Ultimate respect for Utah. Tough gritty program. Most teams get blown out with 3rd/4th stringers in...Always welcome to come back to the PAC. Whittingham is a STUD!
Ultimate respect for Utah. Tough gritty program. Most teams get blown out with 3rd/4th stringers in...Always welcome to come back to the PAC. Whittingham is a STUD!
I just checked and Utah's offense is ranked 122nd out of 133 FBS programs. They're only averaging 297.6 yards per game. Those are high school, a bad high school, numbers. Offensive philosophy has always been Whittingham 's bugaboo...in some ways, he's kind of this generation's Woody Hayes.
You're being far too harsh...Can't replace a two and three year starter at QB...with all the other injuries, to have those numbers and be 4-1, ranked in the Top-10 is a tribute to his coaching. When his team gets healthy, they will be back. I remember watching them at Reser when he first entered the PAC-12 Conference and how woefully under sized and out-manned they were, and yet, within 3 short years, they were a force and he's continued to be a force every year since. This may be an injury-bug year...as a coach with 30 years experience, you can't overcome the injury bug. But to be 4-1 with those numbers, I consider that a huge win for him. He knows he's under-manned, and he's playing a defensive field position game to keep the game within reach heading into winning time (4th quarter). That is his brilliance. Respectfully, you need to take another look at what they are doing through a different lens. You have to have the horses for one, and they have to be healthy for two...when those two align again, Utah will be a force in all three phases. Rock on - Go Utes!
I'm not being too harsh at all. I'm just being upfront and honest. I take it that you don't follow Utah on a day to day basis. Am I right? If you did, you'd know that Whittingham, for all of his accolades, has a number of defects with being able to develop a consistent offense being probably the most egregious. He's a tremendous defensive coach but, except for a couple of notable exceptions, his teams have always underperformed on the offensive side of the ball.
Then there's the issue with Rising...how a guy as experienced as Whittingham failed to see that a player in the most important position in the game and just coming back from a catastrophic injury maybe wouldn't be able to play a significant portion of the schedule is beyond me. He could have easily gone into the portal and gotten an experienced QB transfer as insurance but failed to do so. So now we're stuck with an injured walk-on and a scatback masquerading as a signal caller for possibly the remainder of the season. Do you think there's one DC in the entire PAC at this moment that's losing sleep at facing Utah's offense? I highly doubt it.
Lastly, did you know that quite a few of the current injured players on Utah's team were hurt during the spring and summer pre-season camps? Yeah, evidently Kyle felt that the Utes came into the 2022 season soft and didn't want that to happen again. So he had them hitting early and often in pads during the camps, leading to a number of injuries to key players.
Oh well, it is what it is...I'm going to a bunch of games starting with Cal but keeping my expectations low. Maybe they'll win enough games to qualify for a bowl but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Ultimate respect for Utah. Tough gritty program. Most teams get blown out with 3rd/4th stringers in...Always welcome to come back to the PAC. Whittingham is a STUD!
I just checked and Utah's offense is ranked 122nd out of 133 FBS programs. They're only averaging 297.6 yards per game. Those are high school, a bad high school, numbers. Offensive philosophy has always been Whittingham 's bugaboo...in some ways, he's kind of this generation's Woody Hayes.
You're being far too harsh...Can't replace a two and three year starter at QB...with all the other injuries, to have those numbers and be 4-1, ranked in the Top-10 is a tribute to his coaching. When his team gets healthy, they will be back. I remember watching them at Reser when he first entered the PAC-12 Conference and how woefully under sized and out-manned they were, and yet, within 3 short years, they were a force and he's continued to be a force every year since. This may be an injury-bug year...as a coach with 30 years experience, you can't overcome the injury bug. But to be 4-1 with those numbers, I consider that a huge win for him. He knows he's under-manned, and he's playing a defensive field position game to keep the game within reach heading into winning time (4th quarter). That is his brilliance. Respectfully, you need to take another look at what they are doing through a different lens. You have to have the horses for one, and they have to be healthy for two...when those two align again, Utah will be a force in all three phases. Rock on - Go Utes!
I'm not being too harsh at all. I'm just being upfront and honest. I take it that you don't follow Utah on a day to day basis. Am I right? If you did, you'd know that Whittingham, for all of his accolades, has a number of defects with being able to develop a consistent offense being probably the most egregious. He's a tremendous defensive coach but, except for a couple of notable exceptions, his teams have always underperformed on the offensive side of the ball.
Then there's the issue with Rising...how a guy as experienced as Whittingham failed to see that a player in the most important position in the game and just coming back from a catastrophic injury maybe wouldn't be able to play a significant portion of the schedule is beyond me. He could have easily gone into the portal and gotten an experienced QB transfer as insurance but failed to do so. So now we're stuck with an injured walk-on and a scatback masquerading as a signal caller for possibly the remainder of the season. Do you think there's one DC in the entire PAC at this moment that's losing sleep at facing Utah's offense? I highly doubt it.
Lastly, did you know that quite a few of the current injured players on Utah's team were hurt during the spring and summer pre-season camps? Yeah, evidently Kyle felt that the Utes came into the 2022 season soft and didn't want that to happen again. So he had them hitting early and often in pads during the camps, leading to a number of injuries to key players.
Oh well, it is what it is...I'm going to a bunch of games starting with Cal but keeping my expectations low. Maybe they'll win enough games to qualify for a bowl but I'm not holding my breath on that one.