Utes exposed in ugly, lopsided home loss

It is not as good as advertised. Young defense was exploited by a better team.

Did you see how wide ass open their receviers were all day?

We got manhandled, beaten, pushed around, and kicked—at home.

Write this one off fellers, nothing to talk about, just get on to the next game.

So hopefully we don’t get punted down to division IIA for this!

Heh, come one guys it’s just a game, we’ll win—and lose more—before we pass on.

Thanks for the comments and fun fellers, Cya next week!

Dropped passes, BAD tackling, and Dalton didn’t get pressured all game.

One of the worst games I’ve been to. So much excitement surrounding the game and it was a let-down.

The season is not over. The best thing Utah can do is finish strong and make a strong effort in the bowl game. Sure, it will probably be the Las Vegas bowl, but what can you do?

TCU is legit, no doubt about it. They are really, really good.

We were heading down 13th East to GameDay early this morning and a damn black cat bolted out in front of me.

BAD LUCK!

…so who knows what to make of this game…

The secondary looked the same as last week though. Beat over the top on multiple occasions. Missed tackles drove me crazy. Other than that, I didn’t feel like the D looked totally awful (that’s my attempt at a silver lining).

So many dropped passes were momentum killers…and the fumbles. Ugh…

We might have been better served grinding it out. That was my initial thought when analyzing this matchup. Force them to commit to the run and wear out the D. Who knows though…

We aren’t this bad, but perhaps TCU is just this good. National Champion good.

Still proud of our Utes… they just weren’t in the same caliber as TCU.

I think TCU could take Oregon.. I hope they get the BCS MNCG

I’m so damn disappointed right now.

TCU Beat us, We Beat ourselves, and the fans beat us. The MUSS got silent after the first touchdown, and then started booing our team and heckling Wynn with a “We want Cain” chant. What does it do to the player’s moral when the stadium goes from insane to silent after just one touchdown? It is heartbraking to watch your team play without any, and even worse to be the only one in a 30ft radius cheering on your team till the end.

I hate to throw the boys under the bus, but the dropped passes and misses tackles absolutely destroyed all hope of gaining any momentum.

Or we’re going 0-3 to close out the season.

  The one constant thing about this ute team this whole year has been the running game. You have two studs in the backfeild and a pretty damn good o-line. I don’t recall us running the ball on first down AT ALL in the first half!!! The key is to set up 3rd and short and NOT have to make wynn throw for a ten yard gain on third down every drive. TCU’s defense is too good to have to throw for 10-15 yards in a predictable passing situation. We didn’t have them guessing at all, there was no tempo set, schramm didn’t even give asiata/wide a chance!!

Dave schramm I am SOOO fucking pissed and dissapointed in the game plan/play calling you should be ashamed. PATHETIC.

Anyhow, sorry for the rant i’m just so fired up…more games to be won this year and looking forward to it! GO UTES!!!

Don’t forget that Aaron Roderick is also very involved with the offensive play calling, but I agree that they didn’t run much (if at all) on first down. I have a feeling it might not have made much difference since TCU is the #1 run defense in the nation too. They should’ve tried though.

I was totally disgusted about this game. I saw at least 3 pass interference calls where the refs just pushed the penalty flags deeper into their pants. I don’t know if that would’ve made a difference, but maybe our receivers would’ve been more open. There was just too much inconsistency all over the place.

All the turnovers the Utes have had this season you just had to know it would eventually come back to bite them in the @$$.

It sucks to lose like that and have our big dreams disappear in the span of a couple hours, but there’s nothing else to do but to learn and move on.

The Utes need to crush everyone else remaining on the schedule, and then kick the crap out of whatever PAC-10 team we draw in the Vegas bowl.

Whittingham said he would open up the playbook for the offense today. Did he show it to Gary Patterson as well?

I’m being sarcastic of course, but it sure looked like it at times.

Shouldn’t kick women out for taking their tops off at the game.

Or has that joke been used already today?

I’m really disappointed the series between our universities is ending on a game like this, because it’s always been a tooth-and-nail, throw your guts up at the end series, and there’s no MWC game I’m ever more nervous about than when it’s Ute time. I can only imagine that you’ll pay back our poor basketball team in spades for today.

Best of luck in the Pac-12, Utes. I’ll be rooting for you every game from next year on.

In our season’s punch bowl.

Utah was just OUTPLAYED, period! TCU has a fast swarming defense, Utah has slow receivers and two slow backs. It is the truth…why I say? Did you pay attention to Jeremy Kerley and Ed Wesley…those dudes are athletically speedy! 5’8" or 5’9" and speedy! Same with the receivers, they are speedy fast! Wide and Asiata are not speedy fast, they are slow fast. There is a difference, how you say? When they ran the ball, would pick up 1 or 2 yards tops. When Kerley and Ed Wesley ran, it was 8 yards plus. With Dalton’s gun of an arm and TCU’s big speedy receivers, our secondary got burned. I’ve never seen our safeties run so much in a game. Kyle’s #1 goal at the end of the season, forget Utah and California, take all the coaches and jump on a plane and fly to Texas and recruit heavy in TEXAS!

