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Pics or it didn’t happen.
I hope this is true, but do I dare?
I’m more astounded that lefty is part of the Alumni board.
Hey now… SHUSH YOU
If true, this is fantastic!
To be fair, a timeline was not given. But this does confirm it is definitely in the plan!
im excited for this to be announced in 2027
which happens first, new south end zone announcement or BYU to big 12?
Utah gets a national championship.
Well, here I am. I was a casual visitor to another site, enjoyed a lot of the posts and insight, and I can understand the mass exodus that just occured. I thought I would join this site, it looks well run, updated and has a lot of informed fans. Hope to see it stick to the Utes, not delve into the Y too much, and leave religion and politics out. I understand that religion and politics are part of Utah, but nothing makes me close my browser than rants on religion and politics either right or left.
Anyway, looking forward to this game tonight! I think if we can punch them in the face early they shut down, shivering looking forward to getting out of here. This game is obviously huge for USC, win and they can turn the season around, lose and it alarms will be sounding, heads rolling.
Welcome. Glad to have you. The water is warm here. Enjoy and GO UTES!
Welcome fellow Ute fan! Here’s to a good game and a Utah W tonight.
Just did the same thing. Lurked for years, donated, posted every once in a while on the other site. Seems over here has a better atmosphere, layout, etc….As someone who has lived out of the state of Utah for the last 10 years communities like these are my only link to fellow Ute Fans. So, Thanks!
Post your guts out over here! What makes a board a good board are the posts.
Welcome TrueUte and SteelUte! Glad to have you.
Don’t get too excited though. Most of the people in my tailgate are old farts.
That guy is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. He is incredible.
Dammit, sounds awesome, but it is straight into the game from work. Next time though.
Going to try to swing by!
SC gives three guys the bulk of their carries, like us: Davis, Jones, Ware.
Davis: 37 att, 3.6 avg, 0 TD
Jones: 23 att, 5.1 avg, 1 TD
Ware: 17 att, 4.6 avg, 1 TD
I’m not sure what to make of this, because they have played Alabama and Stanford.
Alabama is allowing opposing teams to rush for 2.3 yards/carry. USC ran for 2.1 yards per carry. Mississippi ran for 3.2 yards/carry.
Stanford is allowing opposing teams to rush for 3.6 yards per carry. USC ran for 4.5 yards/carry. Kansas St ran for 2.8 yards/carry.
What does that mean? Who the hell knows. USC ran better than average against Stanford (maybe Stanford’s defense is a little over-rated) but worse than average vs Alabama (maybe Alabama just is that great).
Sticking with USC, they have allowed teams to rush for an average of 195 yards per game and a 5 yard per carry average.
VS Stanford, Stanford ran for 295 yards and a 6.3 y/c. For the season, Stanford is averaging 200 yards per game and a 5.0 y/c. Against Kansas St, they ran for 105 yards and a 3.5 y/c.
So, USC’s defense definitely did worse vs Stanford than Kansas State’s.
VS Alabama, USC’s D let Alabama run for 242 yards and a 5.3 y/c. For the season, Alabama is averaging 233 yards and 5.3 y/c. So, Alabama has been pretty consistent.
Now, USC did slow USU down, holding them to 49 yards and a 1.9 y/c.
My big concern for Utah is that we do what we did last year:
Abandon the run game. That we come out slinging the ball around, turn it over a time or two, and give USC all the momentum.
I hope we come out and do what Stanford and Alabama did, and run the ball 47 times. BEAT THEM DOWN.
Then play action off that to B-B and Patrick.
I think they remember.
As bad as we’ve stated our OL has been, our RB’s have actually been very good.
While we are only averaging 4.4 yards per carry, a lot of that is Joe Williams’ fault.
McCormick has the most carries and is averaging 6.1 y/c.
Moss is second in carries and is averaging 6.4 y/c.
Next comes Williams and he averaged 3.4 y/c.
Finally Shyne is averaging 5.6 y/c.
