My hurt breaks on this one. He was a good person who fought his demons, but was always so positive and encouraging to the people he encountered.

He has always wanted to help me on this site, but for varying reasons, I don’t believe he ever did.

I’ll miss my friend. I know there’s others on here that knew him well. He had the heart of a giant.

I’ll miss you, buddy 💔

Hey Ute fans - I just posted the video I did where I interviewed Trey Layton about NIL. He's got some great insights. It's about 40 minutes long but there are a number of really good nuggets in it. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Utes fall late. Here are the takeaways:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-runnin-utes-fall-short-at-the-buzzer

Thank you all for your support and making this such a great online community. Enjoy a relaxing day with family, good food and football… Oh, also watch the new Christmas Story Christmas. It’s a must!!!

What’s everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving dish that isn’t turkey?… I’ve gotta with stuffing drizzled with a little bit of gravy. I can eat that constantly.

Let’s get this thing rollin’…

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Great at home. But these road games have been, well……….. lacking.

The interwebs is full of good information and terrible information. Some that is right in their reporting and some that is wrong. I don't know where this falls into those categories - I am just sharing it. It also is in response to the thread of "Whitt hates NIL and Utah's inability to compete in it will be it's demise" talk.

Please scroll down until you come to #9 on the list.

A lot happening making us go Chicken Little and Eyeore this week. Not a lot of good news. Hoping for some Jon Wick stuff soon. Hang in there ya’all!

But how about them Lady Utes! Just bringing some positive! Love to see a packed center like gymnastics for them.

Andrew Armstrong went into the portal today and already had some big offers:

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Good luck to him. Unfortunately Utah needed to strengthen their defense and he was the odd man out when they shifted Bishop to nickelback. As of right now, that move isn’t expected to continue past this season. This isn’t a shock at all, he was really struggling.

Utah DB Malone Mataele announces he's in the portal

Ouch. I’ll look into this more.

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I was on a business trip to Boston and brought my wife - we went to dinner at this nice quaint Italian restaurant in the North End and we met a couple of college students. They were life-long friends and one was going to Harvard and the other at UT Austin (they both grew up in Texas). Both of these guys are big college football fans so we had a great conversation. The young man who will be graduating from Harvard this school year is majoring in Economics. He has a blog called Pigskin Economics and wrote a piece on NIL. I'm going to have him on my YouTube channel to talk about it. Here's a link to his article: https://pigskineconomics.beehiiv.com/p/football-fridays-changing-high-school-nil-landscape.

I’m speechless. Cam was off tonight and especially on crucial plays. Enis should have caught the damn fourth down pass and that’s proof why he doesn’t have to ball thrown to him really ever. Tavion was back to running unmotivated. The defense had an awful first half and an outstanding second half. Crappy tackling in the first half. The Utes absolutely blew out. You can’t spin this one even if you try to.

Vent away…

A great start and then the team showed a lot of resiliency against Georgia Tech. Here are the takeaways:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-runnin-utes-hold-on-late-68-64

Let’s get this thing rollin’… Here are the Utes starters:

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-Oregon made a few more plays than Utah. Utah had their chances and didn’t capitalize on offense. Giving up roughly 55 yards rushing and only 20 points should be good enough to win the game.

-They can’t have a hangover from the Oregon game. They have to pick themselves up and finish the season the right way. Then see what transpires.

-They rely heavily on analytics for FGs and there really were no questions on when they should avoid kicking it.

-The throw game was the most problematic area for Utah on Saturday.

-Regarding Rising’s lingering injury, Cam was out there on Saturday, so he’s good to good.

-Being disappointed if they only win nine regular season games should actually be a huge compliment now to how far the program has come with its constant expectations.

-It’s hard to score when you only get 5 yards at a time, so the lack of chunk yardage by the offense hurt them.

-He reiterated that the conference championship game is still a possibility.

-Four redshirt candidates have elected to use their redshirts. 3-4 others are still deciding and right on the cusp. He didn’t name all who.

He tweeted the following today:
Utah gets into champ game with: - win over Colo - UW beats WSU - OSU beats Oregon - UCLA beats Cal. The Utes need a UCLA win in order to send the tiebreaker to the fourth step, which they would win based on SOS.

I hope he is right. That improved my mood. The way Utah is playing, I only have a flicker of hope that Utah could beat USC in the CCG. I always think of Dumb and Dumber - So you're saying theres a chance. Go Beavs!

Yeah, there is still a chance for the Rose Bowl if a bunch of stuff happens but if the ball does not bounce our way which bowl would you rather go to?

For me I would rather go to the Las Vegas Bowl. Much closer to home against an SEC opponent at a great venue. I don't think the team would mind being done before Christmas either.

Ouch. Sam Houston Stare is a good team, but losing to them by 10 points on your home court isn’t good, at all:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-runnin-utes-lose-to-sam-houston-state

While a number of players made mistakes last night, with Cam Rising having an abysmal night. Utah's lack of confidence in their field goal kicker gets overlooked. I don't care what Redding does in practice, in a game, he looks like he is tied up in knots. There is nothing confident about his body language. Technically, he was 1 for 2. But, KW's lack of confidence in him has seemed to push us to go for it on 4th down more frequently than we did when we had solid kicking.

Here's a summary of kicks and 4th down attempts that might have been kicked.

Missed 38 yard field goal.
Made 45 yard field goal
4th and 3 from the Oregon 11 yard line. Utah goes for it and fails. Would have been approximately a 28 yard field goal
4th and 2 from the Oregon 26 yard line. Utah goes for it and fails. Would have been approximately a 43 yard field goal.

We need to address the deficiency at kicking field goals and kickoffs. So many games are won on a field goal. Two more made field goals change the outcome of this game. Some will blame it on KW being willing to go for it but you get the sense that KW has zero confidence in his field goal kicker.

We are also one of the few teams that can't force a touchback on kick offs.

Does anyone have any insight into our kicking situation?

Here are the takeaways. There is a lot to be frustrated over after that game. In one of the takeaways, it was time for brutal honesty about the kickers.

Let’s hear everyone else takeaways too:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-crucial-mistakes-doom-utah-against-oregon