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So, Utah is a MWC school. When Urban was here, he talked about how Utah's #1's were as good as anybody's. He always said that the #2's is where you saw the non-BCS come through.
Utah joins the PAC-12, and when they have their 1's going, they do pretty good. They almost beat USC down in LA, had the lead on Washington, then Wynn got hurt, Hays came in (#2) and you saw that Utah was screwed at that point. Hays did a valiant job, but he just wasn't a PAC-12 QB. Utah still won 8 games and did better than TCU their first year in a BCS conference. Then the next year happened. Again, Utah's best offensive player, White, gets hurt, and Utah gets crushed. That depth came through again.
Fast forward to 2013. We finally have depth. We have PAC-12 OL men. We are 4 deep at RB. We are 7 deep at WR. 3 deep at TE. DL is stacked as usual. We have depth at CB and S.
So, Utah finally has depth, the problem now is, they need experience. Year 3, and Utah is progressing right where they should be.
And that makes Utah the Arizona of the PAC-12?
Anyone who says that this early is a fucking idiot. Sorry, you are.
There is nothing to show that Utah is Washington State or Arizona. Nothing at all. Not once has Utah had a PAC-12 QB. It looks like they have at least three now. Not once has Utah had a PAC-12 RB (size and speed wise). They have that now. Same with OL, etc.
Everything points to the fact that Utah should be able to have similar success to Washington. A scouting service just said that Utah is the #3 state in the West as far as high school recruits go, just passing Washington. Over the last 20 some odd years, Washington has been to the Rose Bowl a little over 20% of the time, or about once in every 5 years.
As everything stands right now, that should be Utah's goal. There isn't any reason why they can't accomplish that. They have the facilities, they have the high school prospects, they have the resources. Utah's coaches just need to go out and get the job done.
Finally, Utah made up some story about the PAC-12 saying "no" to November games? Give me a break. Not once has the University said that. All along, Hill has said Utah wants to play an A game, a B game and a C game. BYU is an A game. Michigan is an A game. Michigan is a better A game than BYU. So BYU got bumped. That's it. Nothing else to it. This "no" to November games is cougarboard bullshit made up to prove that the PAC-12 is a bunch of bigots, when that is not the case at all.
Before you go off spouting about who is afraid of who, maybe you should realize that the last 20 years, Utah has beat BYU in Provo 70% of the time. BYU is Utah's bitch. Yeah, that screams fear to me.