I think it’s save to say that McCormick and Moss are weapons. They have averaged good numbers vs bad defenses and against good defenses.
McCormick averaged 4.6 vs SUU, 6.2 vs BYU and 8.7 vs SJSU
Moss averaged 4.8 vs BYU and 7.9 vs SJSU
Shyne averaged 2.4 vs SUU and 7.7 vs SJSU
I think one takeaway is that our OL is getting better.
Our OL played relatively poorly against SUU. Otherwise, the OL has not played that badly at all.
Most of the time, line play is a war of attrition. If both teams have decent technique and are equally talented, it comes down to who is better coached and conditioned for the late game. The team that is better on this front starts taking over in the late third quarter and fourth We saw this element against BYU. Sure, Moss ran well, but really our offensive line took that drive over and busted some big holes. Our coaching, conditioning, and some slightly better athleticism took over. While BYU is indeed G5, remember that they are playing with 24 year olds on the roster — their linemen are closer to P5 than not because they’re just plain bigger.
The exceptions are where one lineman just physically outmatches his opponent. This usually doesn’t happen much between P5 teams. Of course, a true top 5 team usually has a couple of these players who just physically overpower in all circumstances. Anyway, this is what happened against SJSU. Their defensive line was clearly overmatched and did a good job to hold their own through most of the first half. They didn’t stand a chance in the second.
I expect the rest of the season to look more like the BYU game for the O line, as we enter conference play. However, they didn’t have a bad game at all there. Let’s see how they do against USC.
Troy Williams vs Darnold
TW: 63%, 8.4 y/a, 4 TD, 4 INT (although the last INT vs BYU should not have been an INT)
SD: 64%, 6 y/a, 2 TD, 1 INT
SD has played a bit this year, although it was against second stringers in games SC wasn’t going to win. But, it was against Alabama and Stanford’s second stringers and they are no slouches.
VS Alabama he was 4/8, 29 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT
VS Stanford he was 5/7, 45 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT
I think he will come out throwing. I think that he believes he is the next great USC QB and he will try to prove that on the first drive.
I think Helton and Darnold will come out and try to prove to the world that they are SC and the future.
If I’m Scalley, I go full mode “bend don’t break” to start the game. Only send 3 to 4 on the blitz, back everyone else off in zone, and make Darnold make tough throws into tight, tight coverage. See if you can’t get an early TO to swing momentum big time to your team.
Also, Darnold is averaging 2.4 yards per carry. I don’t think he is the runner that everyone is making him out to be.
I agree. Losing Fitts was bad for us vs BYU. We do get Chris Hart back this week and I bet Pita T has been working on his contain a lot as well.
This is a HUGE opportunity for Pita T. He is an elite pass rusher, but hasn’t proven anything in the run game. If he can become a solid run stopper, at least eat up blocks and hold contain, his draft status would skyrocket.
Another good thing is that Whittingham and co. recruited Darnold heavily when he was in high school. They’ve got a lot of tape on him, and know him as a QB. I think that really plays to our advantage tonight.
Why on earth Clay Helton announced their QB change early on Monday, I have no idea.
I think Helton announced it Monday because his donors demanded him to make a change. It’s the only reasonable explanation. Helton basically was told to start Darnold.
With many new signups I’m getting people asking how to post images and videos. Images couldn’t be easier. Copy the IMAGE URL and then click the IMG button in the text controls above the message area. Paste in the url. Done. More here:
https://www.utehub.com/forums/topic/how-to-post-images-to-ute-hub/
Youtube videos “should” post automatically to the regular forum area if you just PASTE IN THE YOUTUBE VIDEO URL. Don’t do the iframe thing. That’s a security issue here. The threaded view on the home page may or may not show the video, but if you click the OPEN button to go into the regular forum area the video should appear.
If you have problems with a photo or video, let me know and I’ll try to help you! You can also find help in the “How to Use Ute Hub Forum Area.”
