2008 National Champ

At this point, I wouldn’t take Whitt’s opinion on scrambled eggs v. sunny side up with any amount of credibility.

Was it before OSU that he said one QB would take all the snaps one day and the other the next? Maybe it was Arizona. Either way, that stood out as weird at the time. If both QB’s are feeding from the same trough, swapping them out…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s a hard one that we all deal with. If I had made ___ decision differently.,, The reality though is that we make the decisions we truly wanted to in most occasions so it’s not the decision that would have to change but the mindset of the person making the decision. Because I’m pretty sure that Rising would still try to come back…[Read more]

If he wants to go elsewhere and continue his career I fully support it. But he can’t hold the Utah program hostage anymore, even if he is the best option when he’s at the top of his game because there is no guarantee that he can reach that level again.

It is in everyone’s best interest that he get healthy and moves on with his life however he…[Read more]

I feel bad for him because I don’t wish injury on anyone. But Rising wasn’t going to play for free when the market dictates that starting QB’s at P4 schools start at a million per.

No one forced Rising to take any NIL. If he truly wanted to play for free, he would have. And if this was 2018 rules, he would have played for free. But not…[Read more]

I think the point is that pairing a healthy Jackson with a healthy Bernard would have solved a lot of the short yardage and driving finishing issues the team has struggled with, no matter who was the QB. It’s only speculation but it wouldn’t take much to provide more than Stanley/Mitchell/Vincent have.

yeppers. I just need to get you to come around on the true benefit of unbridled capitalism and my work will be done. It’s a shame it took the last 3 weeks of Utah football to get us to this point. hee-hee

wait, you didn’t think Rising was a legitimate threat to catch the ball on that play? surely you cannot be suggesting that he was just going to stand there and be anything more than a decoy. because I was sold that the intent was for him to make a diving play in the corner of the end zone. unfortunately, ASU sniffed it out and Kuithe had to…[Read more]

“… in space”. get the ball to the playmakers in space!

What did Ohio State do in the 2021 Rose Bowl? They ran 2 receivers deep, another on an 18 yard in and their best receiver Smith-whatever on an 8-12 yard drag route. Granted, Utah pass rush was stymied all game but you ended up with 4 legitimate options every play and DB’s can’t cover…[Read more]

Bad offense (#82 scoring, #58 ypg) v Bad defense (#104 scoring, #42 ypg). Optimist says Bad offense will take advantage of bad defense. Pessimist says both will perform better than norm but still be on the bad side. Wager accordingly

stop serenading me with your beautiful words

well shevitsky. now I’ve got to take it back 🙂

I stopped counting at 19 when I ran out of fingers and toes

symbol police alert:

M is thousands
MM is millions

3,000 M = 3 MM

The one key for the Penix turnaround was that he went to a school with an offense designed to showcase his arm while asking him to do little to nothing with his legs. Penix’s history would have made going somewhere with a scheme like Oregon’s a much bigger risk.

Should Rising decide to play next year, that is the kind of situation he needs to…[Read more]

there would a be a certain amount of irony were Rising to follow Tuttle at Michigan

2024 was the makeup year for not being allowed to play in 2019 based on the new rule. The medical redshirt would be for the 2023 season and need to go through the NCAA for approval.

Once you wipe 2019 and 2020 off the table as free years, you still have 5 years to play 4.

2018 – redshirt
2021 – redshirt freshman
2022 – redshirt sophomore
2023 -…[Read more]

@Utah: we seem to be on the opposite side of a lot of issues but I am 100% behind that post. Please enjoy a well earned upvote

The playbook isn’t. There aren’t any plays in there that aren’t in every other OC’s playbook. It always comes down to the plays called and more importantly, the sequencing.

My premise has always been that the Whitt/Ludwig way of doing things (because don’t for an instant think that Whitt doesn’t have influence on the overall vision) is try to…[Read more]

2015 makes sense when you consider ARod was the OC (I liked his scheme better than Ludwig’s even if the QB wasn’t as good but that’s an argument for another day) and it was the first season Sitake wasn’t the DC. It was also the first year where Hill wasn’t running the special teams and marked the beginning of that decline even if Wishnowsky and…[Read more]