Our MW days, our starters were good. But with this many injuries, we would have been 2-10.
Heard Curry’s injury was non-injured leg and off the field. Maybe they need a life skills/choices class (Bernard accident in scooter, NFL guy that fell down stairs, …).
Oh definitely. In the WAC/MWC days, Utah always seemed to have good running backs. But once you got past No. 3 or even No. 2, they had slow, small guys to turn to that couldn’t make the practice squad now. Injuries of this magnitude 10 years ago or more would have left Utah winless in conference play.
The team has definitely been Munsoned this year !
My earliest memories of watching Utah football take me back to 1982 (yes, I am old). The only year that I can recall the team having injuries of this magnitude was 1993. That year, no fewer than eight defensive backs in the three-deep had season-ending injuries. One of these was Sharrieff Shah. Things were so bad with injuries in the secondary that backup quarterback Harold Lusk and backup running back Keith Willams (who had been a 1,000-yard rusher) were starters at safety. Lusk ended up being pretty darn good there. Even star wide receiver Bryan Rowley (one of the best to play at Utah in 90s) spend some time in the secondary in dime packages. Another offensive player, Terence Keehan, played DB after the injuries set in (Keehan eventually moved back to offense).
As those injuries set in, Utah lost to teams like Wyoming, Idaho (yes, Idaho), and New Mexico, the latter in back-to-back home games. There wasn’t the depth in the program like there is now. Of course, to Utah’s and Coach Mac’s credit, that '93 team recovered and went 7-6, beating BYU in Provo for the first time in 32 years.