[Utah]

LOLOLOLOLOL. Even the article listed all the “high profile” TE’s to go to BYU…and none did anything at BYU.

Good for him. Good for him.

But if he wanted to be an elite TE who gets drafted high…he went to the wrong school.

[Utah]

Looking at Utah’s schedule, here is where I have them:

For sure wins:
Cal Poly
Wyoming

For sure losses:
No one.

The rest: Look at the rest of the games. I could see Baylor, BYU, Kansas St, ASU, Kansas, Tech, Cincinnati, and WVU all blowing us out if we play like we did last year. That is 8 losses.

But if we get back to having a decent QB, our defense is good enough that we could easily win 10+ games. None of those teams are juggernauts.

But I have no idea who the crap is on our team, who is on anyone else’s team or anything. This is just so stupid.

[Utah]

Ugh. College Football really just sucks now. Look, ASU and BYU were both 10 win teams, they both bring back their QB’s, they get slotted up high again. I get it.

But how do you slot anyone else? Hell, look at Utah: we brought in 2 transfers, kept Wilson and have 2 HS QB’s coming in. There is a really, really good chance that three of those 5 are gone after spring ball. Same with the RB’s. Hell, we brought in some RB’s and some left and we brought in others and other left.

Who am I rooting for? How can I tell if they will be good or not? We don’t even know what the roster is. Utah could easily lose another 20-30% of their starters…and in the same vein, we might not even have our starting RB, QB, TE on the team right now.

Hey, but at least we have a running clock and the game will take 4 hours to be completed and we get to play s**tty teams I could care less about this fall.

[Utah]

This is tough. College sports have screwed themselves.

You don’t have to win. But you do have to be competitive.

I think to make the Huntsman crazy again, you have to be a NCAA tournament team.

You don’t have to be #1. You should at least be #64.

[Utah]

I’m gonna be devil’s advocate here.

Outside of basketball and football, Utah sports are doing great. Our women’s sports are all top 25, skiing is elite, etc. Outside of the two major sports, he is doing great. Let’s look at football and basketball:

1 – Football. This is not Harlan’s anything. Football is 100% on Whitt. We’ve paid him. We’ve paid his coaches. We’ve given him free reign to give fans the middle finger and do whatever he wants. We’ve paid his QB. We’ve paid his successor. Whatever issues football does or does not have, falls at Whitt’s feet. I can’t blame Harlan for football. We all collectively decided (and the donor’s call the real shots here) that Whitt was our god and he could do what he wanted. Football is on all of us. This is why you don’t give leaders free reign. Once you take away accountability, they slack off. It’s human nature. Anyone that requires no accountability isn’t going to be as successful.

2 – Basketball. Harlan didn’t pay Larry Krystkowiak. He inherited him. And we got rid of Larry one year too early, money wise, for good reason. And when Larry was fired, it was late in the game, because Harlan had to rally the troops and get the money together to fire Larry.

That meant most of the good HC candidates were gone. Smith was a terrible hire. I think everyone knew that at the time and anyone who was excited for the hire was either a Smith family member or just happy we screwed over an instate school. Smith wasn’t that great at USU and to think he was going to excel here…I dunno.

I’m not sure Harlan has done anything that should be getting this “fire Harlan” crowd. Football is not his call; he can’t do anything about that, and even when Whitt goes away, Scalley is the next guy. He has no control over that. You can’t blame Harlan for anything football related.

Which leaves basketball. I think Smith gets fired after this year. His buyout will just be around 2 million. You give Harlan a shot to hire someone with plenty of time to interview, vet, etc.

Honestly? I think most of the “Fire Harlan” guys are guys who got their panties in a twist over his postgame comments. For those people: No one cares. Not a soul has thought about it since two days after it happened other than BYU fans and Utah fans who desperately want to be better than BYU fans. Don’t worry about it. No one else has.

[Utah]

Easy. We were 13 points away from 9 wins. We bring our defense back. We don’t have Five foot Five 175 lb RB’s anymore. We aren’t relying on a freshman QB who can’t throw the ball.

And we were still 13 points away from 9 wins.

If our offense is average, we win 10+. If Rising played last year, we go undefeated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if’s and butts and if my aunt had a dick she’d be my uncle…

But we are still really, really, really good.

We should start 5-0. Say we lose to ASU. 5-1. Then we will beat BYU. They are the biggest paper tiger ever. 6-1. Then we should roll the rest of the way except maybe KSU.

This conference sucks. Honestly. It’s not great and Whitt dropped the ball last year with whatever he was doing at QB. If he was smart he would have given Jackson the money he gave Rising and we would have won 10 games last year.

This is MWC level schedule and we still have the upper middle P4 talent. Again, even as bad as we were, and we were bad offensively, we were 13 points away from 9 wins.

[Utah]

Can UteZone actually watch practices again?

[Utah]

Uhhhh…not really. Vaki proves his point. Look at Vaki’s numbers:

Game 1: 158 yards rushing, -5 yards receiving.
Game 2: 68 yards rushing, 149 yards receiving.
Game 3: 11 yards rushing, 0 receiving.
Game 4: -4 yards rushing, 67 yards receiving.
Game 5: 10 yards rushing, -8 yards receiving.
Game 6: 68 yards rushing, 0 receiving.

Vaki was exactly what he was talking about.

[Utah]

If that’s the case, Whitt needs to be gone yesterday.

Utah is a good enough program they should be shooting for 10 wins every year. This isn’t the PAC-12. Utah might not make 10 wins a year, but that should be the goal.

Anything less than that means the program is slipping and big changes are needed.

[Utah]

Man, I don’t think it would be that hard to fill 3-4 hours of time. Between Utah football, Big 12 football, Big 12 basketball, Utah Jazz and whatever the f**k your hockey team is, there is so much.

4 hours = 60 min blocks.
Each block has about 20 mins of commercials, which means 40 mins of talk time. You are talking for 10 mins, 5 min break.
You don’t have to find new topics for every single block of time. Every 70 mins or so, you just refresh the show and start all over again. That means you only need 4-5 topics a day to talk about.

The problem is, finding new and interesting stuff to talk about takes work. You gotta research things. Spend a month breaking down every Utah football game for a couple blocks a day. Easy stuff, if you rewatch the games, take notes, talk about what else was going on, etc.

The next problem is, these guys get paid close to nothing. It’s crazy how little they get paid. Utah used to be a stepping stone job. So many great radio personalities came through this state. BUT the radio station realized that they could put some dope on, pay him even less, and just have them rant about BYU vs Utah and they will be fine.

So, that is what has happened. You have these long term guys making less than their counterparts, but they won’t leave, and younger radio guys (who are becoming older) who get paid even less and do an even worse job.

Radio in Utah sucks.

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