Utes ready for fall camp to start

Sophomore slumps are common and Wynn had himself one, riddled by injury. Doesn’t mean he can’t come back and be the QB the coaches believe he can be this year.

I haven’t been sold on Wynn just yet, but this helps me be a bit optimistic.

I am not giving up on him, but one thing left out of the analysis is that Wynn has had a helluva lot more talent around him than Johnsosn did. Saddling Johnson with the OSU loss, he played about 5 minutes, tops, is also not really sporting. Skews the data you know.

but here is the link to the 2010 roster, with po’u on it.

http://utahutes.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/2010-11-roster.html

Because his offenses, at least during his early days at Utah, were not conservative and certainly not exclusive to the ground.

They were more what you’d expect from a pro-style team: a lot of plays through the air, but the running game still plays an active role.

I was re-watching the ‘93 BYU game and was just in awe at what our offense did back then. You’ll remember Utah won that game 34-31, in regulation, on a last-minute field goal. It was certainly a high-scoring affair.

Fun fact: Mike McCoy threw for 462 yards that day.

So, yeah, there was definitely something different in the early days of McBride’s era than what we later came to expect after ‘94. I don’t know if he was changed by the ‘94 season, the fact they came so close to perfection and blew it in two games, but after that, Utah’s offense became less an offensive threat and more built around the defense.

Case in point, look at PPG Utah averaged under McBride by year:

1992: 26.7 – 30th in the country
1993: 30.5 – 25th in the country
1994: 35.5 – 7th in the country
1995: 26.9 – 41st in the country
1996: 26.1 – 52nd in the country
1997: 23.0 – 65th in the country
1998: 30.8 – 30th in the country
1999: 31.7 – 21st in the country
2000: 21.3 – 85th in the country
2001: 27.4 – 52nd in the country
2002: 22.6 – 89th in the country

Outside a short window between ‘98 and ’99, Utah’s offense was pretty crappy from 1995-2002. Like I said, it goes back to that ’94 season. Maybe it was the lack of real good quarterbacks like McCoy or McBride becoming increasingly cautious (remember how superstitious he was in those final years?) – whatever the reason, the offense looked good in his first few seasons and crashed and burned toward the end.

I’m not concerned that will happen with Chow. He’s not the type of OC to run, run, pass, punt like McBride’s OC’s became at the end of his stay here (like, as I’m sure you all remember, Tommy Lee).

besides Gordon Monson is Jan. I don’t know what Jan’s problem is, but he will never say anything positive about Utah. And he CONSTANTLY brings up pac-12 celebrations and tries to make fun of the Ute fan base. With Gunther, he gives an honest take about BYU, while still being a Ute homer. Jan just gives the negatives about Utah. No reaching across the aisle or anything. Jan grew up a Utes fan and I don’t know if he’s just bitter because Utah didn’t want him or what, but he sure is full of sour grapes.