2008 National Champ

It’s often overlooked but if you think about the 4 big TD’s against SUU, all Rising did was not screw it up. Don’t get me wrong, some of the toughest throws to make are placement passes. Stanley on both his catches and two of Kuithe’s were so wide open that Rising just needed to make sure to give them time to run under the ball.

It’s so easy to…[Read more]

turn it up, thank me later

Spavital – We’ve seen his offense last week and last year with Cal. At Cal under Sonny Dykes and West Virginia under Holgerson he ran wide open, pass heavy offenses. Under Wilcox and Aranda, I haven’t been impressed so perhaps it’s more about what the Head Coach wants than his specific influence. He did coach Manziel and Kyler Murray so it’s…[Read more]

has Shah ever expressed interest in the DC job? Everything I’ve seen over the years is that he is happy just coaching the corners and wasn’t looking to get stepped up.

he doesn’t need to show out. he doesn’t need to be the hero. run the plays as designed and let the other 10 guys on the offense do their jobs.

Rising looked great game one because he made the right decisions and didn’t force anything. Wilson looked bad game one because he kept going for the highest degree of difficulty. He tried to get away…[Read more]

That CCG was a tough loss but I’ve got to go with 2010 TCU. I was absolutely convinced that 2010 team was going to make another BCS run. With a win over #4 TCU and then follow it up by winning @ Notre Dame the following week.,, maybe Utah gets Auburn instead of Oregon. Probably not since TCU ended up in the Rose Bowl against Wisconsin but I had…[Read more]

yep. Mychael Pittman catching every rainbow and the refs killing any promising Utah drive. Moss and Huntley both hurt in the game and still only lost by 7. That’s the game that made me think Utah could be really damned good that year if they could just stay healthy.

as expected

it was reminding me of the SC game, i think 2019, where it seemed like Utah got a flag on every offensive play

I don’t think it matters. Can only play K-state in the CCG where Utah’s opponents record doesn’t really matter since it “win and you are in the CFP”. Either team losing doesn’t help since it’s a non-con game.

I guess if you think Utah will get a ratings bump by beating a 3-0 Arizona instead of 2-1 in two weeks.,,

how many flags can Arizona get on one drive? 2 false starts, 2 holds and counting

As an OC (not including 2020 for obvious reasons):

2018 – 27.23 ppg (79th), 364.9 ypg (101st)
2019 – 28.46 ppg (67th), 444.8 ypg (27th)
2021 – 31.64 ppg (40th), 422.9 ypg (53rd)
2022 – 32.15 ppg (39th), 413.8 ypg (45th)
2023 – 23.08 ppg (101st), 377.8 ypg (73rd)

I’ll admit to only watching Grimes’s offenses in games against Utah. From that…[Read more]

Sure, but Utah has also beaten that same talent level. You can’t say that Oregon, Stanford, Washington or Michigan – if you want to go back that far – don’t count even though they had lines full of blue-chips just because Utah beat them.

What else are they going to say about the guy who is most likely to start the next game? that he sucks and they have no confidence in him being able to put his shoes on the proper feet, let alone call the right play or hand the ball of to the correct person?

Bigger issue to me is that if Wilson plays Saturday, you’ve effectively burned his…[Read more]

facepalm. he was trolling Cottonwood earlier the same day

It always has been.

– Hugh McElhenny was quoted in the 1950’s that he had to take a pay cut when he went pro
– The original college football teams in the 1890’s paid their players

The notion of the “scholar-athlete” was something the NCAA came up with so they could enforce draconian rules on kids while expanding their power

He went to grad school at Utah but I don’t know if he got another degree there before he got caught at the Cottonwood Mall.

Ted Bundy? you kinda went off the rails there at the end.

Caleb Williams was making the bulk of his money off national ads like Dr. Pepper, somewhere in the 10MM range. Their collective probably didn’t need to pay him anything.

Rose probably. Huard is up in the air but it shouldn’t take a 4th year QB that long to learn the offense. At most, it’s just getting the different terminology down.

For as good as Huard’s pedigree was, he got chances his freshman year at UW and didn’t do well. And he didn’t exactly tear it up after dropping to FCS. He throws a pretty ball but…[Read more]