Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: NFL Roundtable: Which Draft Pick Is Most Likely To Bust?

10. Utah: Remember Ron McBride? No, you don't. He was Utah's coach at the beginning of the decade. McBride was a solid, not great, coach. His name will go down in history as an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Urban Meyer (who has two teams in this top 10) arrived in 2003 and changed the landscape. His quarterback, Alex Smith, became a No. 1 draft pick. His team became the first non-BCS program to break through in the restrictive system.

Changed the landscape? Notre Dame dallied just a bit in pursuing its former receivers coach and lost Meyer to Florida. Defensive coordinator Kyle Whittingham has kept things chugging with an undefeated season in ’08.

This is meant in the nicest possible way: Utah is the No. 2 football factory west of the Rockies.

almost 3 years ago Resized_tiny JazzyUte 1 comment 0 recs  | 

Story-email Email Printer Print

More from Block U

Utes potential top-25 in 2012

Jan 2012 by JazzyUte - 87 comments

Week six BlogPoll ballot

Oct 2011 by JazzyUte - 3 comments

BlogPoll: Bye-bye Utah

Oct 2011 by JazzyUte - 1 comment

Week five BlogPoll ballot

Oct 2011 by JazzyUte - 13 comments

Around SB Nation

Doug Gottlieb the Magnificent

Jan 2009 from Cardiac Hill - 0 comments

It's Official

Jan 2009 from Cardiac Hill - 0 comments

Pitt to be No. 1

Jan 2009 from Cardiac Hill - 0 comments

Comments

Display:

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

"I can't think of many schools that are better than Utah."
- Urban Meyer


"Wow. Wow. Wow."
- Daryl Johnston after Utah took a 21-0 lead on Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl