2008 National Champ

I don’t think that suit is over yet. The NFL won their appeal but I believe the other side will file their own appeal. Not sure if it goes to the Supreme Court but it’s not done.

If Dillon’s listed weight is correct, he’s probably a year away from serious consideration for playing time.

do you not count unplayed seasons in a person’s age? wow, I can get at least 30 years off my driver’s license

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Utah has always done less with more

I’m not Dabo but as someone who walked on, I agree with his sentiment. Cutting the rosters down to 105 does nothing more than take chances away from 20 kids every year (I believe the roster max is currently 125). And these are kids who were/are willing to pay their own way to school and endure everything that goes along with being part of the…[Read more]

thanks for the clarification

got it. Utah will improve everywhere you want them to but the teams they play this year will be exactly the same as 2023.

special teams gave up a 14-19-208-2 passing line to an average QB? or 260 yards on the ground?

I haven’t read the full proposal. Are you saying that walk-ons, if over the 105 roster limit will not be allowed?

They weren’t playing 1980’s option football in 2023.

The PAC was top heavy with 6 of the top 16 passing offenses and then the next best being Oregon State at 51. The Big-12 had 4 of the top 25 and it’s 7th was Iowa State at 49. If you drop to Stanford at 57 (8th Pac) you get 3 more Big 12’s in Houston, Kansas and Kansas State (52, 53,…[Read more]

how does the 2021 trip to Oregon State fit into your thesis?

oh, those traditions and rivalries are already gone. it’s just taken us a long time to realize that they only really mattered to us.

It started with the breakup of the SouthWest Conference and Penn State joining the Big 11 but that only affected a couple of fanbases so the rest of us ignored it. Once the Big East became a revolving door of…[Read more]

Add in another 10% for shovel passes in 2004 and you have your typical Urban offense where 70% of the play design happens behind the LOS. Just shows to go that you don’t need to throw it 60 yards downfield every play to have an explosive offense. Execution and play-calling that does not let the other team key on tendencies is, always has been,…[Read more]

the consensus was that dueces was someone they needed to get the ball in his hands which is why the first pass play of the season was a wheel route to him that he dropped. They tried to put him in the Troy McCormick role but the ineffectiveness of Brumfield and Wilmore gave dueces more chances and he proved that he was as good as advertised.

In…[Read more]

forgive me for piggybacking on your thesis.,, but there’s a part of me that believes that a P2 (or superconference, or whatever you want to call it) may not fail spectacularly but it will fail.

I imagine I’m somewhere around median age for this board (56) so I believe many of us can remember the 3 network days where you were lucky if you got 3…[Read more]

On a normal week, the time zones would be a factor for UCF. But with the game being on a Friday after a holiday Thursday, I assume the team will fly Wednesday so they will have time to acclimate.

The bigger concern is that they won’t get a normal practice week. They’ll need to do a game plan walk-through on Sunday, do their reps Monday &…[Read more]

pretty sure it’s already been announced

Big-12 had the same clause for incoming P5 schools which is why the former PAC schools got full rations immediately.

It’s also why I’m skeptical on FSU, Clemson, et al coming in for higher shares. the unpronounceable four letter network is already going to be saving money by not re-upping the ACC deal. why pump it into the Big-12 when they can…[Read more]

by all accounts, Kuithe had a good spring and was able to handle everything the staff allowed him to do. I don’t think we know anything more than that at this point.

Unless something happened behind the scenes that only insider’s know, there really hasn’t been anything to indicate he won’t be back. Even trying to conflate his twin’s injury…[Read more]

It’s a pretty big jump from saying something stupid while trying to defend your player and violating Title IX.

If we’re being honest, pretty much anyone who has had a drink with a meal and then driven has pushed the envelope for a 0.8 BAC. I’m not defending the coach or the player who decided to drive over ~ 30mph over the speed limit while…[Read more]