2008 National Champ

I’m not bashing OnlyU here but he doubled and tripled down on both Rising and Kuithe playing in the Florida game. So I’m in agreement that the messaging in the program that was getting to him was obviously flawed when viewed in retrospect.

What many of us are struggling with is why was it so flawed? And were the assumptions made reasonable…[Read more]

Let’s see, the coaching staff constructs the roster and determines who is best qualified to play each week. As injuries happen, the “next man up” is inserted into the lineup and the game plan must be altered accordingly to put the player, who by definition is not as qualified as the person he is replacing, in the best position to succeed. If…[Read more]

Tony – we talked on email last year when I was having the same issue. It’s been great since until the last week when I’ve had a couple of posts reply to OP instead of the post intended. I’m hoping it’s just an issue of the increased traffic the last couple of weeks because I’ve also noticed longer than normal load times when opening up a thread…[Read more]

In truth, going into the season with Barnes should have been enough. If Rose and/or Johnson beats him out, even better. Barnes is in his 3rd year in the program and they know exactly what he can and can’t do. It might not have looked pretty, but it should never have been bottom 6 offense in the nation bad.

That’s the bigger issue because you…[Read more]

That might be sound reasoning in an air raid offense, it’s an excuse for not playing them yet this year. Ty Jordan didn’t play because he was an exceptional pass blocker.

Utah has played freshmen every year at RB since 2016. Hard to believe Ganther isn’t able to get them to do what he needs, especially considering what’s left in the room.

I went to the 2017 game and didn’t have any issues. Got tickets the day before – 45 yard line, about 15 rows up, on the visitors side. They were putting in the new soccer stadium so the parking situation is probably different. We got there about 4pm for a 5:30 start and got great parking in the structure there. Either the structure or soccer…[Read more]

Third) it is half-heartedly acknowledged as truth and the same people who were ridiculed in phases one and two are told they should move on and stop making a big deal of it

This is each their final year of eligibility so they would both have to apply for a medical. If anything, I would say that Rising has the better chance due to having to sit out 2019 while other QB’s were given a waiver.

Kuithe played every possible game from 2018 through his injury in 2022, 4 1/3 years. Rising has played 2 years and one quarter…[Read more]

By my math, normal return window would then be mid-November to mid-January. Expectations of a return to competition at any point during camp, the 5 games already played, or even this weekend would have been unrealistic given the nature of the injury.

If the surgery was performed on January 25, we are still roughly 6 weeks short of the low range.

gotta admit, I have no idea who Johan is. Auto correct for Tafuna?

Utah doesn’t have any Wide Receivers on the roster. They have:

Inline Tight Ends
Slot Tight Ends
Tight Ends who split out wide
Tight Ends who play the H

CAL has played 3 different QB’s this season. Apparently it is a huge strategic advantage to make your opponent prepare for multiple QB’s so I’m not sure how Utah will be able to cope.,,

That is specifically what the people who you are telling don’t know what they are talking about have been saying for weeks.

It’s not even the first time Cristobal has done that. While at Oregon in 2018, he had a late lead against Stanford and instead of kneeling it out, had Verdell take a carry. Verdell fumbled, Stanford kicked a field goal to send it into overtime and the got the only score to win.

Challenge accepted!

Record following losses excluding 2023 and all end of season losses w/o a follow up game until the next season: 43-26 (.621). Whitt’s overall winning % is .678 so it is a fallacy that his teams perform better after a loss. Of those wins, 5 came in bowl games, two were against FCS schools and the end of the season game…[Read more]

He needed to take advantage of his ops now that they’ve resigned Taylor.

No confusion at all. This is a place for all opinions, or at least I think it is.

In my eyes it’s completely ignorant to say the coaches were “wrong” for not picking up a transfer.

That is your opinion. Mine is different. You have your reasons and I have mine. All we know is what happened and to reiterate from my above, neither of us ca…[Read more]

There are two Whitt’s. There is the game is close until the 4th quarter or Utah has the lead. And then there is behind in the 4th quarter Whitt.

4th quarter Whitt allows an largely untested backup with 7 career passing attempts take over in the 4th quarter against Baylor and throw 5 passes on the game tying drive. Ludwig doesn’t change his…[Read more]

I swore to myself that I would let this go. But since I’ve never let anything go in my life, let me tell you a story about just 1 of the QB’s on that list you aren’t impressed by.

After the 2021 season, a kid named Jack Plummer entered the transfer portal. In three years at Purdue, he had your typical backup QB stats. Usually didn’t play…[Read more]

And imagine how good anyone on that list would become once the QB Whisperer got his hands on them. After what he did with Huntley in 2019, he can make any scrub all-conference 🙂