The Miami Ute

There is a mechanism for officiating accountability but it is not public so we never know it happens unless it was so bad it can’t be hidden like the SC/WSU targeting game on a Friday night. The conference had to acknowledge their staff members were involved in real time in the outcome.

Otherwise, the teams have to submit clips of plays they…[Read more]

’75 was the better series. Bernie Carbo v Carlton Fisk in 7 games. I can still name the starting 9 for the Big Red Machine and taught myself to dive headfirst into third based on that iconic Sports Illustrated cover of Pete Rose.

Your ancient ass is only 3 years older than me, mister.

I have wanted Harlan fired before this.

But his behavior after that game is not just a straw to break the camels back. It is a RPG to the back.

Yeah, not much chance Jim McMahon was ever going to follow an honor code. Sounds like Z Wilson got away with whatever he wanted if the rumors were true and I even heard about Jake Heaps’s exploits when I was working in California.

Add Stanford and, to some extent Notre Dame, to the Ivy’s and the other blue bloods don’t have a chance at outspending them. Maybe Texas could? I don’t remember if it was Texas or A&M that was endowed with oil wells but think it was Texas.

The Ivy’s, Stanford and Notre Dame are each essentially sitting on Elon Musk money and could build the…[Read more]

I’ve been to games in Manhattan, Lawrence, Stillwater, Norman, even went to a game in Tulsa once and none of them involved Utah. Great seats at cheap prices (except Norman) as long as a big name isn’t in town. I’ve also been to games in Corvallis & Pullman. The fans aren’t any less passionate, they’ll gladly share their tailgate both before and…[Read more]

I’m less concerned with the picks, even though I’d like more, than I am the fumbles. Utah has recovered two of 11 this year which puts them at minus 3.5 on the luck meter. Bounces going your way is usually a big indicator in the type of season your team is having.

I keep coming back to the Retzlaff fumble around his own 10 that they were able…[Read more]

This is a very social media driven take, my friend. Deep breaths. Again, so much hyperbole. Stay away from facebook and twitter fan pages. Utah football doesn’t fall off the map because of this season. It happens to even blue bloods. Years like this. JFC I didn’t realize our fanbase was so dramatic.

I can’t get past the ball placement on that throw. Right at the sideline but still in bounds so Kuithe didn’t have to make a jumping or tip-toe catch. Even if the DB hadn’t stumbled, I don’t think he could have gotten to the ball to knock it away. Just a perfect dime.

For me, Minnesota is the only one on that list that is no longer a blue blood. In robber baron terms, they are the Vanderbilt family which squandered it’s fortunes through multiple bad generations and other than Anderson Cooper are no longer relevant.

The Ivy’s still hold their blue blood status even though they don’t compete at the highest…[Read more]

Lots of hyperbole here. Which is understandable after that game, that ending and how our season has gone. But we still need to keep perspective.

1. Other than us involved in the Holy War, no one will remember his rant. It was a momentary blip on espn during the meat of college football season. This kinda stuff occasionally happens in bitter…[Read more]

other teams sure do it to Utah enough that you’d think we might try it back at least once a game.

We have conceded the facemask. Even though the initial contact at or near the helmet which made Rose’s head turn is typically an indicator of either facemask or illegal hands to the helmet. In the PAC, we had a player ejected for targeting for less than that facemask. You can’t go high on a QB as another parochial school defender found out a…[Read more]

On a separate note, can we have some sort of technology that indicates when a coach calls a timeout! There’s not much else that p**ses me off in a game when that play clock goes to 00 flags fly for delay of game and two seconds later a ref comes running out onto the field announcing a ghost timeout.

Better option might be to not let a TO be c…[Read more]

Both hockey and soccer have rules where the play doesn’t stop unless the foul creates an advantage for the offending team.

In Hockey, they play on while the offensive team still has the puck inside the blue zone because calling a penalty against the defense and forcing a faceoff hurts the offense. In soccer, a trip behind the play could negate…[Read more]

neither of your teams could handle my cincinatti reds. fact

Someone needs to come up with an agreed upon timeline for blue blood membership. @UteHorn put his which magically Texas managed to make the threshold. But none of the original blue bloods were on there: the Ivies, Rutgers, Georgia Tech. Texas wasn’t relevant until Dana Bible so I guess we ignore pre-WW2 unless it fits a narrative.

You didn’t ignore your Texas roots but that’s okay. It’s tough to take that out of the equation. Someone who grew up on the west coast like me would probably go opposite on most of your evaluations. i.e., Oklahoma State and Oregon State were pretty much equals in historical success until T Boone decided to try to outspend Phil Knight. Yet in…[Read more]

follow up: 4th quarter scoring defense since the Baylor game

Oklahoma State – 16 of 19 points allowed
Arizona – 7 of 23
Arizona State – 7 of 27
Texas Christian – 0 of 13
Houston – 10 of 17
parochial school – 9 of 22

49 out of 121 (40%) points allowed in the 4th quarter and only the first TD against Oklahoma State could be considered garbage…[Read more]

You’re giving the first Houston “drive” way too much credit. A one yard pass turned into a broken play TD. It didn’t build any momentum or show that new concepts were going to work. The rest of that game was the true representation of Utah’s offense which was no different than the rest of the season.

The first half against the parochial school…[Read more]