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I ran into three Pitt fans this morning at the grocery store, welcomed them to SLC, thanks for making the trip out, enjoy your time here, you know, all of that classless stuff we do.
They noted the # of Utes flags on cars, Utes shirts in the store worn by beautiful women, their surprise at finding beer in the store, and couldn't believe how large the mountains are. This is their roadie this year because of what their other friends said about Utes in Tempe '05.They asked what I knew about Pitt.
#15, new QB, Qwizz-like RB, led the NCAA in sacks last year, hate West Virginia & Penn St. Home of Mike Ditka, Pop Warner, Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino, and the 3rd best 'stache of all time.
One of them said "no wonder BYU just ran away from you guys. You've really hit the big time. This whole place FEELS like a top 10 program."
Thanks Utefans.net for teaching me half of that over the last few weeks. Now get loud Utah and cheers to another great season! GO UTES!
UTEFANS.COM is now in our possession and transferred to the hosting company used by RealCove (Rocker's company), who will be managing the major site upgrade I've been promising.
The importance of securing utefans.com is so that nobody else can set up a Utes fan site on that domain and wreck havoc on me and this website. It's ours, baby. jhill will be proud.
This was the first step. The price came down to $500 so we pounced on it. Today it was announced that the transfer is complete, and Rocker verified that it's accessible through his system.
We estimate the site upgrade will cost a total of $2500 (including purchasing utefans.com). Not to mention the jack I've been dropping on equipment to bring the U Fan Cast podcasts and Fan Fest videos your way. [Open message for image]
First down stuff is taken care of by the First Down guy in W15, we have the 3rd down jump, and there is already plenty of furor around the 4th down, I'd like to corner the market for the 2nd down, and from henceforth be known as the Second Downer.
I'll be the guy on the west side of the stadium leading the blue hairs in grumblings, depending on whether we are on offense or defense, like:
"Looks like McBride is back"
"Their offense/defense is running all over us"
"Urban Meyer would have had a first down there"
"Bring back the Utah pass"
"Wynn/our defense doesn't look like they know what they are doing out there"
"They are marching up the field"
"We can't move the ball"
I will have cue cards that I'll hold up after any play that results in a second down, and I'd appreciate if you'd reiterate what they say on them to your unfortunate neighbor.
If for some reason I don't hold up a card, feel free to ad lib as you see fit, based on this basic structure, or turn your attention to the children around you who 'keep going in and out instead of paying attention to the game.'
Offense: Looks like we have a threat at WR in DeVonte Christopher. 8-155-1 is a standout game, and his 61-yard TD should have been the icing on the cake. I'll get to that later.
Defense: Yeah, Brian Blechen had the INT, but Junior Tui'one was a beast early and led a stop unit that totally put the shackles on Dion Lewis (25-75-1), plus he added one of Utah's two sacks. They can both share it.
Special teams: LOL. Are you kidding me?
Quick thoughts: We've got great physical talent, but we can be really dumb at times. Yeah, Wynn's making only his sixth start, but Brett Favre thought Wynn's INT at the end of the first half was bad. You're up 7, you get the ball to start the second half and you're at home. That play was defended too tightly to do anything risky. Throw the ball 20 rows deep into the NEZ and kick the FG.
Kyle's gotta spend more time with special teams, or he needs to find a better special teams coach. I'm tired of having kicks blocked and punts muffed in our openers. Even Sellwood, who kicked very well last year, yacked all over himself when we really needed a great punt out of him. Better STs tonight and we win by 3 TDs. Minimum.
I love our defense, but up 11 with 7 minutes left, how about playing a safety back? Hell, why not two? At that point in the game, you have to know Pitt is going to test us with the deep ball.
For every bitch I have about tonight -- two things remain constant: We have incredible physical talent, and we were playing the No. 15 team in the country. Our offense is designed to execute well in space, and I thought we moved the ball well, especially in the red zone (save for the Favre INT). We probably could've stood to run a little more, but our run-pass ratio wasn't that out of whack.
Our LBs were good, but our front four were unblockable. Blechen the true frosh ain't Weddle the true frosh, but he's definitely a keeper. Burton really helped his NFL stock by defending Baldwin like he did (minus the long TD pass -- hey, $#!+ happens). I'm concerned about Lamar Chapman -- real rough night for him. Cullen was good, given the assignment (save for the PF that put our last drive in regulation into the $#!+ter). My big concern on offense is finding a third WR.
All in all, a good win. And outside of our game at Iowa State, I don't see any of our next six opponents staying within two TDs of us. Clean things up, fatten up on patsies and win big in the style points category. Really no reason not to be riding a head of steam and being 7-0 going to AFA.
Scaddy's has now been around just over a year and much of our success is thanks to you! Our first big advertising push was with Utefans.net and we want to start our 20% discount for UFNers again this season.
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We have been excited with our growth and we have had some great times with Utefans, including some fun watch parties last year. We'd like to do that again this season too.
Thanks for your support and here is to a GREAT season!
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