2008 National Champ

Say what you want about Barnes, his losses came against a playoff team and 2 other teams that won 10 games each.

designed, long developing rollout. that was a two-point play, not a please get me some breathing room play

I was counting that game. Should Utah lose tonight, both teams would be 0-4 since that day.

The Glover run came after I hit submit

You won’t see progress this year. That’s too much to expect. 2nd year is when you should start seeing him change his game from what he got away with in high school to what he needs to do in college

I can’t proclaim myself a genius if I admit that someone else also noticed the obvious. Sheesh Tony 🙂

I am curious about how many football championships are won by coaches that have been in place several years vs coaches that are new replacements.

Saban won so many that you have to go back a long ways. Off the top of my head though, the Miami coaches all seemed to do it in their 2nd or 3rd year. Meyer won his at Florida in his 2nd and 4th year.…[Read more]

Why can’t there be an Urban Meyer waiting to come to Utah?

I cited Prince based on what I thought your previous post was referring to: what happened with the coach who took over the first time Snyder stepped down?

Yes, anything other than what happens is speculation. And anything that might happen in the future is based on subjective probability and nothing more.

I feel like I keep having to repeat…[Read more]

weird that a duplicate post showed up an hour later

I swear I read every post again twice and didn’t see it. Mea culpa

I thin you mean the Ron Prince years of 2006 – 2008. For context, Snyder went 4-7, 5-6 in ’04/’05. Which was well down from exactly 11 wins in 6 of the 7 years from 1997-2003. I was living in Kansas at the time and can personally attest that local sports radio was calling for Snyder’s head. Prince then went 7-6, 5-7, 5-7 which got him fired.…[Read more]

I thought we already were a support group?

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I’m missing something. Didn’t you just use those terms? Surely you aren’t suggesting that you are the only one allowed to use hyperbole to make a point.,, Are you?