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Whittingham regrets Utes' onside kick

Wyoming was never a bastion of good sportsmanship. Good for the Utes, I'm glad they throttled them. But you'll still be 2nd in the MWC.

The AD for Utah should have had the sense to call Kyle into his office and give him a spanking. Everybody is focusing on the on side kick. What about the flea flicker and the fake punt and other plays and not taking your players out earlier. Kyle admitted to having his emotions get away with him. That may be true once, but so many other factors remain unrepentant and unaccounted for. I think cougars fans got the classier guy. He acted like a guy who stole the girl at the beach, (which the utes did), needless to kick sand in the face too.

No question about it, unsportsmanlike behavior.
Good teams are usually a class act, this was immature and petty.

What a hoot! Utah gets even for the way Wyoming treated them last year (and they did not "take it easy" on Utah. They would have run up the score to 100 if they could have). Now Wyoming seems to have forgotten where this all began and they are going to get even with Utah next year. Wyoming, you reap what you sow.

Sorry. I don't by Kwitt's "apology". I watched the game from start to finish, and that onsides kick was a calculated move. He wasn't caught up in an "emotional" moment, despite all the other trick plays he ran.

The play was classless (look at what the score was when it happened) and it will come back to bite him.

I have never been a believer in "pilling it on" against bad teams, but in this case you have a fine Wyoming team that had the potential to come back and beat Utah in the second half. The score was 40-0 after one half and Utah only scored 10 points thereafter, running the ball 18 of 19 attempts in the last quarter. To be completely true to die-hard Utah fans a Utah coach should never let up on a worthy opponent.How many times has "Cowboy Joe" let up on the Utes? Is this a college athletic competition or are we out on the lawn playing a friendly game of croquet and to sooth the feelings of an obviously frusted losing Coach Glenn? Advice to Coach Whittingham: before you let up on anyone, think of your own players first and your loyal fans.They don't come to see a super team like the Utes suddenly become mediocre. Letting up in sports, in baseball or boxing for example, is actually dishonest and can get you suspended. Players who come to play should never be asked to take it easy on the opponent, even to satisfy some "good-old-boy" coaches network.

Now have a better definition of class. Reading this article and seeing the Coach's show last night, Kyle IS remorseful about his decision. Now that he has publicly said he is regretful judge his class now. He did not throw more wood on the fire and say Wyoming deserved more, he expressed remorse.
How many fans will now step back and reconsider their comments about coach Kyle? I doubt we see many of you come back in with comments that you may have regret for what you said about his being "classless."
Go Utes and keep up the good work Kyle!

Sorry Whit...it was still extremely classless. Step it up and be the man that BYU thought you were when they offered you Bronco's job.

I used to tell the quarter back to fumble the ball or throw an interception to the other team and get away so he didn't get hurt.

There are many ways to apologize for running up the score..

Jimmy thinks Glenn got we he deserved. It is one thing for a player to foolishly guarantee victory, but quite another for the head coach to do so. Jimmy thinks what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Whittingham - classless? Yewts - classless? I never knew. And by the way, why does it take a guarantee from the other team to motivate the yewts?

excuses are symptoms of thoughtlessness

Why is everyone still talking about the stupid onside? Get over it!!! Utah wasn't trying to run up the score, there was like 12 minutes in the third and it's not Utah's fault Wyoming can't stop them!

I mean seriously, people are making to big a deal of this whole situation.

GO UTES!!!!!!!

PS- Now it's time for New Mexico......Gonna be a good game......Prediction: Utah-27 UNM-13

How is it that the Utes are so insecure that they take a comment like that as a "spit in the face"? I think every time I play any sport that I am going to win. If I don't, then congratulations to the other team, but I would think that every time you go out there, you should expect to win - whether you say it or not.

How can Coach Glenn be mad at Utah for an onside kick, when he makes a childish comment that guarantees a victory over a team that he knows is playing better than his?
I admit that the onside kick wasn�t the smartest decision ever made by a coach, but it isn�t quite in the class of guaranteeing a victory either. Both coaches made a mistake last week. Glenn�s was just a worse one.

If you are a mature respectable coach and the score is 43-0 you do not allow this to happen: "At times your emotions get in the way of sound decision-making." I hope Coach Whittingham has called Coach Glenn and apologized. If Coach Glenn is still at Wyoming next year I hope he shows he is a better man and does not do something he will regret. Sportsmanlike conduct at all times is the best way to go.

I acceept Kyle's regret for trying the onsides kick. As an Alumni I am proud of the U of U. I don't want to see things that embarrase the school. Let's put this to rest. Enough said.

Go Utah, finish a successful season.

Yea he had better. I don't like the U at all, but that lost all respect that I have ever had for them of for kyle. Well the Y will show the U who is boss.

Wittingham is classless. Case closed. Go Cougars!!!

Interesting. On the "Red Zone" (Channel 4) last night night KW expressed no remorse for the onside kick and in fact tried to justify it. Maybe it was taped before his afternoon remarks. I doubt it though.