Now Hiring?

As an avid University of Utah football fan, I have just a few items of business this week after last weekend's game against Wyoming. First off, don't let the score fool you. Wyoming won that game, sort of. Sure on paper it looks nice and at the end of the season, a "W" is a "W" right? Well, if Utah keeps playing the way they did on Saturday, there will not be too many more "W's" the rest of the season! Simply put, Utah's offense stunk. If it were not for Aiona Key's blocked punt which resulted in a touchdown, R. J. Rices' fumble recovery in the end zone for a touchdown, Sean Smith's pick six and Louie Sakoda's two field goals, the score to the game would have been 13-7. That is right, out of the 40 points shown on the board, Utah's "powerful" offense was responsible for 13 of them!! That doesn't sound like a team who went out there expecting to win by that much rather a team that got lucky and scored on behalf of the other team's mistakes. Granted, our defense and special teams played a heck of a game, but come on, 13 points?

There are two things that really bother me about this. Number one, the press is giving the whole thing a free pass. No one else seemed to notice that Wyoming out gained Utah in total yards. No one else seemed to notice that the offense only scored 13 points. No one else seems to notice or mention that if our offense doesn't figure it out, New Mexico, TCU and BYU all have the talent to beat us if we can't produce numbers on offense! How does this happen? How is everyone fooled by that? I know the wind was howling in Laramie last weekend and took away some of the passing, but still. Let me run this one past you. The following is a list of the total receiving yards for the Ute players:

F Brown	4	for 57 yards
J Brooks	3	for 22 yards
B Godfrey	2	for 19 yards
M Asiata	1	for 13 yards
D Mack	1	for 8 yards

After looking at this list, what do you notice? If its that Asiata and Mack combined for 21 total receiving yards look closer. Where in the world is Brent Casteel's name? The guy who lead the Utes in receiving against Oregon St. and was the hero for catching two HUGE balls thrown his way in the last 2 minutes of that game is not even on the list!!! It is not that he just didn't catch any balls either. It was almost like they didn't want to throw to him. Brenst Casteel is one of the best, most athletic skilled positioned players on the team! What? How? I don't get it. How do the Utes not get him the ball? You don't have to get a 50 yard pass to him for it to be worth their while. The guy is a play maker and anyone knows you get the ball into the hands of your play makers. Now the Utes have talent, no question. And not that those guys on the list don't deserve the numbers they got, but it is not acceptable for Casteel's name to appear to this list which brings me to my second point. Andy Ludwig is HORRIBLE. With Halloween just around the corner the thing that frightens me the most is knowing that Andy Ludwig will be calling the plays on offense the rest of the season! I have so many things I want to say here, I don't know what to say. Ludwig's play calling and game planning is horrific, lets start there. With so many options and talent on the Ute's team, how is our offense not rolling over opponents like they did in 2004. This year was supposed to be 2004 all over again, but we are squeaking by with just enough to win rather than proving we deserve national attention and a shot at a BCS bowl. It is like that is how Ludwig plays his game, just enough and hope we don't get screwed. Well, luckily Michigan started making its run a little too late, Oregon St. just flat out blew it, Wyoming is terrible and the rest of our team saved our you know whats, and the clock ran out for Air Force. Why can't we come out after an OK start against Michigan and just put it away, score 20 more points in the second half? Instead it was a game of clock management and focusing on defense. YOU ARE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION IN THE BIG HOUSE, LUDWIG!!!! SEND A MESSAGE AND BEAT MICHIGAN 47-10 INSTEAD OF 25-23 WITH TIME RUNNING OUT IN YOUR FAVOR!! Maybe I should have sent that all big and stuff to Ludwig before the game I don't know. None the less, Ludwig better start calling plays and managing games much differently that he has because if he doesn't, New Mexico, TCU and BYU are all potential losses and IF, that is a big IF right now, we luck out and make it to a BCS game, we will be absolutely destroyed! At that point Andy Ludwig will surely need to get the boot. But as I see it the U is now hiring. Any and all people who can brush their teeth in the morning are already more qualified to call the plays than Ludwig is so please, fill out an application. The leading rusher for the Utes yesterday was Corbin Louks, our back up running QB. Give me a break, what kind of strategy is that? What happened to our powerful one two punch of Asiata and Mack? And, I don't care how bad your O-Line stinks (which Utah's is not so good) or your QB stinks, you get the ball to Casteel and see what the guy can do. Unbelievable!