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Utah Utes football: Kicker is refining his mental toughness
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Louie has national recognition. Most kickers/punters are drafted late. That will change in the NFL as it is starting to change with H.S. - college recruiting. Use to be kickers were walk ons, scrubs, and lousy. Coaches now see kickers/punters extremely important and scholarships are offered to them. Louie...was a walk on, remember that. I have called in to local radio stations all the time and said Louie Sakoda is Utah's most valuable player. Cougar fans will see how that translates to Justin Sorensen who is a great kicker..the next 3 time MWC special teams player of the year..after Sakoda wins it again this year
I just hope he doesn't give mental tips to head-case Johnson or the rest of the schizophrenic team. I am all for another year of Coach Whit and the team giving excuse after excuse.
Whit = Crowton
BYU 13-0 (including bowl)
Utes 7-5 (12-0 if moral victories are included)
Sakoda is an awesome kicker, and will be even better this year.
Go Utes!!
This is the only thing: why is his main goal to annihilate BYU?! What a joker...seriously! Winning the conference title and going to a BCS game should be his goal.
Anyway, he is an incredible football player...
Listen, from all indications BYU will be good, Utah will be good. We should be celebrating what an exciting season this is shaping-up to be.
Good luck Coogs (until November)
Crowton had one really good year and then his teams got progressively worse. Whittingham had a decent start, and his teams have gotten progressively better.
Crowton was more disliked in Provo than Majerus was on the Hill. Whittingham is well-liked by everyone at the University of Utah.
Crowton had a revolving door strategy when it came to his QBs. Whittingham has had to adapt to injury at the most important position on the team for three years in a row and has done so very well as the Utes have won THREE consecutive bowl games under Whit.
Crowton was drawing up plays five minutes before kickoff. Whittingham has a gameplan and sticks to it, sometimes to a fault(Wyo onside kick).
No, Whit is not like Crowton.
If anything, Kyle Whittingham is going to be byU's worst nightmare in the years to come.
Utah will win this year's Holy War and will win the majority of the rivalry games against byU during Kyle's career.
We will soon find out if he has the mental toughness to go with his leg.
Crowton followed a beloved coach. Whit followed the great and magificent Urban. Rarely do coaches that follow the good coaches actually succeed.
Crowton and Whit have similar attitudes of finding excuse in mediocrity. You can blame losses on injuries, but so can Crowton throughout his short tenure. Both consistently claim, "We are a young team" and "We are learning." It gets old to hear the same rhetoric over and over.
Both lose games that the shouldn't (UNLV). Both teams are/were inconsistent.
Yes, I know it is offensive to you to compare a BYU coach to a U coach, but it is really the case. I don't think Kyle will last more than two years. Even if he puts up Ronnie Mac numbers, he wont last because of the Urban expectation. If Ronnie Mac numbers are still produced, the fans (as usual) won't be found at RES.
ya know... from Kung Fu Panda.
Careful there CougFan you may end up eating your words big time. I think your comparison is pretty poor. Look at Whittingham's bowl record. His defenses are always great. The only thing I agree with you on is it's very difficult to replace a legend. Loyalty to his O Coordinator may cost him, but Whittingham is a very good coach. I wish the Cougs had Sakoda. Are you going to see he isn't any good either?
Crowton didn't say his team was learning, he said they were getting better even though they weren't. Kyle's teams have gotten better every year.
Kyle has NEVER used injuries as an excuse. Ute fans have, but not Kyle.
Any byU fan that compares Whittingham to Crowton is just HOPING that Kyle will implode the way Gary did. You all HOPE for this because you KNOW that Kyle is an excellent coach that has had some tough luck. But that won't last. The tides will turn in Utah's favor and away from byU. BronKo has been VERY fortunate these past 2 seasons.
The Utes finished the season winning 8 of their last 9 games. If that isn't consistency, I don't know what is.
Utah has set a new season-ticket record every year despite Kyle putting up "Mac-Numbers", I think his job is safe.
I hope the D-backs are also reading books on how to guard the sideline on 4th and 18, and that they really need a defender in the North Endzone at the end of the game if the other team has the ball.
Great two articles on Utah.
Uniforms and Kicker working on his golf game.
Can we please get the hard hitting story we have been waiting for about the Utah Coaches favorite cookie recipes.
Uniforms's and Putting.
I predict the Utes will score on UMLV this year!!!
go utes???
(It really would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic).
Most kickers are asked to tryout, but a few do get drafted if the have a big leg, and if they carry a decent putter...
But, they do need to give 10% ro their caddie, and Utes really don't know much about Tithes, except that is how the BYU football program is funded.
I did not read the post, but racism has no place in sports.
Knowing there are both Ute and Cougar trolls out there, how do we know it really was a BYU fan?
Isn't the comment made at 10:23 unsubstantiated that it was a BYU fan, and calling BYU Fans racist just as bad.
For all we know, 10:23 poster might have been responding to their own "troll" post.
In Utah's last three bowl WINS their opponents have a combined record of 23-15 and Georgia Tech. was ranked #24.
In byU's last three bowl APPEARANCES, they are 2-1, their opponents have a combined record of 21-17, and none of them were ranked.
In '04 Pitt was 8-3 and ranked #19 going into the Fiesta bowl. That is a better team than ANY of byU's recent bowl opponents.
Lavell was at BYU long enough to be a legend. Lavell is BYU Football. They only name buildings at at BYU after Church Leaders (and a large doner), but LES is a huge statement.
Urban may be a legend, but his name does not invoke thoughts of the U of U, except here in Utah.
However, Luke Stahle's injury could be compared to Utah's Injury Issues. Stahle won the Doak Walker, so I would guess that the injury was a pretty major hit to the team. Same year Utah had Damien Hunter who was also a top 20 in the nation rushing, which gave Utah the advantage.
I loved Kyle as a player, and respect him as a coach. I am happy he is at Utah, and we have Bronco, but I do wish him a victory everytime he steps on the field, except against BYU.
And I hope it is close Rivalry Game every year, and that BYU wins 2/3, giving the Utes a win 1/3 just to keep the fans thinking they have a football program (UNLV hurts still).
It's funnier that way.
By capitalizing the U in byU, you are inferring that even though they have the best football, their strength is that byU is the best academic University in the state.
What is the deal in spelling Bronco BronKo?
Does the K represent K's like "K" in baseball, meaning Bronco strikes out the other team, does it represent KO, like boxing, or K like in he Kick's Butt?
And then you bash BYU and their prep opponent...
Serious, get all your Ute fans together and decide to do it on the field.
I'll use small words so you un-der-stand.
Trolls post pre-ten-ding to be fans from the other school to make the other school look stu-pid.
A Ute fan troll would make a racist remark saying he is a BYU fan, the crit-i-cize the post to make BYU look racist, when in real-i-ty, fans from neither school would post a sin-cere racist re-mark.
That is why a "Ute fan make a racial slur towards a member of his own team?"
Trolls are of the Devil.
now to the good stuff....
YEWT fans you better be ready cause i cant wait till you underestimate our new secondary/defense...like last years... all i hear is how our secondary cant stop anybody... well news flash WE DID STOP YOU....and our secondary then was built with a bunch of walk ons... here is a scary thought this new secondary is more athletic and faster then any other secondary that bronco has had yet!
Finally,
for the last time....
mack is no HARVEY UNGA! so dont even try putting the 2 in the same sentence!
see you on NOV. 22 at 4pm...at around 4:01 BYU will already be up 7-0...cause collie will already return a kickoff...and we will show you yewts how good your "special" teams really is.
GO COUGARS! anyone wanna get me some salsa...i feel a FIESTA COMING ON!
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