2008 National Champ

I still think it is a case of reading into it what you want to. By your standard, Troy Williams was voted captain so he must have been a better leader than Huntley. Even though the team performed better with Huntley at the helm in 2017.

Not everyone has the same style. And there are plenty of instances where someone successful moves to a…[Read more]

Leadership issues is a bit strong. All that has been reported/intimated is that Rising has a different style of leadership than Brewer.

When Rising wasn’t running the team any better than Brewer against WSU, there really wasn’t any indication that his style was a better fit. Rising is getting a lot of credit for USC but I would say the team…[Read more]

Agreed. There is no such thing as the perfect game in football. Just handle you business and see what happens. You only need to be one point better than the opponent.

Stop the run, keep Daniels in the pocket, don’t get beat on the back end. It’s not a secret on how to beat a mobile QB.

There is a definite logjam at DT – as well as every other position. Togiai moved to O-Line this year and Utah should be getting Tanavasu back from his mission (assuming he resigns).

Not to mention that Moala might be eligible for a medical redshirt if he doesn’t play again in 2021.

3?

don’t make him explain the joke, it demeans the art

I didn’t fault Williams for calling the timeout. As long as there is still time on the clock, anything can happen. Think back to 2008 against Oregon State (the only game I’ve turned off before the final whistle) where Utah got two scores in the last minute. Williams needs to coach his team exactly as he did.

The difference was that Whitt…[Read more]

They’ve had some injuries so it is probably closer to 7 or 8. Although, at this point in the season, I’m not really sure how much that stat should matter anymore. When you’ve got half the season under your belt, that is a better sample to evaluate from.

Pass rush Lloyd did fine but he kept giving up the edge on the run plays in the first half.

For this game, I’d rather see Lloyd as the spy 75% of the time on Daniels. If Utah can keep ASU between the tackles, they should be able to handle the run. It is the threat of Daniels keeping plays alive with his feet whether on RPO’s, designed runs,…[Read more]

Yes, Rising was the key on Saturday. His ball placement kept the drives going and opened everything up for the rest of the offense. Howard’s catch was another that was thrown right where it needed to be.

The question becomes, is Rising the QB who completes around 60% of his passes like he had prior to USC or was the USC game a new standard that…[Read more]

You’ve got the wording of the rule correct on making contact with the receiver but not the spirit. If you are the receiver running your route and I as the DB can keep myself in stride with you, there is a lot of contact that is allowable by both of us. As long as the contact isn’t a push or obvious pull of the jersey, I would be allowed to…[Read more]

That call surprised me also. I thought it was going to either be that the receiver stepped out of bounds and then came back on or offensive PI.

I’d never heard of a DB using the sideline to his advantage being a penalty. In fact, I taught all my DB’s to deliberately work the receiver out of bounds whenever they took a sideline release. Never…[Read more]

I didn’t see SC give up.

The difference in this game was Scalley finally being willing to drop as many into coverage as he could. Not getting beat deep kept Utah in it until Rising starting dropping dimes all over the field.

The game got lopsided but SC never quit.

Orgeron is on the hot seat at LSU which has at least as much talent as SC.

hmmm. I definitely saw him and it looked like he was coming off the field for a lineup change. maybe he had stepped onto the field to congratulate someone and the camera timing messed me up. thanks.

Enis played. I saw him blocking in the first half but he didn’t get any targets.

I never saw Dixon. Has he entered his name in the portal again or just hurt?

Am I one of the ones you are referencing?

The things that I have been talking about all year looked much better last night. I’m very happy that the offense had perhaps its best game since 2018 (opponent weighted). I’m not in the coaches meetings so I don’t know if it was play-calling, execution, opponents scheme, etc but it was nice to see. Is…[Read more]

2 drives they’ve screwed around with plays at the LOS and gone 3 and out. 3 drives they’ve pushed it downfield to receivers and have 21 points.

Love that Rising is willing to throw downfield today. Good things can happen

and doesn’t give up 71?