Utah Utes mailbag: “What’s your prediction on who will lead the team in sacks? Do the Utes have an elite pass rusher?”
Utah head coach Craig Smith, cheers on his team, in the Utes 96-62 win over the Manhattan Jaspers at the Jon M.Huntsman Center, on Saturday, December 11, 2021.The University of Utah basketball team is back on campus and has begun summer workouts ahead of Craig Smith’s second season at the helm.
First, let’s clarify exactly what we’re talking about. When our anonymous friend here references public offers, no scholarship offer is made publicly by a coaching staff. What happens is, a scholarship offer is extended, and the recruit then chooses to announce it on social media, or feed it to his/her preferred media/recruiting outlet, who then makes it public.
Smith’s second roster, which includes a bunch of NCAA Transfer Portal turnover, both coming and going, appears set to be the same. Utah is at 12 scholarships, and at this point, unless Smith unearths a late JuCo qualifier or is waiting on an international kid to make a decision, the roster is set. But here’s one thing on my mind pertaining to this topic: Smith earlier this spring spoke about the ability or the need to still build a program, not just a team, which is what the portal has turned college basketball into.
Van Fillinger, a key recruit of the 2020 COVID freshman class, stepped forward last fall and had a productive season, finishing with 5.5 sacks, good for third on the team, while starting 13 games and playing in all 14. Fillinger has the most experience among defensive ends, he’s a proven commodity, and he projects to start at one defensive end spot, so he’s the pick here.
Off the top of my head, there was a blocked punt returned for a touchdown at Oregon State, another blocked in Corvallis waved off due to a penalty, a blocked punt at Arizona, and a bobbled long snap in the third quarter of the Rose Bowl, which set up Ohio State up at the 11-yard line and led to a touchdown. Additionally, place-kicking duties changed hands a couple of times during the season with Jadon Redding and Jordan Noyes dealing with respective struggles.
A trip to BYU will have some juice, and the draw for Fort Myers Tip-Off will produce two games among a group of Marquette, Mississippi State, and Georgia Tech. Those MTE game options are not a bunch of world-beaters, but it’s better than what Utah had last year against Rhode Island, Boston College and Tulsa at the Sunshine Slam.
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