Category: Football

My pal Shane flies small planes from SLC to Price and Moab every day. He flew me over Arches National Park this summer. That was amazing.

He shot a pic of RES from above and I had to share it:

In my not so unbiased opinion UTAH WAS THE BEST & #1 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY LAST YEAR. This year however, that is not the case. Utah lost a ton of great players and coaches. We’re 7-1 right now, only loss by 7 to Oregon on their home field. Oregon has turned out to be pretty good.

But having watched every Ute home game from the 25th row, and all the road games, I think TCU has the potential to slaughter the Utes this time around. Our coach is a defensive guy, so we may be able to hold TCU’s offense down a bit. But offensively we’re not close to where we need to be and we’ll be starting a FRESHMAN QB for his first college road game of his career. The Utes have also been plagued with fumbles this season. At one point vs Air Force, we had more fumbles than 1st downs. If we do that against TCU we won’t win like we did vs some lesser teams. Not by a long shot.

It all points to TCU in my eyes even though I’m as big a Ute fan as there can be. But that’s why they play the games. You never know until it is over.

And I also must say how thrilled I was that TCU crushed my ever hated byu. I really like TCU and root for them any game except when they play my Utes.

I was pissed off last night when I tried to turn the game on and found that it was on “ESPNU,” a channel which isn’t in my subscription. I attempted to call comcast and after waiting for 15 minutes I finally bailed.

I found the game online and watched a jerky, grainy stream with horrible audio. I even moved my couch from my living room to my office so my lady and two kids could watch too.

Last night’s game was not pretty. We had yet another 4th and goal from the 1 yard line and couldn’t punch it in, just like the Utah State game. It isn’t a good sign if you can’t punch it in from the 1 against Utah State and San Jose State… I’m just sayin’….

The game was at 7-7 forever and finally we made two TD’s and one field goal in the 4th to pull away 24-14.

Vroeman was horrible, missing 3 field goal attempts. He ended up getting benched and the backup kicker made an easy field goal late in the game.

I figured out first road game would be a bit shaky and I’m glad we won. The nation’s longest winning streak continues.

I had a great time at the 1st game of the 2009 Utah Football season vs Utah State. The new QB #7 (can’t remember his name) looks GREAT.

We have some work to do defensively though. Some big holes opened up.

All in all, I’m excited about the coming Utah Utes football season.

2009 SCHEDULE

Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result
09/03/09 vs. Utah State TV Salt Lake City 7:00 p.m. MT
09/12/09 at San Jose State TV San Jose, Calif. 7:30 p.m. PT
09/19/09 at Oregon TV Eugene, Ore. 12:30 p.m. PT
09/26/09 vs. Louisville TV Salt Lake City 5:30 p.m. MT
10/10/09 at Colorado State TV Fort Collins, Colo. 4:00 p.m. MT
10/17/09 at UNLV TV Las Vegas, Nev. 7:00 p.m. PT
10/24/09 vs. Air Force TV Salt Lake City 2:00 p.m. MT
10/31/09 vs. Wyoming TV Salt Lake City 6:00 p.m. MT
11/07/09 vs. New Mexico TV Salt Lake City 4:00 p.m. MT
11/14/09 at TCU TV Fort Worth, Texas 6:30 p.m. CT
11/21/09 vs. San Diego State TV Salt Lake City 2:00 p.m. MT
11/28/09 at BYU TV Provo, Utah 3:00 p.m. MT