Cam Rising has only thrown for 300+ yards 3 times, but has thrown under 200 yards 10 times. He is also 3-7 vs bowl eligible teams on the road, but is 6-0 at home.
This needs to be put into perspective 1) Utah isn’t a pass-first team. This has never been Utah’s identity. 2) losses aren’t on just QB’s, they are on the team. 3) A lot of those losses are to good teams. 2021 San Diego state was a very good team, and Cam Rising only came into the 4th quarter that game and had to lead a crazy comeback. 2021 Oregon state was an inexcusable loss, but it had nothing to do with Cam Rising performing poorly. That loss was mainly on the defense and special teams. 2021 Ohio State in the rose bowl. Ohio state is consistently one of the 3-4 most talented teams in the country, Utah’s secondary was highly injured that game, and Rising left the game due to injury. Yet we still only lost a close game and Rising played amazing. 2022 Florida was an unfortunate loss, but the swamp is one of the top 10, if not top 5, most difficult road environments in all of CFB, especially in early September. It’s also incredibly difficult for teams to travel multiple time zones and win. I remember seeing a stat that teams in CFB (or maybe it was the NFL), that travel two or more time zones, lose like 75% of the time. 2022 UCLA was probably their best team in the last 10 years, and they started off very strong. They beat Utah who was the conference champ, and they also beat UW who ended up 11-2 and beat a talented Texas team. 2022 Oregon was also a very good team and of course, Autzen stadium is a tough environment. Game was very close, but we just lost. 2022 Penn State in the rose bowl. Rising got injured again and we couldn’t do anything. They were also a very good and talented team. None of the above has any relevance to 2024. Cam Rising looked great in the spring game and Utah brought in good talent at WR to open it up. None of the environments in the big 12 are as hostile as the swamp or even Autzen. In fact, Utah has the most hostile home field advantage in the big 12. Nobody in the big 12 is as talented as Ohio state, Penn State, Florida, or Oregon.
Can't convince me Garrett Greene isn't the best Big 12 QB. Missed two games and still had 3187 total offensive yards, 29 TDs, only threw 4 picks, and only sacked 5 times. Tied ranked #6 by PFF for returning QBs in all FBS with a 91.0 rating. He was also ranked 64 out of 64 for P5 QBs last year. He was ranked dead last. #HailWV
Behren Morton is a better quarterback than Dequan Finn and Donovan Smith at the very least. He literally beat Donovan Smith out for the job at Texas Tech. His problem isn't talent, it's health. But even hurt last year he was better than those guys.
Also a Tech fan, and would tend to agree but Morton is being ranked low on every list simply bc he isn’t a proven commodity yet. No fault of his own given his shoulder sprain and coming in as QB 2, but 15TD to 8 INT on the year ain’t it.
Cam Rising has only thrown for 300+ yards 3 times, but has thrown under 200 yards 10 times. He is also 3-7 vs bowl eligible teams on the road, but is 6-0 at home.
This needs to be put into perspective
1) Utah isn’t a pass-first team. This has never been Utah’s identity.
2) losses aren’t on just QB’s, they are on the team.
3) A lot of those losses are to good teams. 2021 San Diego state was a very good team, and Cam Rising only came into the 4th quarter that game and had to lead a crazy comeback. 2021 Oregon state was an inexcusable loss, but it had nothing to do with Cam Rising performing poorly. That loss was mainly on the defense and special teams. 2021 Ohio State in the rose bowl. Ohio state is consistently one of the 3-4 most talented teams in the country, Utah’s secondary was highly injured that game, and Rising left the game due to injury. Yet we still only lost a close game and Rising played amazing. 2022 Florida was an unfortunate loss, but the swamp is one of the top 10, if not top 5, most difficult road environments in all of CFB, especially in early September. It’s also incredibly difficult for teams to travel multiple time zones and win. I remember seeing a stat that teams in CFB (or maybe it was the NFL), that travel two or more time zones, lose like 75% of the time. 2022 UCLA was probably their best team in the last 10 years, and they started off very strong. They beat Utah who was the conference champ, and they also beat UW who ended up 11-2 and beat a talented Texas team. 2022 Oregon was also a very good team and of course, Autzen stadium is a tough environment. Game was very close, but we just lost. 2022 Penn State in the rose bowl. Rising got injured again and we couldn’t do anything. They were also a very good and talented team.
None of the above has any relevance to 2024. Cam Rising looked great in the spring game and Utah brought in good talent at WR to open it up. None of the environments in the big 12 are as hostile as the swamp or even Autzen. In fact, Utah has the most hostile home field advantage in the big 12. Nobody in the big 12 is as talented as Ohio state, Penn State, Florida, or Oregon.
Can't convince me Garrett Greene isn't the best Big 12 QB. Missed two games and still had 3187 total offensive yards, 29 TDs, only threw 4 picks, and only sacked 5 times. Tied ranked #6 by PFF for returning QBs in all FBS with a 91.0 rating. He was also ranked 64 out of 64 for P5 QBs last year. He was ranked dead last. #HailWV
Noah Fifita is crazy good. Looking forward to seeing how Arizona plays this year.
Read Fornelli's article on Fifita. Crazy efficiency
I would have to put Ronnie Lott #1
Behren Morton is a better quarterback than Dequan Finn and Donovan Smith at the very least. He literally beat Donovan Smith out for the job at Texas Tech. His problem isn't talent, it's health. But even hurt last year he was better than those guys.
Also a Tech fan, and would tend to agree but Morton is being ranked low on every list simply bc he isn’t a proven commodity yet. No fault of his own given his shoulder sprain and coming in as QB 2, but 15TD to 8 INT on the year ain’t it.
Notice top 3 played in the Pac which does not play defense.
Donovan smith, Dequan Finn over Josh Hoover?
This dude haven’t watched enough Deion 🤦🏽♂️ unsubscribe