Kyle Whittingham
Kyle Whittingham
Kyle David Whittinghamis the head football coach of the University of Utah Utes. Prior to becoming the head coach at Utah, Whittingham served as Utah's defensive coordinator for ten seasons. He was named head coach of Utah after Urban Meyer left for the Florida Gators in 2004. He won AFCA Coach of the Year and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2008...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 November 1959
CitySan Luis Obispo, CA
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We're blessed with a good quarterback situation that Utah's never had. We're not ready to determine the pecking order yet.
guys hurt ready three
We have three guys who are ready right now, in my opinion. And one guy that's hurt.
guys plays today
We had so many guys make plays today it was unbelievable.
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We feel Northern Arizona is a quality I-AA team. And that was the best scenario for us.
appreciate decided direction ryan team thomas wish
Thomas and Ryan decided to go in a different direction. We appreciate the contribution they made to the team while they were here and we wish them well.
guys healthy missed spring stayed
We stayed pretty healthy during spring, so that's not an issue. We've got to get the guys back that missed spring ball.
available avenues best decided explored
We explored a whole lot of different avenues and decided NAU was the best available to us.
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We're going to continue to hit the islands and make that a point of emphasis. We've got very good front guys out of the state of Hawaii, but this year a majority of our front guys come from in-state. It was an exceptional year in-state for front guys.
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When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.
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A lot of people are doubting us right now, ... But the reality is that we've lost two conference games on the last play of the game. . . . We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores running around out there, and they're good players. You look at us on paper, and I think we have the chance to develop into a very good football team this year and into next.
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Today is like a Wednesday-type practice. We got a lot of work done. It was a fairly clean practice. It was a good work day.
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We prepared very well for them. I thought we would play well, but I didn't think that we would win like this. They're the 10th-ranked defense in the country and we put up over 500 yards on them. They're a very good football team and we were able to dominate them. It's quite an achievement for us.
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We played about 55 minutes of very good football,