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green said:
Man, that was a rough game. No defense at all. I'm not optimistic for this year.
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As up and down as they are right now, I get really excited when I look at the roster. There's only 2 seniors getting minutes on this team. There's still going to be many more rough spots this year, but I think this Utah team will look drastically better at the end of the season as opposed to the beginning and I think in 2017/18, they're challenging for a PAC 12 title.
 
jazzman12 said:
As up and down as they are right now, I get really excited when I look at the roster. There's only 2 seniors getting minutes on this team. There's still going to be many more rough spots this year, but I think this Utah team will look drastically better at the end of the season as opposed to the beginning and I think in 2017/18, they're challenging for a PAC 12 title.
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I agree with this. This is still a crazy talented team. Can they learn to play defense? Can they learn to play together? If so, watch out. K hasn't had this much talent yet.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Awful QB play

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Troy Williams is just too inaccurate. I feel like we saw Huntley so much last night because the coaching staff really wants this kid to push for the starting job this offseason. At least, that's what I hope anyway. Our offensive problems aren't going away anytime soon. It was the same old **** last night. The bummer in all of this is, I just don't see Whitt being able to hire the right OC and actually stay out of his way. It's something he's NEVER been able to do during his tenure at Utah, so I don't see why that would all of a sudden change after 12 years. We've hit our ceiling.
 
jazzman12 said:
Troy Williams is just too inaccurate. I feel like we saw Huntley so much last night because the coaching staff really wants this kid to push for the starting job this offseason. At least, that's what I hope anyway. Our offensive problems aren't going away anytime soon. It was the same old **** last night. The bummer in all of this is, I just don't see Whitt being able to hire the right OC and actually stay out of his way. It's something he's NEVER been able to do during his tenure at Utah, so I don't see why that would all of a sudden change after 12 years. We've hit our ceiling.
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I thought the same thing last night as well. Seeing Huntley smile like that...they cemented his place as a Ute. Now, they can go into spring ball with an open competition, Huntley in fully invested, and we can see what happens. I still think Troy has the inside track to win the job, but it would be nice to have a "real" QB competition.

The NCAA will vote to add an additional coach to the staff. If/when that happens, here is what I'd like to see happen:

Cut ARod loose. It's time to move on.
Promote Harding to OC.
Hire a QB coach.
Hire another OL coach.

Our offense would look like this:

OC - Harding
QB - New guy. I'd like someone like Brian Wright from Toledo. He has been an OC forever. Make him Co-OC with Harding. Wright has transitioned teams from pro style to spread/up tempo before as well. He could be good to help Whitt along with his concerns of an uptempo/spread offense. Also, Wright has experience in Florida, helping that pipeline stay open.
RB - Erickson. If Erickson retires, see if you can have Erickson still stick around in as a recruiting coordinator or such to help in Florida. Then, hire someone with ties to Florida. Or, abandon Florida altogether and go all in with Texas.
WR - Guy Holliday
TE - Fred
OL - Harding/New Guy

Scalley - DC/safeties
Shah - CB
Ena - LB
Powell - DL

Whitt - special teams/defense
 
The offense gets in it's own damn way far too often. TO's, penalties, and poor execution/play calling have killed this team. I feel the coaches are at least partially responsible. How can you not tell your starting QB to throw the ****ing ball out of play instead of taking a 3-7 yard loss? Williams did that at least 4 times in the bowl game. He doesn't seem to know that it's an option, which is all on the coaching staff. Why run out of bounds 5 yards from the LOS if your a QB? That should almost never happen.
 
gregbroncs said:
The offense gets in it's own damn way far too often. TO's, penalties, and poor execution/play calling have killed this team. I feel the coaches are at least partially responsible. How can you not tell your starting QB to throw the ****ing ball out of play instead of taking a 3-7 yard loss? Williams did that at least 4 times in the bowl game. He doesn't seem to know that it's an option, which is all on the coaching staff. Why run out of bounds 5 yards from the LOS if your a QB? That should almost never happen.
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I really loved the play calling when Utah was trying to tack on a FG at the end of the first half. You're running out of time, do not have your full compliment of timeouts, you're in Indiana territory, and you call consecutive running plays up the gut. Great stuff A-Rod!

I like Green's way of thinking but it comes right back to the point of: What does any of those moves matter when Whitt is just going to stifle his OC? Let's be honest with ourselves Ute fans: OC's don't come to Utah and mold Whitt into their style of thinking. Whitt beats every single one of them into submission.
 
jazzman12 said:
I really loved the play calling when Utah was trying to tack on a FG at the end of the first half. You're running out of time, do not have your full compliment of timeouts, you're in Indiana territory, and you call consecutive running plays up the gut. Great stuff A-Rod!

I like Green's way of thinking but it comes right back to the point of: What does any of those moves matter when Whitt is just going to stifle his OC? Let's be honest with ourselves Ute fans: OC's don't come to Utah and mold Whitt into their style of thinking. Whitt beats every single one of them into submission.
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I was so frustrated with the offense in this game. Red zone issues continued to haunt this team. It took 7 ****ing plays after 1st and goal from the 1, to finally score a TD. Any other time they made the red zone it was a FG. I have no confidence in this offensive coaching staff, none. If you can't even slightly improve your red zone issues with almost a month off then when the hell are you going to fix that issue.
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Oh and the offensive line continually committing obvious penalties is aggravating as well.
 
jazzman12 said:
Troy Williams is just too inaccurate. I feel like we saw Huntley so much last night because the coaching staff really wants this kid to push for the starting job this offseason. At least, that's what I hope anyway. Our offensive problems aren't going away anytime soon. It was the same old **** last night. The bummer in all of this is, I just don't see Whitt being able to hire the right OC and actually stay out of his way. It's something he's NEVER been able to do during his tenure at Utah, so I don't see why that would all of a sudden change after 12 years. We've hit our ceiling.
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Huntley looked pretty good from what I watched.
Had a really nice deep pass and looked fast as ****.
 
I don't know if Huntley is our QB next fall, but he is the best QB prospect in the state right now.

I'd take him over any QB in Utah.

I just hope he thickens up so he doesn't get hurt.
 
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