2008 National Champ

I wouldn’t forget and would gladly take the downvotes for it. At this point, bringing back Rising is like going all in every hand when you are losing at the poker table. At best you’re hoping to break even with one good result so that you can pretend all the losing hands before didn’t happen.

Why do so many feel the need to throw some form of this qualifier, he will be great in the future I’m sure, in with any criticism of Wilson?

He could end up great, he could end up a bust. He’s got 3 more years of college to become whatever he will be. But I’m struggling to understand why we all have to pretend that a below average QB, so far, i…[Read more]

You’re conflating things. The Utah Legislature is not the NCAA.

The NCAA has the power, or at least had the power, to enforce any of its rules against member schools of which USC was one. The California Legislature didn’t revoke any football titles from SC for breaking NCAA rules.

Unless there has been an audit that I am unaware of, not…[Read more]

regardless of their “private” school status, should BYU get audited the way Utah was to hold BYU accountable for how they’re using their NIL program?

No, they shouldn’t. It smacked of conflict of interest when the audit was done but a state supported school has different rules than a private school does.

Thanks Tony for linking! You don’t get enough credit for keeping the lights on and the trains running

Same reason people go back to the same place for a vacation, to the same bar they picked up a girl once before.,, trying to recreate something that is not recreate-able (probably not a word).

Rising and Whitt have each provided great things. Those are really good memories. Now is the time to create new memories, not chase the past ones.

I feel like we’re in this weird limbo period where eventually FBS will stratify into the NFL-lite division and the college division. I personally have no interest in the NFL-lite division but would follow Utah if they got in. But I’m not going to watch it, seek it out, or otherwise contribute my hard earned dollars just because TV execs think…[Read more]

If:

Utah plays Whitt ball – long drives, winning TO battle, get the lead and milk the clock – Utah wins 21 to 18

Utah doesn’t, this will get 2010 TCU bad

Unfortunately, that’s probably career ending. He’s played in 12, 14, 13 and 8 games his 4 years so neither a redshirt or medical are available. Maybe he’s shows out on pro day and gets a UDFA but that would be a really long shot.

Tuttle may have actually been the canary in the coal mine. He was on the leadership council and the rumor, never confirmed that I know of, was that he left because he saw players being held to different standards as far as behavior. He left the team so early in the season and I just never bought the excuse that it was because he wanted to play…[Read more]

ALL IN OR IN THE WAY doesn’t work with mercenaries. Maybe you can have that attitude when a kid who commits either spends 5 years doing it your way or calls it a career. But if you are changing out 25-33% of your team yearly in the portal, you’d better be able to manage their expectations instead of just your own

Rising had been separated from the team for a lot longer than since this latest injury. Guys will keep their mouths shut about one player getting the most money and attention when the team is winning. But that doesn’t mean they like or dislike the guy. Once things start going bad is when you find out how many different factions there really are…[Read more]

I know of one who didn’t

He shouldn’t be. Bob’s Used Car Lot should be able to pay any player on the Utes roster they want to.

First I’ve heard about his sister dying so I’m only going by the history available at the time

Thanks. The poor plays were coming so fast it was hard to remember the order

You’ve cracked the code. The problem the last 2 years has been lack of fan support

Joe Williams quit the team in 2016 because he couldn’t hang onto the ball. 4 weeks later, after all of the other scholarship backs were injured, he came back and fumbles weren’t an issue anymore. Thomas also overcame the early yips.

That’s probably the easiest thing to fix with a RB. You can’t teach them to like contact, pass blocking takes…[Read more]

it does take away from the “stayed committed” part of @UTE98‘s post though