Yergensen

It wasn’t clear to me what Ludwig’s game plan was. Given the circumstances and the playmakers we had left, I would have expected us to go more run heavy and use RPO more than we did. Certainly expected this after Cam went out. Instead we tried to force feed the WR and Yassmin, threw in a momentum killing trick play all while the run game and jet…[Read more]

Good observations

Post is directed at the defense as a whole. IMO it’s missing that physicality and nastiness that Utah defenses are known for.

Yes, coaches have to know what they have and whether under the circumstances a guy can win you a game. Barnes wasn’t going to win that game or even keep it close for RB and/or defense to win it. Was he really our best option? If so, then coaches are accountable for not getting better talent behind Cam. If not, then the coaches are accountable f…[Read more]

Barnes should not be in the starting QB competition next year. Ludwig has already says he is, but he can’t be serious = coach speak.

Why would you drop that coin PK when you don’t have it and you’re a Sun Devil?

Wary of “plug & play” QBs in the portal. The two we brought in were broken out of the box. Rising worked out great for us as a developmental transfer, other teams have had success with plug and play transfer QBs (CW, Penix, Nix), us not so much.

Red and white were the colors when I went to school at the U. Use of black uniform coloring (both Utah and BYU started outlining jersey numbers with it in the late 90’s) and blackout uniforms caught on in the 2000’s. Unfortunately (IMO) some of us didn’t reverse trend.

I’m going to expand defense travels to line play travels. Win in the trenches and we’ll be right there.

At least one of our lines has struggled in recent years against better line talent (Florida, UCLA, Texas, Oregon, SC).

Yeah, I thought we might have won that game. Utefansince79 references the game we lost to RichRod.

This new AZ team is well coached and NIL funded. They’re going to play us tough.

Huntley saw similar gains. He was 64% in 2017-2018 under Taylor and jumped to 73% in 2019, his first year with Ludwig.

You can’t discount the system which helps completion rate. I’d be curious as to what the air yards are in our system vs others. For example, USC clearly throws the ball differently than we do.

However, I think Ludwig is…[Read more]

Butt rock, there’s a term I haven’t heard in decades. Made my Fizz come out my nose, thanks for the laugh.

Let me fix that for you:

Rising B+
Scalley deserves his F, got outcoached across the field. For example, he should have known coming into the game and at least by halftime that Fillinger isn’t ready for RPO yet. Gabe Reid should be starting, but Scalley’s stubborn.

We disagree. Like I said, there are others. Go watch SDSU last year. And even if you were correct, I don’t care how he’s catching it if he’s getting open and making plays.