’s 4th year as DC
We had a 1st year DC in Scally and a 2nd year or 3rd depending how you look at it OC in ARod-Harding.

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thanks