Yergensen

DL is a question mark occasionally and is again this year.

In 2022 the front 4 got little pressure and Scalley had to blitz, a lot.

Who is going to get pressure off the edge this year? Fillinger hasn’t proven himself in 3 yrs, O’Toole has very little game experience/production and Fano is coming off his 2nd ACL.

We could well have someone ste…[Read more]

Ok State QB is a game manager. I’d be interested from our new Ok State friends where he falls on the game manager spectrum. Is he JJ McCarthy, Bryson Barnes or somewhere in between?

We saw first hand last year what a game manager QB can and can’t do.

Myles said he had one question for Utah coaches when he visited this week.

I assume it’s the question you note CCU.

It would be the question I would ask Utah if I were a WR. The stats don’t lie, our WR use is low. So, will Whit ever commit to a vertical pass game?

ESPN recruiting department is one guy in a basement stairwell with a red stapler.

“A short 4 picture read.”

I expect that this misperception of Utah by B12 fans created by our Twitterphiles will be helped with face to face fan interaction at home and away games. In my experience we’re generally good to other fans.

Our Twitterphiles have for certain written a check I hope our team can cash. Hate what they’ve done, because…[Read more]

Conference titles aren’t easy to win. While our Twitterphiles have pounded their chests you’ll find a more realistic group here.

P2 inclusion of us will take some planets aligning. But some talking heads include us in the conversation for what it’s worth.

Until then it looks like we’re conference mates again whether we like it or not.

The solution is pretty simple for me and doesn’t involve a redesign or firing UA (my hope and dream).

Adopt the throwback red and whites, white and whites as the go to standard. Use the red and silver and the go to throwback. Retire red, black and white. Stop switching.

Do a special uniform and/or helmet once a year.

Yeah, we brought in transfers each of the past 2 seasons and played them ahead of recruited talent.

It was apparent we lost Medlock over this (transferred to a good program btw) and could have lost Fotu.

Graduation, draft declarations, retirements, return missionaries, PTO scholarship awards etc. all factor.

All teams have same scholarships, but in any given year none of them have the same returning players on scholarship due to all of these factors mentioned. So, recruiting class sizes vary accordingly.

Class ranking is not the right metric. It factors quantity of recruits/class size. So you can have a small class of 10 recruits whose avg recruit score/talent score is 90 (see Colorado) and another team whose class of 25 recruits with an avg recruit score is 85 (see BYU) and the latter gets a higher class ranking.

The key recruiting metric is the…[Read more]

IMO – Edge rush is a question mark. I think we tend to overrate edge rush, we tend to think it’s always a position of strength or at least never a weakness.

For us to take the next step, our DL and OL as well have to be able to hold their own and even get the edge on top 20 teams. We seem to be outmatched in the trenches against top c…[Read more]

What do we know about him, specifically his recruiting chops?

Have to look beyond his interim record (not good) at WV.

Thanks for reaching out, B12 will be cool, looking forward to it.

Really like Ollie and the Mullet (not a bad band name btw).

Hope you can get out to SLC for a game. RES is a great game day and in game experience and we’re really good hosts despite our online rep.

^This is how you have to evaluate recruiting classes, the quality or talent indicator is avg player score or in the 88 range for us.

BYU fan pointed to overall rankings which factor quantity in claiming that their 2024 HS football recruiting ranking was better than ours. The reality is they just pulled in a bigger class than ours of lower…[Read more]

I fear Ryan Smith Enterprises is going to funnel NIL truckloads to both BYU basketball and football. Much harder to do with football, but that guy prints money.

They don’t want to be a basketball school. They love the improvements going on with basketball, but they know football is king and don’t want to accept their reality.

BYU and Reality = oil and water.

You don’t shift deck chairs on the Titanic. Stay in our place, win and hope for a P2 window of opportunity opening up to us.

Statistically Cam wows no one, but he has more “It” factor than anyone.

His leadership on and off the field, his grit in the moment to make a play that in and of itself can win/change games and seems to raise team play around him. This stuff doesn’t show up in a box score or these analyses, but it’s there and it’s impactful.

When he plays, we…[Read more]

Didn’t on last play of game Troy Williams miss Carrington wide open in back of end zone to beat SC that year?