We lost THREE of our starting safeties.....Gabriel, Tafuna, and
then Gooch. Ute fans were mocking us last year because they thought
our DL was going to be terrible with Tialavea out and no depth. Our
defense was hurt big time last year in key positions.
You did fine w/out BJ and Asiata. In fact, if those guys were
healthy all season, you probably would have had the same record.
You killed UCLA without BJ. BJ was more of a liablilty that and
strength last year. And Mack filled in for Asiata just fine.
If you match up each injury with BYU and Utah last year, and the
strength of the backups, there is easy proof that utah suffered
worse, but not by much at all.....very insignificant. But, I don't
expect you do think logically or ratioinally. It is just in your
minds that it was much worse.
BTW, how are your A's doing?