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

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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:

Utah lands another strong running back from the state of Florida:

Clint Cosgrove is joined by Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham to break down the Utes' 2023 recruiting class👇

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Four are already on the board with Howard, Clegg, Zipperer and Alderman. Here are some of the known commitment times:

Jonathan Hall: looks like he already signed, just waiting on official word

Caleb Lomu: 9 am mst

Brock Fonoimoana, Kainoa Carvalho and Stanley Raass: 12 pm mst

Mateaki Helu: 12 pm mst

Dijon Stanley: 12:30 pm mst

Mikey Matthews: 2 pm mst

People are facebook are panicking about his recent tweet. Is there something going on behind the scenes?

Spencer Fano is in:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-spencer-fano-ol

Utah adds to the DL with their latest signee:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-jonah-leaea-de

The LA Times high school ball player of the year is the latest signee:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-dijon-stanley-rb

So these things can be interesting. Usually kids announce when they’ve been dropped and they spin it to a family decision, so this one fell through the cracks of everyone. Wilson was dropped by Utah two months ago. Then he never put anything out publicly. Arizona can advertise this as a flip, but Wilson never even tripped Utah (something I did think was interesting and odd).

WOW. The lack of patience and development on some QB's is crazy. He could be a legit number 2 if he stayed here. So interesting to see players like him, Tuttle, Slovis, JT Daniels, even Jake Heaps and MANY more. I get they wanna play, but on rare occasion you play as a freshman and don't need development. Many times PT merits a transfer if they want to play. I find this all fascinating from a Social Science perspective. Coaching movement doesn't help the situation also. So many parts to this with no guardrails also. They should get one transfer then lose a year of eligibility IMO.