John Wilner article on PAC-12 Presidents/Chancellors committment to football. Interesting read. Wilner suggests that CU’s hiring of Deion Sanders is a serious commitment to football. Kliakoff has stated that he will include a discussion of football ROI in every meeting with his 12 bosses. Wilner gives a summary of the earnings/salary ofvthe head coaches. Coach Whitt is the #2 highest paid coach in the conference at $6.83M per year, behind only Riley at ~$10M.

I am unable to make it to the game on Thursday. If anyone here would like a good experience at the game, I have 4 seats and two parking passes. This team is shaping up well. Hit me up here or DM me. Just let me know! Go Utes!!!

The recruiting momentum is real folks. This is what happens when you’re crowned back-to-back Pac-12 champs. More coming soon, too…

Is Jay Hill really on his way to BYU? Great coach and certainly will do well. It just hurts my heart a little.

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This is a big one. He was Stanford’s leading tackler. Think of him in the same mold as Gabe Reid for next year. His ESPN profile shows him as a senior, but I actually think he had two years of eligibility because of Covid.

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When Whitt retires and if Scal gets a head-coaching job who moves up to the DC?

Jay Hill is out

Swan?
Shah?
DC outside of the Utah program.

My money is an outsider.

Your guess?

Looks like Damuni will come back and help fill up the LB room:

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Unfortunately this isn’t a surprise. He was buried on the depth chart after that early knee injury in 2021.

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Curious….

Clark….boom!

This tells you how much they like Blocker

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I’ve been asked why I don’t have him as a commit. I’ve received numerous confirmations that Omodia is a preferred walkon.

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It’s an impressive recruiting victory for the Utes.

Deion Sanders seems a strange fit to me but Colorado takes a big swing. What else will Colorado be willing to do? What can they do to be competitive?

Here’s Gorney’s article from their conversation yesterday…

https://n.rivals.com/news/utah-wins-out-in-tough-decision-for-four-star-ol-spencer-fano

I’m running with Utah on my Futurecast.

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Yes, it’s probably too early to be thinking this. But Joe Lunardi says it’s possible. He has the Utes in right now as an 11 seed.

Maybe Craig Smith will work out after all.

I may or may not have bought my airfare with three min left on the game! Price went up about 80 bones from noon the end of game! But I m going this year as I missed last year!

Ok…so I was watching the game live and it was clear that Williams only started noticeably limping (a very exaggerated limp) after his team was down. I looked fake to me and our group said to each other “the game is slipping away so he’s trying to save his heisman chances….a sympathy limp”. We joked that he’d blame the loss on injury. And then I listen to the postgame and both he and Riley are playing up the injury in the 1st quarter, long before he started limping around.

So…was Williams completely faking a limp to gain sympathy votes for his heisman campaign? Was there footage on tv that I missed live of him going into a trainers tent to get checked out? We’re trainers looking at him?

I think it was a show put on when Utah started dominating and sacking him. He cracked under pressure and needed a scapegoat. Maybe he say the playoffs slipping away, so thought “I can create a play through injury narrative and get the pass on this beat down”?

Awesome to see

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Better than expected start, especially being 2-0 in conference.

There are some definite problems that need fixing though. In our five non-punching bag games (Sam Houston, Ga Tech, Miss. St, Az and WSU) we have 61 less field goal attempts than our opponents, we are minus 23 on the off. boards and have 37 more turnovers.

BC and Gabe lead the team in TO's, many of which are unforced. Not sure how to clean that up but if Craig Smith and co. want to continue getting the big bucks they need to get that cleaned up.

As to our rotation, it's clear that at this point the coaches prefer Stefanovic over Exacte, Saunders and Holt and that Gavin Baxter and Luka Tarlac have fallen out of the rotation.

I'm not a big fan of Stefanovic as he's a poor shooter (36% from 2 and 31% from 3), takes a lot of shots (4th most on the team) and isn't a great defender. He does have an excellent A/T ration of 2.5/1 which is likely why he get the minutes he does at this point. Still, I don't think his ceiling is all that high and hope to see Exacte, Saunders and/or Holt cut into his minutes as they, hopefully, elevate their play.