Dan Mullen, Andy Ludwig and Norm Chow each looked brilliant, upon exiting the Utah football program. Troy Taylor can only hope his farewell is as memorable as those of other Ute play-callers who knew they were headed to different schools.
Taylor chose to complete his two-year Utah tenure in Monday’s Holiday Bowl vs. Northwestern, two weeks after being named Sacramento State’s head coach. He’s departing after having improved Utah’s offense enough to help win the school’s first Pac-12 South championship, but with the lasting impression — until next week, anyway — being an 188-yard production in a 10-3 loss to Washington in the conference title game at Santa Clara, Calif.