Sounds like they're keeping fans and media out of a fair amount of practices this spring.
Sounds like they're keeping fans and media out of a fair amount of practices this spring.
With the changes coming on offense I'm not surprisedOriginally Posted by Dwight Schr-Ute
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I will try to get up there as much as possible.
Reggie Dunn joins the staff as a recruiting assistant.
2017 starting line up! Take it to the bank!!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...6/spring_1.pdf
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Some interesting tidbits:
Caleb Repp at DE, Troy McCormick as a slot receiver, and Karsen Liljenquist back up LB to name a few.
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Old news.
Repp is a DE. As is Davr Hamilton.
Fun to have a Kruger back on the DL.
Cooper Bateman is a QB.
McCormick and Nacua are WR's.
Where are our real TEs?
they left with Roderick
Fakailoatonga is going to be a monster in Taylor's offense if he can stay healthy, and I suspect Handley will be a very good player in this system as well.
Where's Jaylon Johnson?2017 starting line up! Take it to the bank!!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sit...6/spring_1.pdf
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Don't think he's an early enrollee.
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ASU.
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There is a good chance our starting CB's won't even get here until fall. I don't know if that is good or terrible. Great opportunity for Smith, Blackmon and Burgess.
What do you mean by this? Are there grade issues that could keep them off campus all summer?
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No, nothing like that. I just said fall because that is when pads come back on. Johnson and Guidry are high school kids that won't be here until summer and Lewis is a JC guy who won't be here until summer. All three have tons of potential. Johnson is Bolles level talent. He has an amazing chance to start from day one.
If I had to pick today, I'd say Johnson and Smith start at outside CB's and NB is Burgess come game one. With Ballard and Hansen at safety and Luafatasaga and Tauteoli at LB with Blair pulling a Luafatasaga and ends up starting over Tauteoli by the end of the year.
TE's:
Fakailoatonga
Handley
Falemaka
Hekking
A few off the top of my head.
That is a good list.
Chad Hekking has all- conference potential at TE (though probably not until his Jr or Sr year). IIRC he was a RS last year.
As a HS JR he was big (6'4", 220#), strong (bench 10x @ 225, squat 425), and fast (...For his size, 4.9s 40yd). He played QB in HS, and also played basketball and ran 110 hurdles in track. Now he is listed at 240#, and has Coach Elisaia building him up.
And his brother Brock (who plays LB for the Chargers) posseses perhaps the greatest powermullet in history.
Last edited by NorthwestUteFan; 03-07-2017 at 04:38 PM.
Whitt also said that Repp is up to 225 and pushing hard for time at DE.
He also said they are excited for Smith at CB. Reminds them of Sean Smith and McGill.
Buy them again, maybe Hekking will turn out to be a spectacular LB or DE..m
I think basketball disappointment created a black hole for spring ball info. Hans Olsen was there the whole time and had some comments, but I haven't seen anything else substantive that isn't being one of the pay sites. Monson has some fluff piece in the Trib that was probably written three weeks ago and has no practice details. DesNews is a little better, but Goon was in Vegas, so besides a few quotes, no details. Can anyone point me in a better direction?
I'm not listening, but I can only assume that Olsen talked about practice on the radio this morning. Some of his more interesting Twitter comments:
Fotu could be better on the o-line than d-line. Also thinks he's needed there more than the defense.
LBs will take a huge step forward.
Thinks Bateman may be the best fit at QB for this offense.
Also said that he'll withhold comment on Repp at DE until it plays out. Makes me think it wasn't pretty.
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Also, speaking of spring and rosters, I listened to the most recent 4th and Long podcast with Andy Phillips and Tom Hackett. I haven't listened to Hackett as an official 700 employee but it will be interesting to watch what happens there. The kid is a straight talker and will provide a very honest point of view from his perspective. I can't imagine Bill Reilly making half the comments he did. Andy and Tom went through the spring ball two deep and talked about the position group. Tom about laughed out loud when Andy suggested that Domo's skills would be missed in the back field this year. Neither were very rosy about our kicking game next year.
Andy also went on a bit of an interesting rant against Hill. He compared him to Holmoe who apparently works hard to have a good relationship with all his student athletes to Hill who doesn't even acknowledge student athletes when passing in the hallway.
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Anyone planning on attending this afternoon's scrimmage? Now that uf.n has been resurrected, I'm sure there will be a few write ups just curious if I should expect any analysis here. Any commentary would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Saturday's scrimmage has been cancelled/moved to Tuesday.
http://www.utahutes.com/news/2017/4/...-canceled.aspx
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Jaylon Johnson's older brother who was listed as a starter at CB. Could be something interesting to watch.
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Very interesting. I think Utah has probably had a "Help Wanted: Graduate Transfer CBs and OTs inquire within" sign hanging at the football office. Although, between the incoming recruits and the reports it sounds like we have some good options to fill those CB slots and replace last year's underperforming veteran group. It would be kind of cool to have a Johnson and Johnson combo in the secondary.
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Because CB is never wrong.
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Watched the scrimmage today:
They threw the ball a lot. Scattered success. Williams looked better throwing, Huntley looked better running. Bateman only played at the very end, with 3rd team O against 3rd team D. He stood out but hard to tell much as level of play was really low. He & Tyquez Hampton--early entry FR teamed up for 3 TDs. (really nice throws).
Center snaps were an issue. 2nd team O line was not very good. 1st team DBs were good.
D. Henry-Cole looked good at running back. Many empty backfields & others were 1 back sets.
Kickers were bad.
O needs work.
Henry-Cole looks good today. I like his decisive cuts and let churn.
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