[Tony (admin)]

He’s very skilled, and a super lovable dude. You just can’t not like this guy.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

Great post proud Ute. It’s nice to see the other side of the NIL portal madness. The type of player you can really root for (even better he is an Olympus high alum like me). Player development and culture has been the calling card of the program since Whitt took over. I know I’ll cheer a little louder when I see that # on the field.

[press-on]

Not wanting to throw shade on Whittingham, but in reflection I’m not nearly as bewitched with ‘the man’ as many on this board. Three conference championships in 20 years. Not bad. Just not great. One of which we can thank a convoluted 2nd place tie-breaker in ’22 for squeaking us into that championship game. And another back in ’08 with a nucleus of Senior talent assembled by and inherited from Urban. All together, not bad. Graded out I would say, he’s somewhere in the solid B range as captain at the helm.

Whitt’s great accomplishment, however, is longevity. He has placed his mark on Utah football for generations and you do have to tip your hat at his ability to win just enough to keep the natives engaged for two decades.

Interestingly, and by way of a rough comparison, Ronny Mac had two championships in 13 years. Ratio wise just about equal to Kyle. But of course, Kyle has had the good fortune to be able to hang around much longer. (And I do use the phrase ‘good fortune’, deliberately).

McBride turned Utah football around. Urban put Utah on The Map. Whittingham kept the Utes in the Game. And the next hire hopefully will establish Utah as a perennial power on the national stage.

Go Utes!

[Hoban Washburne]

What am I missing here?

[Tony (admin)]

The link was missing. Proud must have fixed it. 🙂

[Utah Man 3]

Jackson Bennee the walk on safety

[W16Ute]

Imagine the ’23 season without Vaki on offense… It would have been ugly.

[Utegator]

I think predictive play calling has been an issue for a while. Maybe its just a result of poor QB play though.

[Minnesota Ute]

My ire is purely aimed at sucking. I have a little ire reserved for being back in the same conference as the zoobs because I am one of those people that don’t enjoy the “rivalry” one iota and would prefer if we never played them again. I know I’m in the minority in that respect, but I find the fact that we are tied at the hip annoying and feel that playing them in any sport at any time is a lose-lose proposition for us most of the time regardless of outcome.

[UteThunder]

Given how much of an unknown our WRs are, and how low expectations are for that group, they can make huge strides and still not be good enough to prevent Snowden from being needed to go both ways.

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