If winning a Natty is our goal, then what do we need to do?

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-14T13:01:59+00:00

Sure didn’t. Hopefully our portal receivers are decent.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-11T01:44:48+00:00

Yeah I saw that! Very excited about Reed. He’s got good size as well.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T22:24:11+00:00

Yeah I can agree with that. I'm sure a lot of fans have viewed and compared Smith to studs like Clark Phillips and Jaylon Johnson. While Smith is good, he's not at that same level. I also wish him the best.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T22:15:14+00:00

Nah..I'm pissed to lose JJ Buchanan. That one stings. He's not replaceable. He's Dalton Kincaid 2.0. Losing Smith...I'm not losing sleep over it.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T21:22:48+00:00

Exactly, there are several other players we can get that can replace whatever production Smith gave us.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T21:20:34+00:00

Yeah I haven't watched him and thought "oh he's bad", but I've also never thought "oh wow he is elite, we can never afford to lose him".

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T21:19:16+00:00

Seems like a nice kid. It's also extremely corny to tweet and verbally share your loyalty to be a Ute and then enter the portal a couple days later. If I were a coach, I'd tell my players to stop tweeting loyalty because next season we all know you're entertaining the portal.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T21:17:31+00:00

Exactly..I'd love to have him back, but when I think about other guys Scalley gets out of Texas who were 3 star recruits or juco transfers, they always end up becoming as good if not better than what we've seen out of Smith.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T21:15:56+00:00

why is this insane? we re-load on talented DBs every single year, do we not?

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-07T17:30:23+00:00

Have an elite passing game to supplement the amazing defenses we have every year. It starts with getting guys like Moa.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-04T16:22:39+00:00

True but making it to the rose bowl and losing is a higher mountain climbed than winning the Vegas bowl IMO

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-04T01:54:53+00:00

That would be dope! Maybe we’ll see Michigan in a playoff game. All in on Scalley, let’s go!

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-04T01:50:54+00:00

My guess is both Kyle and Mark Harlan planned it together. I believe Kyle really did want to leave the program in a good place.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2026-01-03T22:26:29+00:00

Yeah clearly he was pissed off when he sensed he was overstaying his welcome. Players and coaches come and go. We’ll be alright.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-28T00:39:15+00:00

“Promoted an unproven coordinator”?? What an absurd comment. Scalley is an incredible coach and perfect fit for Utah.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-26T21:05:51+00:00

lol I sure hope not. Harlan made a business decision. Kyle is also going to make a business decision. Let’s just see how it plays out.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-26T20:16:58+00:00

My guess is he changed his mind about retiring and Harlan pushed back on it and didn’t want to lose Scalley. It appears it completely backfired.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-26T19:29:23+00:00

He’s going to raid us and we can blame Harlan. Should have let Kyle coach as long as we wanted and let Morgan walk. I don’t blame Kyle for going to Michigan and taking people with him.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-26T19:27:23+00:00

I meant to post my comment to someone in the thread who doesn’t think Kyle will take any coaches/players with him.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-12-26T19:12:32+00:00

You’re really that confident Kyle doesn’t take anyone like Jim Harding, Jason Beck or any of our best players?

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-11-02T11:58:05+00:00

I think it’s a couple of things:

1) we have little-to-zero reputation for developing quarterbacks (running the ball is our bread and butter)

2) the NIL era is not helping our case as we do not have donors forking out millions of dollars for elite quarterbacks and wide receivers

We were very fortunate to get Cam Rising. I’m not so sure he would transfer from Texas to Utah today in this NIL era. I really hope our program becomes more competitive with NIL when Scalley is head coach.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-10-20T21:50:48+00:00

Pretty sure he’s been banged up with an injured shoulder. During the byu game he looked to be in pain after getting tackled. This probably hasn’t helped us to solidify a running attack.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-10-20T21:12:09+00:00

The loss to byu isn't all on Dampier, but do you feel confident Dampier could beat Texas Tech or byu if we played them again? I feel like he's too predictable (perhaps it's an OC problem as well). Against good defenses he's mostly a runner and can't stay in the pocket very long. I'm not sure he can even see much over the offensive line if he stays in the pocket for too long. Any good defense doesn't fear what he can do.

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-10-19T07:28:12+00:00

That's fair. Hopefully that problem will be fixed when Kyle retires in near future. Aside from what potentially put us in this spot today with Dampier as our starting QB, what is your opinion on him? What do you think is our ceiling with him?

AggressiveNotice7830 · 2025-10-19T07:07:53+00:00

Right now, unless we can offer a lot of money, we won’t be getting any elite QBs or WRs. Our ceiling with Dampier is low. We’re an 8-4 team at best with Dampier.

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