2008 National Champ

What was the first (others)? I haven’t lived in Utah for over 30 years so if it doesn’t make national news like Perriman I probably missed it.

I know you’re joking but with the new roster limits and teams devoting more spots to the portal, the chances for HS recruits are getting smaller. Better to take the guaranteed spot for a year than decommit at the last minute if you don’t have another landing spot already set up.

Is it safe to assume that all 3 Hawaii kids and maybe 1 of the California Poly’s will be missionaries?

@Utah: I also didn’t have an opinion on Harlan until the Tom Farden debacle. To keep a coach in his position after women athletes were claiming abuse in this day and age is unacceptable. And yet he made it worse by running an investigation which allowed Farden to keep his position and then had to fire him right before the season after more…[Read more]

Not coincidentally, the first 3 games of that losing streak were after Huntley got injured and Troy Williams couldn’t run the quick passing game at the same level.

realistically though, if you were Whitt would you change the way you do business? National Coach of the year, 4 straight CCG’s.,, all the reasons the keep Whitt crowd trumpets are the same reasons Whitt follows his formula.

Saban realizing that if he wanted to have a chance at the NC every year meant that he needed to embrace offense is an…[Read more]

The timing on the OC announcement is usually an indicator. Arbuckle’s team didn’t have anything to play for this week and he wasn’t go to stay for a bowl. Same with Kittley (Texas Tech) going to FAU or Malzahn to FSU.

That would indicate one of two things: 1) Utah’s OC hire is at a G5 playing a CCG this weekend (Vegas, Boise, Tulane, Army,…[Read more]

If only Utah had an advantage of thinner air for half their games to make it easier to get touchbacks.,,

Urban coached special teams wherever he was at and all starters were available for him to use. That’s one advantage of having the head coach doing it, they don’t want their 1/3 to be the let down.

I looked up the 2004 stats. David Carroll / Bryan Borreson combined to make 100% of their field goals. All 7 of them. Can’t stop laughing since it…[Read more]

Part of the kickoff problem is that Utah rarely uses their FG kicker to do kickoffs, even going back to Matt Gay. Wishnowsky would kickoff instead of Gay. Coleman has been doing the kickoffs most of the year, not Becker.

I hate to be that guy but I will admit that whenever I hear of Utah recruiting a QB my first thought is “what’s wrong with them?” I look forward to the day when I get excited about that position again.

I’m all for recruiting talent. I’m an even bigger fan of utilizing that talent. Utah has done a good job of upgrading offensive speed over the last few classes. But most of that speed has been sitting on the bench, transferred out, or moved to defense.

2 years ago I went through the recruiting stats and listed all of the 100 times I could…[Read more]

where does the 170 fit?

OC for Urban’s first 3 teams at Ohio State that went 12-0 while on probation, 12-2 and 14-1 with a National Championship. 37.2, 45.5 (3rd) and 44.8 (5th) points per those 3 years.

Or he was told who the new OC is going to be but asked to keep it quiet

Lots of reason for late flips and it seems like SC is getting/losing commits every day

Ashton Jeanty v the best team Phil Knight can buy? I don’t even have to think twice but I’ll admit that if it’s not Utah I want whatever is worst for the power brokers. I understand if others don’t feel the same way

Scalley made a little less than Ludwig this year at 1.5 MM. Better money than he could make as a G5 head coach.

Assistant Coach Salaries

gimme the smurf turf all the way. 1st round bye, beat #5, beat #1 Oregon in a rematch, beat whoever in the final.

Show the P2 that their TV dollars don’t mean a thing and that they shouldn’t have been forcing out the little guy for the past 100+ years

you mean planes from Vegas can go more places than just Salt Lake? that can’t be true

follow up: The concept of the more points you score, the better your chances of winning feels so intuitive that I can’t believe it’s not on Whitt’s analytics sheet.

Whitt has coached 252 games (not counting 2005 Fiesta Bowl) and won 166 of them (.659). His win % by points scored in his career:

0-10: 0-23 (.000)
11-20: 14-26 (.350)
21-30: 49-29…[Read more]