2008 National Champ

least amount of pressure possible for the position. Utah continues scoring under 20 ppg, it’s the last guys fault and it was too broken for him to fix during the season. Utah gets up around 30 ppg the rest of the season, he gets a shiny new contract.

The only way you make this move during the season is if you are acknowledging that staying the…[Read more]

125th in punt return average (3.43) and tied for 113th in kick return average (16.5). Better off fair catching everything than risking a muff at this point

just having an offensive player go somewhere the defensive player doesn’t expect would be 300% improvement. And you’ll start to see speed and separation at the same time. 4.3 guys who run 6 yards and stand around look pretty much the same as 4.6 guys

a urinalist not doing their research? say it isn’t so

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Unless you were going to hire Seth Littrell, your only option(s) was(were) internal.

google John Donovan

sounds more like the old joke where the smartest person from place A moved to place B and lowered the IQ for both places.

I agree that mediocre is a step up from the last 3 weeks. I’m not sure it’s the monumental step that some want it to be so I will remain cautiously optimistic knowing that there is very little anyone can do in the short-term…[Read more]

In the middle of a major coaching change you want to discuss why a different team than Utah should be unhappy if they get snubbed for another team not named Utah?

we’re supposed to overlook anything that could be construed as a negative. BEST HIRE EVER is apparently the only acceptable response. Amazing how quick this went from worst offense in 40 years to all of the problems have been solved with a single announcement.

so the Northwestern Bio is wrong. It appears they are only referring to the schools he coached at before his Northwestern stint which did not match up with his previous success.

your math doesn’t work. he spent 4 years at Northwestern and never averaged higher that 24.7 points or 360.9 yards in a season. You can’t have 7 of 9 be at your higher values. Were you looking at the defense averages for those years?

Whitt’s in charge of his own legacy. There isn’t anything any of us can say that will tarnish it. He built it up by winning games and it will only be diminished if he stays in the job but doesn’t keep producing at the level he has made everyone accustomed to.

Well, I want to blame the coach that didn’t have someone already in place so that the true freshman QB was not needed but apparently he’s finally left the building. He didn’t empty the trash from under the kitchen sink before leaving though so someone else has to deal with the stink, even if they didn’t make the mess.

We saw his offense in the bowl game last year and I don’t remember being envious. Pretty much the only difference from what Utah was running was not having Barnes at QB.

Agree. If this was an offseason hire, the first thing I would do is look at what his offenses have done and post it for all to interpret however they chose. When did information become a bad thing?

He was the OC for a lot of bad Northwestern offenses. And if the rest of this season is an audition for the 2025 OC job, it will be very relevant…[Read more]

Gave up a bunch of chunk plays to be sure and never figured out how to stop the WR wildcat. When was the last time a team trying to finish off a Utah defense relied on a WR running the ball to make it happen?

Nine different players touched the ball for TCU on Saturday night. Only the QB’s didn’t have a rush or reception for 10 yards or more and…[Read more]

I just can’t see blaming the D for anything this season. We just saw a game where they lowered their season average in ppg by half a point and are now 12th in the nation. At the same time if the combination of offense, defense and special teams were able to put up exactly 25 points in each game this year, they’d be 6-1.

25 ppg is all I’m asking…[Read more]

even if the next guy calls all of the exact same plays as TCU but in a different order, it will be a huge improvement. And there’s really not much more you can do in a week. Same playbook, different calls and the rhythm to how they are called. Maybe slightly different substitution patterns. The real changes will happen between Houston and the…[Read more]

Not much choice after what the players have been posting online.

He can’t stand with the other QB’s because he is in a boot and needs the cart to get around. Putting him front and center like they did last year would be dangerous.

The problem is that the TV cameras are always going to find him, even though he’s a non-entity as far as the remainder of the season. And I think it was O’Toole he was talking to…[Read more]