Official UofU homer thread

[prodigy]

From a utefans post-

I think Kyle is an excellent football coach. The following is a general observation on my part.

We don't seem to attack our opponents vulnerabilities. We seem intransigent in our game plans, married to the singular idea of what we want to do, seemingly blind to what would give us a greater chance for success. We have a solid coach who is not showing to be opportunistic as a strategist.

I wonder how successful would Coach A be if he was freed from the "play to not lose" yoke?

As always, I could be wrong. This is my impression.

 

[Jazz and Utes]

I'm not calling for Whitt's job, honestly think we could win next week and still go on and play in a good bowl game. Just very frustated that we will miss out on another pac-12 cg

Agreed and my post was just in general, not directed at anyone in particular. Very frustrating indeed but we're getting close.

 

[leftyjace]

OK. Now that I've had a chance to breath, here goes.

OUCH.

Fire Whit? **** you. No ****ing way. He does a great job with the talent he gets. And who the hell would we replace him with? Are you serious? There is no Urban Meyer out there right now. Hell, there is no Kyle Whittingham out there right now.

Fire A-Rod? Abso-****ing-lutely. Yesterday. It's time for a big-boy OC who won't be so damn predictable and keep running plays that fail time and time again in the SAME DAMN GAME. A-Rod called the plays, and couldn't get anything going. It's just time for him to go.

Teaching people how to tackle and wrap up is on the position coaches. I have never seen so many missed tackles. It was a travesty.

 

[prodigy]

Watching WSU-CU replay. WSU couldn't stop the QB run, which was a problem because CU ran Liufau, a lot. So much so he got banged up a bit but came back in later.

We have to have sure tackling against them. Which is to say we have to tackle a whole helluva lot better than we did vs OU.

CU's DB's probably impressed me the most. Held Falk to just a 49.1% completion rate, really impressive considering he averages over 70%.

It's going to be tough, they have a lot of momentum heading into the game. One thing we can't do is beat ourselves, we have to play mistake free football.

Joe Williams may be the most down after the OU lost but we need him the most this game.

Going into the game CU had a long losing streaks vs ranked teams. Let's hope we can start a new losing streak for them.

 

[prodigy]

This is uncharted territory for the Buffs. See how they respond if Utah comes out pissed off. I will be traveling to the game, my first true road game experience for a pac-12 ute game.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

What were the tackling issues? I didn't see the game. Anything related to the whole focus on stripping the ball thing?

 

[fishonjazz]

This is uncharted territory for the Buffs. See how they respond if Utah comes out pissed off. I will be traveling to the game, my first true road game experience for a pac-12 ute game.

Thats pretty cool man. Have fun!

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

This is uncharted territory for the Buffs. See how they respond if Utah comes out pissed off. I will be traveling to the game, my first true road game experience for a pac-12 ute game.

You going to smoke that doja to cope with the pain of the Buffs stampeding on that Ute's ***?

 

[leftyjace]

What were the tackling issues? I didn't see the game. Anything related to the whole focus on stripping the ball thing?

Fair question. I don't think so. I think it was just trying to "hit" them, and not "wrap" them. Leading with a lot of shoulder, and not trying to wrap them up to tackle or slow them down until help came. We have had problems swarming to the ball. But the swarming starts with the first guy to hit the ball carrier. If the first guy bounces off, then the ball carrier can regain some momentum making it hard to swarm.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Utah basketball really went all out with their first 4 games on their OOC schedule this year lmao.

 

[leftyjace]

Utah basketball really went all out with their first 4 games on their OOC schedule this year lmao.

Yep - took a page from the SEC football scheduling rulebook.

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

Fair question. I don't think so. I think it was just trying to "hit" them, and not "wrap" them. Leading with a lot of shoulder, and not trying to wrap them up to tackle or slow them down until help came. We have had problems swarming to the ball. But the swarming starts with the first guy to hit the ball carrier. If the first guy bounces off, then the ball carrier can regain some momentum making it hard to swarm.

I also think it can be in part to poor LB play, not just tackling but being in the right spots which leads them to more miss-tackles than just being poor tacklers, as much as I love the Barton family Cody has been a major disappointment IMO, after the LB core being the main reason the 2nd is Hatfield is just not a strong tackler, which can be said about many CB's but he's even poor for CB's. Like you mentioned you watch other good team defense and they swarm, Utah hasn't had that enough this year.

Crap there was a stat I read this morning that would've been great here but can't think of it right now.....

Anyway IMO this is on the offense for not generating more possessions, it wore out the defense and they collapsed and let the team down at the end, which never should've happened had the offense generated any kind of momentum in that first half.


Oh and it will never happen but when LSU fires Ed Orgeron, it would be awesome if somehow the U could hire him as the DLine coach and whatever other tags/titles you can put on him, as from what little I know of him he's one heck of a recruiter.