2008 National Champ

once they got the state of Idaho off their schedule, yeah they’ve looked pretty good.

he’s held the ball way too damn long.

avalanche’s start with a trickle, then a flow and finally momentum takes over and the whole mountain comes down

start at the top. if the answer is yes, don’t go any further

that Kuithe Orbit sweep on the first drive was inspired

won’t know after tonight either, win or lose

And it wouldn’t have just been Fifita. He brought three others from Servite with him to Arizona. Think Utah could have used an all-conference LB or an all-american receiver right about now?

McElwain, Muschamp, Mullen.,, maybe they should have avoided coaches whose names started with M, Napier. Am I missing any since Meyer quit? Not exactly murderer’s row of coaching resumes. Even Meyer was a reach that worked and they’ve been trying to duplicate it since.

It takes about 20 seconds of listening to Meyer to realize how driven he…[Read more]

And SC steals defeat from the jaws of victory once again.

When will people start to realize that urinalists and their hive mind preseason polls aren’t any smarter than the rest of us?

If I knew the answer, I’d be getting paid a lot more and I’d be in the coach hiring biz. The main difference between Napier and Cignetti is the latter had unprecedented success at a couple of places that hadn’t had much before, then transitioned a top FCS team to FBS without a drop in performance. He’d achieved every where he’d been given a…[Read more]

and not an in-house hire who spent multiple years as the Head Coach in Waiting. I keep saying that there are good coaches out there if you are willing to find them.

luck in a single instance can be true but it’s not sustainable over the long term. at some point you have to credit their focus and preparation. things can turn around for them just as quickly but I wouldn’t attribute that to bad luck.

If they kept Helton 5 years past his expiration date because they couldn’t afford the buyout, Riley ain’t going nowhere he don’t wanna. SC is still paying for all those scandals

Every year at least one preseason top 10 team finishes unranked. Florida State is taking it to new levels though. Can we make a pact that Utah is never higher than 15 preseason? A couple of losses are acceptable from that position but at least you can also get forward momentum.

Oh, and add Tyler Shough to list of QB’s available in the portal…[Read more]

lot’s of losses to go around. Iowa State still plays Texas Tech and K State. Lose one other + Utah, Utah holds the tie-breaker. parochial school has easiest remaining schedule but stub their toes + lose Utah, Utah holds the tie-breaker. No one in the conference is unbeatable.

There are plenty of scenarios where Utah makes the CCG since the…[Read more]

It’s also why trying to project improvement across the board for your own team while assuming that everyone else will repeat the previous year is a fool’s errand. No one really knows who is going to improve or regress until the games are actually played.

The other night I went through College Football Reference to see if a notion that I had was true. I’d mentioned on another thread that the ST had been regressing since Jay Hill stopped being in charge of it. Then I though to myself, it also seems like turnovers have been more infrequent since around the same time which would also be when Sitake…[Read more]