Tony – Any chance you can include these instruction in some type of help section so we can use it for reference at a later date?
There is a HOW TO USE UTE HUB section I linked to in the end of that post.
ALSO, there is a SEARCH here and believe it or not, it actually WORKS! Just type in how to post images and voila!
BOOM!
Yep, saw it as soon as I clicked submit. Sorry for being a dumbass
No worries. Also should mention if you go to the Forum menu, there’s a FORUM INDEX which shows all the categories too. Might help you find certain content.
The text composer thingy is kind of a built in function, but maybe I can find a way of putting a HELP button in there. I’ll put that on the list of stuff to look at.
Thanks Tony.
Poof, nevermind.
1- Start fast on offense. We are 3-0, but we have been sluggish on offense at the beginning of each game.
2- Pressure Darnold with the front 4, early and often. We need as many guys as possible to cover Juju.
3- Establish the run, to open up the play action game. Tim Patrick will play a significant role.
4- Limit turnovers.
Utes win 24-16
I might just add
5 – don’t kick to Adoree Jackson
(click open)
How do you post Vids and images?
Welcome Bopahull! Glad to see the tradition continues even if the site changes.
Fixed it for you. You can’t iframe stuff here (at least yet).
Welcome. Tony.
Thanks Tony. I actually signed on to this site about a week after it opened. I have gradually been visiting the Hub more and more. I now spend a little more of my fan time here than on UFn.
IT’S GAME DAY!!!!!!!!!! GO UTES!!!!!!!!!! SKIN THE BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!
Curious to see if Scalley continues his aggressive calls for pressure to the QB going into PAC play. Sitake had a similar philosophy but this led to many big play losses. Pease was very different in philosophy by focusing on solid coverage and defensive balance. Pease’s style was the approach used in our best result in the PAC12. Blitzing works well when the secondary is solid. LB are new but have done well and the secondary has looked good. What do you think we’ll see going into PAC play? Can this team hold up on blitz heavy defensive calls in the weekly grind of the PAC12?
Arguably the blitzing nearly cost us the game against byu. They carved us up in that last drive. It has been very aggressive. Not sure that will be too much gambling when we get up against better defenses and better athletes. Tomorrow will be interesting.
Was it because of blitzing, or loosing Kylie Fitts?
I don’t see them sending Marcus on a blitz, as he’s too valuable roaming in the secondary, but I think you’ll see Chase in the USC backfield quite a bit tomorrow night.
With Kylie Fitts in the game I do not believe Taysom would have been able to break free
Indeed, one defender left his feet. And Puta was head hunting more than keeping contain. I think that can be fixed though.
The aggressive defensive schemes have worked quite well, except a major issue was exposed at key times by Taysom Hill and a few times by SJSU, and that is the our linebackers are being a bit too aggressive in their blitzing to the point where they are overpursuing and leaving their feet.
Tauteoli is a rocket coming into the backfield but he tends to leave his feet and whiff on tackles because of it. Barton does pretty well to stay assignment sound but he needs to wrap up better, case in point he had Taysom dead to rights 3 yards in the backfield on the 2-point conversion and he Taysom squirmed out of a weak tackle. Luckily the D-Line was there ready to wrap up Hill.
If the D-Line maintains good containment and our LBs play assignment-sound football I think we’ll be celebrating a win tomorrow night.
GO UTES!
When it comes to foul weather, the blackout theme doesn’t take priority to warmth.
The blackout was pretty cool back in the MWC days. TCU ’08 was amazing. Wyoming ’09 was kinda meh. And TCU ’10 was humiliating. We should have stopped there.
TCU was a disaster for more reasons than the scoreboard. Who does a blackout during the day? Stupid.
Agreed, I’d rather people be warm and cheer than try to achieve the blackout. I’m taking my whole winter set up
Frostbite eventually turns black.
Target has black rain ponchos to cover the navy blue
I’m planning on the always fashionable – Black Trash Sack.
