https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2022/12/28/qa-utah-womens-basketball-coach/

This team is so fun and exciting to watch! Get out and support the UNDEFEATED and absolutely BEST team in the state right now! I bought season tix for $25 so its cheap and fun

LETS GO UTES!!!!

NittanyNation’s Justin Morganstein shares his insight into a Penn State team with a lot of similarities to Utah:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/rose-bowl-q-a-penn-state

Here’s a link to my Q&A with Penn State:

https://pennstate.rivals.com/news/behind-enemy-lines-q-a-with-utesnation-previewing-the-rose-bowl

For any of you who would like to watch my Rose Bowl Preview episodes, here they are:

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Now we know why the Athletics department was doing that fun list last night. Arnie Ferrin has passed away at 97.

https://utah.rivals.com/news/utah-athletics-mourns-the-passing-of-arnie-ferrin

We’ve entered Rose Bowl game week! Let’s take a look at the burning questions:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/burning-questions-utes-ready-for-the-rose-bowl

He would have ran for 1,500-2,000 yards this year and been in the Heisman conversation. He was truly remarkable.

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First off, I don’t have a prediction. Basically both sides feel confident. The Colorado said it s confident, but without real confirmation. The Utah side gave me significantly higher odds than you’d think for a transfer that seems like a 50/50 toss-up.

Seydou needs to figure a new YouTube follower goal that’s even less than 8.5k that he’s still trying to get before announcing today, because 10k isn’t happening. Hell he’d need over 10 finalists’ fanbases for that to happen.

Merry Christmas, everybody! I hope you’re all getting spoiled and doing some spoiling, too—with gifts and/or love. I appreciate all of you so much.

As the story points out, Kyle started 2022 coaching the Utes in their first-ever Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 and is now ending the year preparing his team for its second-ever Rose Bowl. That’s an impressive year.
This may be behind a paywall if you don’t subscribe to the Tribune, but it’s a good read:

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I spoke with with Seydou tonight, who first played in a real football when he was 18. He was a fan of all sports in London, so he watched a lot of football.

Seydou wants to decide fore the New Year, which means it’s either Utah or Colorado (he’s tripped both), unless a team like Louisville can convince him to take a quick trip. He has no other trips plans right now though.

Traore said playing for the back to back Pac-12 champs is a big deal and that Kincaid’s dominance tells him he’d have the potential to get the ball a lot. He loves how Utah use the tight ends and their track record.

The offensive system is what’s important to him. He just wants the opportunity to get the ball frequently.

Let’s here who you’re most excited for and why? I’ll be putting a recap article out soon.

Arkansas State’s Seydou Traore just visited Utah:

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Midwest analyst Clint Cosgrove wrote this nice breakdown on Randle Jr.:

https://rivals.rivals.com/news/commitment-breakdown-four-star-rb-john-randle-jr-commits-to-utah

Starting five: Branden Carlson, Ben Carlson, Gabe Madsen, Marco Anthony, Rollie Worster

$$$$

The Utes rally fell just short against No. 20 TCU:. Here are the takeaways:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-utes-rally-falls-short-against-tcu

Okay, so two more guys to go and I’m looking into it. With Kainoa, remember I told everyone that the info close to the program was mixed on whether he was offered a scholarship or a PWO. The PWO comment came from someone close to the very close situation. That could be why there’s nothing announce for him, but I’m looking into it.

As for Mitchell, I reached out to a source close to the program that would absolutely know what’s going on a bit ago to make sure it was still happening and they responded like they weren’t sure what was up.

I’m still looking into both things.

With Mitchell in, that’s everyone that was expected. Now a few quick things:

-Mitchell had his NIL signed around 10am this morning. There was a hurdle that came up, but mainly because of questions by the family on some of the paperwork. One of Mitchell’s coaches explained everything and then the NLI was sent in. That’s the hold up, but there were some moments of worry with that today.

-Wilson is such an interesting deal that it’s probably good that Utah moved on from him. I’m told that they kept it quiet from everyone about dropping in hopes they could have him as a preferred walkon. There was a lot going on here though, and instead he resurface at Arizona.

-Carvalho will be retweeting the same stuff that the program is tweeting (if he hasn’t already). He’s initially going to be a PWO who could get a scholarship once he’s back off of his mission.

The defensive lineman from the Kahuku trio makes it official: