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[Roy Rangum]

While not quite the same, for what it’s worth there has been a ton of recent construction to build a lot more on campus housing right above the U of U institute building. The buildings look nice.

[Roy Rangum]

Great pic. How do you make it into the photo of the day?

[Roy Rangum]

I think this is Utebuntu wishing for this, not that it’s actually being planned this way

[Roy Rangum]

Glad to have some extra help with our QBs. It’s the most important position on the field.

[Roy Rangum]

I like this move for Barnes. He gets to still be the local guy. That said, I don’t know how much closer it gets him to his goal of being a starting QB… But best of luck to the dude. He was a hard working guy who gave it his all to the U and I love him for that. That, and he beat USC. That will be a great memory for forever.

[Roy Rangum]

While I’m sure there is a lot of smoke surrounding some players that isn’t real, on the flip side I feel very confident a lot of players are indeed making a ton of money, and for Cam, I feel quite confident his deal is over 1 million (although I don’t know details about if there any contingencies for him to get the full amount, which there probably are).

Think about it this way – if players weren’t actually getting all that much money, why would there be such a fight to keep NIL deals secret?

[Roy Rangum]

The problem with transfer QB’s is they don’t come cheap. The NIL price tag for a good QB from the portal is in the neighborhood of 1-2 million. With our current NIL funding, we won’t be able to go out and get many of those guys. For teams like Utah, in the current NIL landscape it becomes even more imperative to recruit and develop the diamonds in the rough.

[Roy Rangum]

It’s true. This needs to happen to help Utah get away from being just a commuter school. Hopefully those things will follow though as the number of students on campus increases.

[Roy Rangum]

I have a friend that from time to time gets inside info, and last spring I had heard from him that the coaches were very worried that neither Rose nor Johnson had what it took and they were planning to hit the portal for a QB, but clearly that never happened.

While a lot of people interpret Whitts statement that they didn’t go after a QB in the portal to mean that they felt good about Nate Johnson and Rose, I’m guessing that statement had far more to do with the fact that Utah didn’t have a realistic chance at a good portal QB between lack of additional NIL money and that a potential transfer QB could be benched if Cam came back.

I think this all goes back to the original statement that we should trust our coaches (particularly coach Whitt). While they are not perfect, they know far more than we do, and want to win far more than we do.

And just to put it out there in the same breath: I also think Cam Rising had good intentions as well (in part as evidenced by the fact he left money on the table to come back to Utah this year when he could have gone elsewhere for more), but in hindsight he could have handled it better.

[Roy Rangum]

You really think there is a chance that some of the Big12 games won’t be televised at all? In this day and age that feels hard to believe, but if true that makes me sad.