Utah Tech University

We incorporated a lot of schemes from – what we had done in the past.

The next week against Utah Tech, in some mop-up time, when we had some young guys going, they hit some of their big plays.

They ended up having 405 yards offense.

We won the game.

Well,

it's just – it's so interesting, too, because it still is a little bit TBD on Montana State just because we have not seen, like, the whole squad at the peak of their powers together, playing together, all at full health, basically since, what, Utah Tech? And they – you know, because the next game against Butler, it was sort of like the get everybody into the gold rush game – type of deal, right? They went on their 38-point run, but then it was just like the third string playing the whole second half.

But then everybody started getting banged up.

And so since then, you know, Cain Dollar went down in that gold rush.

Can I throw out a little? Yeah.

Right after the Veterans Day program, over at Utah Tech...

There's a Veterans Day commemoration at 1 p.m. And then at 2 p.m., many of your listeners may not know about the Miracle of Gapyong.

This was the artillery unit from here that were fought in Korea and were attacked by Chinese soldiers.

And not one man was injured or killed.

And they were directly... fired upon this will be at 2 p.m yeah at utah tech in room 121 at the college of education so i want to put out a word for that that's the artillery i believe they were the I think they were the 206th.

Okay.

And this is a miraculous story of a direct fire attack by the Chinese during Korea, and all of the men survived.

What can you do surrounding that? You're playing on the road at Kansas City in the Embank Bowl.

What can you do there? Can you beat UTSA, who's a solid team? Utah Tech, they're someone who plays a lot of bye games.

What are they going to do around there? Then you have some other challenging ones, like we already talked about Kansas, but at Colorado to end the non-conference slate.

near the holiday season.

But this year it actually is true that I do think that there is real parity in the conference.

Utah Tech's the one that could have the excuse of rolling over and dying.

Well, what'd they do last week? They went out and they beat the tour out of Cal Poly.

And Cal Poly had been a good team to that point, I guess, for the last two weeks.

You got to go roll in that game for sure.

There's no chance they lose, right? Or is there?

I'm not going to say that now because we just saw Utah Tech.

Who did they beat?

We knew it was going to be challenging going on the road.

Flag set for the first one, obviously, with the introduction of Southern Utah and Utah Tech being the first game was going to be a big sky contest.

So that was different in a good way, knowing that a little bit different than playing a non-league game, no matter who it is, first game, where that first game matters from a conference standpoint.

Played really well for for a better part of 25 minutes, to be honest with you, and played really solid the next, you know, 35 minutes, but not good enough.

you

know? But when you think about that strategy and how it's paid off, when you have a guy like Jacob Robinson leave, you have a guy like Evan Johnson that comes in, steals his shoes, and doesn't really skip a beat, right? And when you think about Matthias Leach, like he came in, you know, so you think about Utah Tech, right, how to pick.

And then he came in the Notre Dame game and only gave up, you know, 14 receiving yards.

So now if his number is called upon, he has some quality game reps where the moment isn't too big for him.

you

know? But when you think about that strategy and how it's paid off, when you have a guy like Jacob Robinson leave, you have a guy like Evan Johnson that comes in, steals his shoes, and doesn't really skip a beat, right? And when you think about Matthias Leach, like he came in, you know, so you think about Utah Tech, right, how to pick.

And then he came in the Notre Dame game and only gave up, you know, 14 receiving yards.

So now if his number is called upon, he has some quality game reps where the moment isn't too big for him.