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Utah Utes football: Whittingham credits players for success
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to have coach K at the U.
Remember, coach K was TDS's first choice....?
SoCalUtahFan
"no, I actually feel that this years team speed closely resembles that of the speed we've had for the last four seasons."
Suddenly I feel very confident about that game in mid November.
Love Coach Whit! Love the U!
same defense, same QB...the only suspension is how many completions Maxi will throw to Utah defense.
Coach Brocno has higher goals.
Did you get up too early in the morning?
I am so proud of the Utes this year and how they have handled their rebuilding year.....
What a class act coach Whit has instilled in the players both on and off the field.
GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 BCS trips to 0
Inferiority? More like Superiority Complex based on the actual facts.
To: Some things never change | 3:46 a.m. if you read the article you will find that it references BYU. You know, there are disorders that explain your continual counting of articles on these boards. You are right in one respect, some things never do change. I think I would be a little more discrete if I were you.
I love Coach Whitt and what he has done for Utah
As for your negative comments towards MOOSE'S thoughts and prediction....there is such a principle in the constitution known as Freedom of Speach.
As a Staunch supporter of the Utes, I just laugh at his comments and I certainly don't take offense.
So maybe YOU would be better off just reading the articles and NOT the comments if it hurts your ego so much!!!
Anyway, U fans, we are the luckiest fans in the college football world. I hope we get to keep Coach Whit for a lot more years. I love to see Y fans covet what they will likely never be able to do or have. They spawned the BCS in 1984 and can't even crash their party. The Y can claim a national championship and the U can't, but I'll take what we got last year as there wasn't a lot of vitriol and outrage like there was surrounding that BYU 1984 team. We got the love, you got the shove.
Sad
Go UTES!!!!!!
Even when your own team is winning, it's part of the fun to bash your rival.
However, when your team is losing horrifically, like the Cougars, it's natural to slink away from rivalry smack.
For Texas fans, part of the fun is bashing OU. If your logic were applied, Texas fans have an "inferiority complex."
Perhaps you should take a page out of Whitt's book - stop whining and start winning.
That's why it's even more intriguing to me that Ute fans act the inferior part. Coming off a BCS year and yet they still talk about the Cougars. What does that say for your program?
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It says we can talk and chew at the same time. I can love my Utes and despise everything BYU stands for.
If Utah has an inferiority complex then what would you call fans celebrating at Provo Airport for a 1-0 team?
Its funny growing up in the 80s our season was defined by playing BYU. Now, a season is considered a disappointment if end up in Vegas while Vegas is defined as success at BYU (for proof see 2006-2008 BYU seasons).
I'm proud of my UTES!!
Coach Brocno has higher goals....
BYU fans should be proud that Bronco has higher goals...After all, this is America, everyone can "dream an impossible dream"
Utah fans are just happy that we have coach Whit. And happy that we win BCS games once in a few years.
not only whine, Kewger fans will remind us that they won NC first --way back to 1984, while cold war was still going on, people still listened to disco, Donny and Marie were still young...
For instance, when I congratulate KW for his fine season last year where he finally caught up to Crowton's amazing four year total of MWC championships, it's not because I feel inferior to ewe-tah. And when I respond to smack about my own team getting killed by FSU and TCU with a simple reminder that Utah keeps eeking by teams BYU crushed, it's definitely not inferiority.
In my view, KW and many on his coaching staff are just some of many BYU grads succeeding and making the world a better place.
Question. Do you think Donko and the BYU fans would trade in a 59-21 win over UNLV and a 54-28 loss @ LES to average FSU, for say a 35-15 win over UNLV and a 31-24 loss @ Oregon? Yeah, thought you would.
BYU will keep on beating up garbage teams, while getting whipped by good teams. To quote Dennis Green "The Cougars are who we thought they were!" You're right Denny, the Cougars have certainly shown us the last 12 months that they cannot even compete with good teams!
Right. But what you refuse to acknowledge or admit even to yourself is that Coach Whittingham would rather beat the stuffing out of BYU than work for them.
btw...BYU grads are not the only people who succeed and help make this world a better place. If you truly believe they are then I truly feel sorry for you.
When you have to give FREE tickets to all your students just to fill up a 45,000 seat stadium, you are NOT a big time program. Keep playing Yewts.
Utah
2008 13-0 #2 in the nation
2009 7-1 #14 in the nation
BYU
2008 10-3 #25 in the nation
2009 6-2 not ranked
Who has the "big program" now? I'd say Utah does.
"Keep playing Yewts, and winning every week! Try not to stumble and get beat by 30 at home, to an average ACC team."
There, I dropped the truth in for you.
Re: 12:30pm: I can accept that K-Whitt turned BYU down for nearly twice as much money from Utah where he doesn't have to deal with the recruiting limitations from the HC. Don't get me wrong, I love BYU football, but I would have probably done the same thing. I'll sign up to work for the UofU right now for an extra $250K a year. Who wouldn't?
As for beating the stuffing out of BYU, he's 2-2 against BYU (soon to be 2-3) so if he took the Yewt job just to beat down BYU, then his job satisfaction must be in the toilet.
Go Utes!!!!
I doubt I am the only one posting comments that has actually gone to both schools - I have degrees from both. BYU had the opportunity to win me over. I was there during their glory days, but Utah has ALWAYS been my team.
All that being said, I try to speak with reason, not emotion:
The balance of power between Utah, based on conference championships, head to head wins, bowl games, and wins against quality opponents, changed in the mid-90s, on Coach McBride's watch. Yes, BYU has had very good seasons since then (and will again), but Utah's body of work is more impressive over the last 15 years that BYU's. The numbers don't lie.
I want it all - bowl (preferrably BCS) wins, wins against quality OOC opponents, conference championships, and wins over BYU - in that order.
Just my opinion.....
Coach Whit is:
1) a classy person
2) an excellent coach
3) first choice of BYU in its search for football coach
4) wise man for choosing Utah instead
I am with "30 years"... I bleed RED always, but I hope the Coogies do well (except the rivalry game). It's best to see my UTES and the MWC beat up on BCS teams. I still razz my Bama coworkers about getting throttled by the UTES in NO.
GO UTES!!!!!
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By the way, is it possible that I actually got a comment in on the Utes before that Boise "Moose" guy gets in and trashes anything related to the Utes? DNews editors, why do you keep allowing that guy in? I swear you allow his 4 to 5 comments in everyday, yet censor other comments, like mine.