2008 National Champ

It would completely depend on the state of the roster. Urban likes taking over a squad that is ready for big things while 2025 Utah is looking like as close to a complete rebuild as 2017 Utah.

Off the top of my head, those exhausting their eligibility and/or potential draftees:

QB1
TE1
RB1
3 or 4 receivers
DT1, DT2, DT3
LB1, LB2, LB3
CB1

105 sounds like the number from the first time the NCAA limited scholarships before dropping down to 85.

20 seems low. Utah’s roster was around 125 last year so I’d double that.

There used to be a rule that if a kid was a two-sport athlete and one of them was football, his scholarship had to count against the football limit. That dates back to when the NCAA started limiting scholarships so that schools wouldn’t load up the non-revenue sports with football players to circumvent the cap.

Interestingly, one of the main…[Read more]

Carrington was 2017. I think you are describing the missed 2 pt conversion at SC which would have presumably won the game.

The one thing no one ever brings up is that Matt Gay missed a chip shot in the 1st half that would also have provided the winning margin, assuming that everything else had stayed the same.

That sounds excruciating

I know we’re supposed to assume the same ability for everyone in a family but I always think of the Griffey trivia question: how many combined major league home runs did Ken jr. and his brother Keith hit?

wasn’t there a high draft pick from Iowa with that same last name?

I prefer noted philosopher Mike Tyson: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth

you lost me at #2. The time for Notre Dame to have their cake and eat it needs to end. And they shouldn’t have a vote equivalent to any of the other 10 conferences.

Did 2023 not happen?

Ludwig knows how to utilize the skillset of the players he has.

Sooo much had to go wrong on that play for it to turn into a pick 6. Mariner fakes a vert and 2nd round Murphy goes to the ground. Normal coverage Murphy just breaks that pass up but instead he’s the exact 3 steps late he needs to be to take a once in a decade bounce to the house.

At least half of the UW starters that day ended up in the league…[Read more]

The problem with your next year scenario is why would Rose stick around to be QB3 for another year? I’d say it’s more likely to be Huard/Wilson and then whichever of the two QB commits appears least likely to turn the ball over while Rose hits the portal a year later than he should have.

Huard’s a bit of an enigma at this point. Father and Uncle were both stars at UW and made the league. Played at Kennedy Catholic which, along with Eastside Catholic, gets the top talent in the Puget Sound. Finished off the state career passing record during the Covid spring and the next week started Spring ball at UW. Was undersized and got…[Read more]

Huard is an Air Raid QB and not particularly mobile. Ludwig’s schemes depend on having a QB who can make something happen with his legs when behind schedule.

That being said, I agree it’s a good pickup. As long as Huard is over the 4 pick debacle against WSU his freshman year, he provides starting experience should Rising get dinged up without…[Read more]

should have scrolled farther down before posting. You said it better than I did

True, but no NFL contract prohibits the player from outside marketing of himself which is the basis for NIL. The Supreme Court has ruled so that cat is out of the bag.

The idea that kids sign over their NIL rights to a school in exchange for becoming an employee doesn’t seem like it would stand up to serious scrutiny. It sounds more like a…[Read more]

I’m one of those who felt the “rivalry” ended in 2010. From 2011 through 2023, it was just 2 schools that happened to be geographically close playing each other on a consistent basis. Since the two schools no longer had common goals, the need to constantly contrast Utah’s successes and failures in light of whatever the parochial school happened…[Read more]

I said the same as soon as the schedule came out. Cross country, short week, have to deal with whatever Thanksgiving stuff the team does.,, all of that is before you consider the access they have to some of the best recruiting areas of the country and a coach who has been to a National Championship game before.

UCF’s path is pretty similar to…[Read more]

It’s a little early to call him a failure at Colorado. He improved over the previous season across the board: sellouts at a place that previously couldn’t give tickets away, much improved roster, 3 more wins, national attention. He has made Colorado a destination for recruits instead of an afterthought.

Hunter and Sanders (maybe both) will be…[Read more]