ProudUte

More because of the leader he is than the player.  I will miss his fantastic returns, but he is a great young man and loyal Ute.
I listened to his weekly interview with Riley.  I always love these interviews.  He said that the coaches do not need to do anything to motivate the players because they are already stoked.  He said he was happy they…[Read more]

To get his Covid test and wrist band.  He said there were a ton of Ute fans there and he thinks he saw two Ohio State fans.  Maybe OSU fans are all vaccinated. 🙂

Most of you are probably too young to remember long-time Tribune sports editor – John Mooney.  He once wrote a column about Utah’s 5 best football games.  I think this was written in the late 60s, maybe early 70s.  In any event 3 of the 5 games were losses like the loss to Army in the 1950s.
Things have changed a lot in the last 50 years.  We now…[Read more]

Utah has a better offensive line
Utah has a better defensive line
Utah has a better head coach
If Utah can avoid special-teams mistakes – they could win this game.
 

Coach Scalley
Devin Lloyd
CJ Stroud  (He calls Lloyd all-world)
OSU’s offensive coordinator

Sounds like UCLA did not communicate very well.
“Felt lied to, to be honest,” said Doeren, per Mark Schlabach of ESPN. “We felt like UCLA probably knew something was going on, didn’t tell anybody on our side. We had no clue they were up against that. I don’t feel like it was very well handled from their university. It would’ve been great to have…[Read more]

Matt Brown was interviewed on the Zone this morning.  He knows college football, especially Ohio State since he graduated from there.  He is very high on Coach Whitt and the Utes.  He likes Utah’s chances in the Rose Bowl.  He said that the mood in Columbus is not good.  He pointed out that they are a bit spoiled and losing one game is devastating…[Read more]

The game was to be played tonight.  That is last minute.  I don’t know the details.
 

On the news last night KH talked about Devin Lloyd.  He mentioned that he had a chance to sit down with him in Vegas.  He mentioned that Devin came out of HS with very few offers.  He could not have been higher on Lloyd.  I looked for a link to the video but I could not find it.
 

He had a few interesting takes on the guys opting out.
He thinks the biggest loss for this game may be the defensive tackle who opted out.  He apparently is the foundation of the Dline.  He feels that this may help Utah’s running game.  He didn’t seem really high on the OSU linebackers.
He thinks that Coach Day will run more in this game because…[Read more]

It will be interesting to see if there is more change tomorrow.
With this being Rose Bowl week – I am surprised that very few people are posting.
I am excited about this game.  When I first had season tickets as an adult back in 1975 we went 1-10.  Going to any bowl game was the furthest thing from my mind let alone a Rose Bowl.  Some of you may…[Read more]

Channel 2 showed a clip from a presser Herbstreit held on the Rose Bowl.  He was very positive about the Utes and their amazing turn-around this season.
We are getting a lot of positive pubicity.

Haskell Garret
Chris Olave
Nicholas Petit-Frere

Will likely be our pash rush.  We aren’t going to stop OSU’s offense from scoring.  They are too good.  But, if we can keep the pressure on Stroud, I think we can slow them down.  If Stroud has time – I’m afraid he will carve up our DBs.
On Offense, we need a bunch of drives that take five+ minutes.  We want to keep the ball out of OSU’s hands. …[Read more]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving team. 🙂
ASU Transfers

And also to my fellow Ute fans!  I hope our present comes neatly wrapped one week later in Pasadena.  Regardless, it has been an amazing season.  After a terrible 1-2 start and losing another player to a shooting, we somehow bounced backed and won the PAC12 for the first time and are headed to the Rose Bowl.  I did not expect this on October…[Read more]

The video below implies that there may be at least three OSU opt-outs.  Coach Day is keeping it quiet.  He does not want Utah to know anything.  These guys are suggesting that one WR, Wilson will sit out as well as one defensive lineman and one offensive lineman.  Some suggest that there may be more, but no one seems to know anything for sure. …[Read more]

At least that is what happened in my dream last night.  It was so realistic.  We were down 40-24 going into the 4th quarter.  We struggled stopping OSU’s passing game.  We scored two TDs and two 2-point coversions to tie the game.  OSU had the ball first in OT.  They threw a pick to Lloyd that he took back for the win.
Then some BYU fan came up…[Read more]

Ford declares for the NFL draft.  I suspect he will go in about the 4th round.  Will we have more players in the NFL from this team than 2019?
Ford declares for draft
Good for him.
 

TAMU cannot play in the bowl game because they only have 36 eligible players.
I hope this does not happen to Utah or OSU.  Both teams sending players home for Christmas.  This worries me a bit.  Oh well.  Whatever happens – happens.
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