Ute Nation
Founders
Sports Advisors
September 11, 2026
University of Utah football has become one of the top programs in the country, and we've gotten there through hard work, grit, and determination.
When new leadership took the helm of the Football Program, we knew we wanted to do whatever we could to help them have success.
After discussions with the coaches at the University of Utah, we realized that in an NIL world there were projects that needed funds that are more directly tied to the Utah traditions of teamwork, perseverance, and doing more with less.
Our current focus is to fundraise for these three projects.
$1,000,000
Players meet their opponents visually on a TV wall.
A film room you walk into rather than sit in front of. Opponent tendencies, formations and personnel rendered at full scale, so a player sees the look the way he will see it on Saturday instead of on a laptop. Preparation is the cheapest yard a team can buy.
$1,000,000
Our boys will use the latest weight technology to get stronger.
Velocity-based training, force-plate testing and the load-monitoring hardware that turns strength work into measured work. The gap between a good program and a great one is no longer effort. It is data, and the equipment that produces it.
$250,000
Quarterbacks, defensive backs and others play to the imagination of reality.
In-helmet audio and immersive rehearsal for the positions that live or die on recognition. A quarterback can take a hundred mental reps against a look he will only see twice a season, without a single live snap and without a single extra hit.
Three projects, $2,250,000 in full.
We came up with the idea of creating a new fan platform that could help fund some of these projects without big donations. We wanted to enhance the Utah fan experience by creating an updated discussion forum, exclusive content, fan experiences, and more.
To kickstart this endeavor we are doing a round of fundraising with a goal of raising $50,000 in the next 30 days. After that time we will be able to fund these projects, and many others, through the platform.
We welcome donations of any size to get this project going.
The first 30 days
$50,000
the goal, by October 11, 2026
$0
raised so far
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Before you give
The 501(c)(3) application for Kalia Development Group, the organization receiving these gifts, is still in process.
That means a gift made today is not yet a deductible charitable contribution, and we are not going to tell you otherwise. If the IRS grants exemption, deductibility can reach back to the organization's formation date. If it does not, it never applied. That decision belongs to the IRS, and nobody here can promise the outcome.
We would rather you knew that before you gave than after.
It's always a great day to be a Ute!
Molonai Hola
Founder
Sports Advisors. The person who started this group.
Scott Mitchell
Founder
Quarterback for the Utes, then twelve NFL seasons with Miami, Detroit, Baltimore and Cincinnati. He still holds the Lions single-season records he set in 1995. Utah Sports Hall of Fame.
More former Utah players are joining. Every name here is added only with that person's permission.