Didn't Whit say o-line is a strength of the team for the past two years?
Originally Posted by jrj84105
Didn't Whit say o-line is a strength of the team for the past two years?
Plese indulge your sickening pornographic fantacies of Mullen being accessible to Utah in private.
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You think it's that easy? Just get a guy who can make some offense and we are awesome. That isn't how college football works. Whittingham is overachieving and Utah fans like you are delusional.
Exactly.....or was it QB depth?Didn't Whit say o-line is a strength of the team for the past two years?
I don't think we'll necesarily land Mullen or someone of his calibur, but to say that he's not better suited to our current situation (desperate need for offensive system above all else) is ludicrous. I don't think we even have to land a great coach to improve- we have just reached a point where we have certain continual problems and a HC who doesn't seem to have any aptitude for fixing those specific problems. I wouldn't be surprised if this change resulted in a downturn, but I also think the notion of Utah riding off into the sunset of continuous 9 win seasons with KW at HC and KS in a permanent holding pattern at DC with a rotating cast of less and less effective OC's is riduculously wishful thinking.
Last edited by jrj84105; 12-26-2014 at 02:42 PM.
Doesn't matter.
Utah is a basketball school. Wait -- it's a women's gymnastics school. Nope -- it's a skiing school. Ah, helllll...
Dave Christensen leaving for A&M is on Chris Hill (said no one ever).
Hmmm, let see Whitt has had 8 different people as the OC (clearly that's on Whitt),
but 2 coaches on the defensive side if the ball leave and that's on Chris Hill?
Not buying it.
Good gawd did I just enter the twilight zone? Fire Whitt. For who? Urban & Satan ain't available. We had a shot at Mullen 10 years ago and went with Whitt. Where were all the Mullen lovers then? Face it, he's in the SEC now making SEC money with no strong ties to Utah, the west or the P12.
Unless Hill got a lobotomy for Christmas, we replace our coordinators and move on. Maybe we can get Mullen's right hand man....Billy G? Run Whitt's D through Fifita, Toone or Scalley. If he fails, I mean legitimately fails, like Giac or Boylen....or its clear he's incapable of going to the next level, like Mac, then, and only then does Hill let him go. Seems to me there's a ways to go before we get there, however.
I hope this talk of replacing Whitt is a satirical piece in The Onion. Yikes!
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I honestly don't know what to believe. The local media had zero credibility before this week and everything I am hearing now is just plain ridiculous.
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Matt Piper today (caveat: who knows where he is getting his information, with so many agendas at work here):
Emails obtained through Utah’s open-records law show that Whittingham had suggested "a significant increase" in Sitake’s pay. Hill then offered what he considered a sizable raise for the defensive coordinator, a figure that was redacted in the Dec. 5 email but amounted to an increase of $50,000 per year over a two-year deal, according to a source.
"If this does not meet your expectations as a significant raise, please let me know," Hill wrote to Whittingham. "We do not want to lose Kalani to another defensive coordinator position so please let me know in that case if it involves money and/or other issues."
Hill made follow-up offers to Sitake, the amounts of which were unknown. A source said Hill’s inability to lock up Sitake made Whittingham feel that Hill was trying to sabotage his program.
The Utah athletic department declined to make either Hill or Whittingham available to comment for this story.
Christensen also was offered a two-year deal, and Tuiaki and other assistants were offered one-year deals by the U., which redacted the amount of the offers because negotiations were ongoing at the time of the records request.
Whittingham appears to have asked whether Tuiaki’s deal could be sweetened — Utah’s defense led the nation in sacks, with 52, largely due to Tuiaki’s position group — and Hill responded that his salary could be increased, but that he would not be offered a multiyear deal.
The emails also indicate that Whittingham inquired about his own deal. A source said the coach wanted a greater guarantee of his base salary, which he would receive if he were fired. His current contract, which runs through 2016, includes a base and guarantee of $750,000 per year. With additional income from side deals, the total package is worth $2.4 million.
Hill’s offer did not satisfy him, the source said, further straining the relationship. The source confirmed speculation that Whittingham has met with administrators at other schools.
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That last line in the piper article is interesting. Its pretty clear he is lookingarpund. But how seriously is the question.
Stay tuned
My source tells me Gary Patterson and his entire staff will be joining Utah for next season.
Haha!
This makes sense.
What about Mike Sanford Jr., the OC at Boise St. I watched a little bit of that game and it looks like he knows what he was doing. IMO, Boise's personnel is a lot more similar to what we have at Utah than the Oregon personnel. He runs a spread attack without designed QB run although he QB can get a few yards if the pass is not there. I wouldn't mind Sanford Jr. at all except I think it would be hard for guys like Erickson, Harding and ARod to work for a 32 year old.
I just want to say that I floated Sanford Jr last week before it was cool!
But, yeah, he runs and passes with balance. He knows how to use a good RB, and his QB led the nation in completion percentage. Boise also runs 1-2 trick plays per game.
They mentioned during the game yesterday that some other P5 went after Sanford Jr last year but could not convince him to come. I can't remember which school it was. He is a Boise State grad, and so is Bryan Harsin. They might just stick together up there. They have a pretty easy path to a NY6 Bowl every year.
edit: it was Vanderbilt that he turned down.
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Apparently, my 9-month old has strong opinions on next year's staff.
So I was just talking to a friend online and he mentioned that Dennis Erickson called the plays for the bowl game......Uh, is this a thing now or is it actually true?
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I don't recall the bowl game announcers calling the next play based on the formation, so it is safe to assume Dennis Erickson had something to do with it.
A report on another board says that Robert Anae is under conisderation. Kyle wouldn't do that, would he?
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I'm all for it. Anae has always been good. Just make sure he doesn't do the weird enter the field thing.
Anae's receivers ALWAYS catch the ball. That is a positive.
At least Kyle wouldn't let him talk to the media. That's Anae's biggest weakness.
I sure hope not. I want another top notch recruiter like Erickson.
In fact, I'd be perfectly happy making Erickson the O.C and letting him hire a strong recruiting position coach.
The more I think about the happier I'd be with Erickson, IF Erickson has the fire in the belly to do the job. Maybe A-Rod could be Assistant O.C. (but no more of the co-coordinator stuff, please -- "Roderickson," I can hear it now). The continuity would be good.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Roderickson, hahaha!
Boy I sure hope that doesn't happen.
Erickson is an offensive genius who's won a championship. If he wants it, the job should be his with no question about it. We're fortunate to have him on the staff.
Whoever ends up getting the job, I hope Kyle backs off and lets him run the offense.
And please, no zoobs.
I saw a report that Kyle has hired Cyrus Satoafaiga to be the LB coach. He played LB at Utah and graduated in 1998:
http://www.utahutes.com/sports/m-foo...8outlook.htmlv
Although there is a guy by that name in San Diego who is a psychotherapist, there's also a guy who coaches at Grossmont College by that name:
http://gctest.grossmont.edu/campus-l...OLY%20CAMP.pdf
Maybe Cyrus Satoafaiga is a psychotherapist who moonlights as a JC coach? Or maybe there is a father-son thing going on here.
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--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
I'd rather have arod. I'm done with guys whose offenses were modern 20 years ago.
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