And this is stretching, because it is tough to find anything positive about the game… at least we don’t think we are the shiz anymore. Utah will hopefully go into their next 3 games with a critical outlook of their own skill. They maybe thought, before TCU, that they were a top 5 team.

TCU was good. I think if anyone can beat Oregon, it is them.

but I’d still put you up there with Boise. They play creampuffs, you play creampuffs. At least you’re joining a reputable conference next year, and have a shot at bettering yourselves through challenge and competition. Boise’s gonna be stuck right where they are, forever, because no conference wants to be associated with them and their freakish smurf turf.

On that note, welcome to the Pac-12! Pity about TCU, but, hell, they’re #3.

Now I know how New Mexico feels every week!!!!

Given how the Frogs played, we probably would have lost in any case. But the fact that we did everything possible to help them along, and showed no guts angers me. From dropped passed, poor tackling, the fact that they quite out there, Jordan Wynn regressing, I could go on but I won’t.

I tried not to drink the cool aid all year knowing that this was supposed to be a building year with hopefully a strong team next year. But I got caught up. It’s the crashing down that’s painful. At the beginning of the year, most of us would have probably thought that an 11-2 season would be a success. Now we need to get over our disappointment and realize that this can still be a good season. True, our chances at something great were dashed. That’s life, pick yourself up and keep going. I just hope that the team doesn’t quite on the season like they quite on the game in the 3rd quarter.

As for the booing of Wynn and walking out early, I can’t really blame the fans. That was a painful game to watch. Wynn was playing terribly, it was obvious by early in the second quarter that he was not going to recover. IMO you can’t give up a game like this to save a lower classmans confidence. When it’s all on the line you have to go for the W no matter what. Cain gave us the better chance to win the 2nd half if for no other reason than Wynn’s confidence was shattered. Whittingham should have pulled him to SAVE his confidence.

With all this going on, you can’t blame the fans for getting down. Not all fans are created equally and that’s as true in SEC/ACC country as it is in Utah. I’m glad we don’t have to play TCU again, as much as I want to repay them for this attrocity (on our part not on theirs) I think they are in Wynn’s head from last year and this year made it worse. I really wonder if he could beat a highschool team if they wore TCU jerseys at this point. I hope he continues to mature and turns into the quarterback that he has the potential to be. The way that Andy Dalton did after the 2008 loss to Utah.

As I look to the future I am now very nervous about next year. A 7-5 season is very possible in the tougher Pac and I have serious questions about our ability to contend for a conference title. I also think that our window of opportunity for a National Championship was just slammed in our faces for the forseable future. It could be years or decades before we are in as good a position to contend for one as we were this year. x/ But even if we go 3-10, I’ll still be watching and cheering for the Utes and hoping they get better. That’s what fans do.

O and D line play—that’s where we excelled recently, that’s where we got shoved all over the field.

I have ot think we were somehow simply unprepared because bergstrom, one of our finest players, was manhandled yesterday. Either they are all on steroids or something is up.

Not much else to add that hasn’t been said above, but as disappointed as I am with the Utes, I am just as impressed with the way TCU plays. Haven’t had a chance to see them play this year and damn, they are the real thing. We weren’t.

Still a lot of football to play, folks. Seems like some Utes fans have become spoiled with the undefeated seasons in the past, but finishing the year with one loss is still a huge success (as all of us here clearly realize), and within reach.

Last word: flush the toilet and move on. Looking forward to watching the Utes go to South Bend next week.

I’m not saying we didn’t get smacked up one side and down the other. We got thoroughly whipped. Let’s not say Utah football is a sham, that they’re poseurs, or anything like that. It takes away from TCU’s win. TCU is a very good team and they did just about everything right on Saturday.

All teams have bad days and bad games. Great teams still find ways to win when having a bad game, kind of like how Utah pulled out the win against Pitt despite multiple turnovers and a few blown plays. However, great teams DON’T get pummeled. So I think Utah still is a good team, though not a great one this year.

Wynn had one of his worst day ever. His passing accuracy was horrible, with many being too high or too low. He still had a few that were right on target, only to be dropped by the receivers. The O-line was only adequate on pass defense and they didn’t seem to do much on rush blocking and the running game never went anywhere. The three PI no-calls may have resulted in a few scores, but I don’t think it would have been enough to swing the game.

Our D-line didn’t get anywhere close to Dalton, despite the altitude and rotating fresh legs. Our secondary has been a little suspect all season and it was extremely exploited on Saturday. Our CBs and safeties have always been good hitters, but wrapping and tackling is not one of their strengths.

I think anyone who has watched the Utes play all season will agree that Saturday was NOT typical of how they have played this season. It seemed like everything was out of sync, with the exception of special teams. TCU is the better team this year, but I don’t think thy’re 40 points better. If this game is played again with Utah playing the way they did against CSU or ISU, I say that’s enough for a four TD swing. It wouldn’t be enough to win, but losing 33 – 21 is a whole lot better. I don’t say this as an excuse, because Utah got completely thrashed. But Utah didn’t get “unmasked,” they just got soundly beat while having a bad game.