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Killing? Killed. I don’t know if it can be resurrected but it’s clearly dead at the moment. A couple of good games cannot and should not revive it. The entire sport has lost credibility for players and fans. Major changes have to happen for it to have any meaning. Or it needs to disconnect from Universities and just become a AAA Team for the NFL…let them pay for the stadiums and travel etc. But it’s out of control and unless something radical happens it shouldn’t be a part of the University budget.

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But your assumption is that anyone else available would have won. It was a catch 22 for the coaches. Barnes had a horrid game. But its a total longshot that anyone else we had was going to actually be better at this point.

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1) NIL/Portal are going to make Utah a prime ground for farming by the SEC and B10. Utah can scout and develop the crap out of players, but we won’t keep the ones that shine in this current broken system. That’s not just us but since we have always been a team that thrived on finding and polishing diamonds in the rough it will hit us particularly hard.

2) When Whit does leave, reality is going to hit a lot of people very hard. He has been a once in a century coach for a team like Utah based both on his ability to win and his willingness to stay. We may see a year or two with a fresh Urban type but finding someone to really sustain as Whit has done is so damn unlikely that it makes me sad to even contemplate.

3) Injuries…something is going on. Either the worst luck of all time, or we have some kind of issue. The lack of transparency around injuries and healing is problematic this year. We can’t treat injuries like we have this year. Rising, Kuithe, Bernard, JJ, and on and on is probably a whole different thread but it’s a big concern for me if we don’t see a big change next year.

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Injuries
Transfer Portal
NFL draft

Those things are why we lost. Barnes was not ever going to be our starting QB but he did the best he could…and had an off day.

Ludwig…hell I don’t know what he was supposed to do with what he had to work with that night. I’m not going to blame him for the loss.

I do wanna point out that the NW player ripped off Kings helmet and assaulted him with it and then was allowed to play the rest of the game which did have a material impact on our Offense including some key plays in the 4th quarter. So maybe factor that in.

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I’ll take it. Never once “felt” the rivalry there. Really ASU, OU, and USC all felt a level of emotional rivalry. But CU…not an ounce. So its a valid point for me 😀

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Maybe we all need to step way back and ask what the multibillion dollar business of athletics really has to do with universities at this point. Maybe the NFL should just take over their farm league and pay for it and Universities can focus on physics and art. Really doesn’t seem like a match made in heaven in the modern era. More of a soul destroying pact with the devil (money and TV).

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is numbness from the repeated ridiculousness of the last year as good as taking a breath? I’m only posting because I’m bored today because apathy over college football has finally taken over my brain like a fungus. I can watch NASCAR or Netflix romcoms on Saturday at this point and I don’t think I’ll care about the difference (A spot I never imagined myself in). Really no idea what is going to bring me back. I never went back to baseball after the strike and steroids…hope something changes or this will be the same.

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yeah I think it calls for a real manly blow that sends a complete message.

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now that we’ve lost 3 programs and fans have been sitting around turning into mushrooms for a year…Updates that do not become announcements means they got squat. This is not going to magically turn around. Fail on all levels and that is very sad except all my tears are gone at this point.

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Never gave two shits about Colorado but the state of college football as a whole is so alienating that I am just over it. Let it all burn. I would have loved it if the PAC had the sense of urgency and acumen to head this all off. But the messaging saying they did was wrong. Simply wrong. There is no rabbit to pull out of the hat. One way or another this is bad for the sport as a whole.

Welcome to the soon to be official and fully NFL AA-League. Just divest from the universities so they can pretend to get back to academics.

Over it.