USU Recruiting Updates

Gary Andersen follows up two aggravating losses with the kind of news that reminds us all why it is a great time to be an Aggie fan. Two impressive high school football recruits have verbally committed to Utah State University and Gary Andersen.
Jordan High School QB Alex Hart was offered by Coach Andersen on Monday and [...]

Deciphering the Aggie Football Team

The Utah State Aggies lost to the Nevada Wolfpack yesterday by 3 points, 35-32. 3 was also the margin of defeat in our game against NMSU last week. Herein lies the cunundrum: Nevada has a power ranking of 77 and NMSU is ranked 112th according to jhowell.net. How can we play so badly one week and so well the next? Had the [...]

Hey Aggies… It’s still Football season!

USU football has a big game this weekend against a tougher than expected Nevada team, but you’d hardly know it from the newspapers.
It’s happening again, the same thing that happens every year at this time… Aggie fans, and the media alike, skip over the end of the football season as if it were the opening act for Utah [...]

Salt Lake Tribune adds new Aggie Blog

It’s called Aggieville: USU Sports. It’s only been up and running for about a week now with short and sporadic content, but for USU fans this is good news.
For decades Aggie fans have complained about the lack of media coverage from the Salt Lake media, and probably for good reason. The Aggies have always played second [...]

Aggies Take Loss Hard

“This is the hardest loss I’ve ever had to deal with in my life,” said Coach Gary Andersen at the post game press conference. He continued, “Undisciplined football teams don’t win games. We have not been undisciplined all year long. I would say we’ve been a very disciplined football team for four games.”
Andersen isn’t the [...]

Player Spotlight: USU Punter Peter Caldwell

I mentioned briefly in my USU vs BYU review that Peter Caldwell had played a good game and that our special teams played well. I’ve had the chance to look at the stats and realized that I didn’t do him justice. Here is his stat line for the season to date:
Peter Caldwell, K USU,  Punts:23  Yards: 1025  [...]

Aggies Heading into WAC Play

With the out of conference (OOC) games out of the way, a brutal schedule that left the Aggies with an unimpressive and slightly deceiving 1-3, Utah State football coach, Gary Andersen, now faces a tough Western Athletic Conference (WAC) schedule. There have been clear indications that the WAC’s bottom teams have improved, and #5 Boise State shows that the top is still strong. Throw out Boise State and there seems to be a lot of parity in the WAC this year. The question being, where does USU fit into all of this?

The option, in or out?

According to Gary Andersen it’s in. Even after several misqueues and a turnover on Friday night. I think it is the right call. Diondre Borel needs to practice making “the pitch” that makes the option go. If he can become a master of running the option our offense will be much more dynamic. The option [...]

USU vs BYU game recaps

The common feeling I have after most of our games is one of reserved enthusiasm. Following the BYU loss my feelings were the same, except maybe a little more reserve and a little less enthusiasm.
BYU was the superior team last night, there is no disputing it. However, the Aggies did look much more competitive this [...]