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
available avenues best decided explored
We explored a whole lot of different avenues and decided NAU was the best available to us.
attached players speaks
I think it speaks to the preparation of our players and the mindset. It's awesome, everything that is attached to this victory.
excited last program quality schedule series several state successful
A series with Boise State makes sense for a lot of reasons. For the last several years they have been very successful and we're excited to have a quality program like Boise State on our schedule
america clock defensive format game hold hope limit running thin
Like everyone in America, we're a little thin particularly on the defensive side. So we'll have to limit things on Saturday. We still hope to have a game format with a running clock and so forth. If we hold up we should be able to get that done. If we get a little more banged up we may have to adjust.
anxiety defensive definitely departure far feeling routine stress
The feeling hasn't been different, but the routine has. It's such a departure from what I was used to as defensive coordinator. It's definitely different. But as far as the anxiety and the stress level, it doesn't feel different to me at all.
dean guy rely
He's the dean of the safeties back there and actually in the secondary. He's the guy back there with the most experience, and we rely on him a bunch.
couple defensive depleted excellent line lost numbers recruiting
I think the defensive line is going to be the most depleted area. We lost two excellent players, and we've had a couple years of defensive line recruiting that we didn't have as many numbers as we would like to have had.
blame cannot coaches officials stand understand whine
I had some issues, obviously. But one thing I cannot stand and never will be able to understand is coaches who put blame on officials and whine about officials. I will never do that. That's just not how I'm built.
numbers
I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.
coming exactly great hard head pan people seen shape success within year
Coming into this year, people already know what (the head coach) is all about and have seen the success the year before. We're at or within one of our allotted scholarships for each position. We feel like we're in great shape right now. It's hard to say exactly how it will pan out, but as of right now we addressed all our needs.
desperate teams
It will be two teams in desperate need of a win.
athlete athletics faster heck program stronger summer
We've got to get every athlete in the program bigger, faster and stronger between now and August. We've got to have a heck of a summer conditioning program.
coming constantly people players remind
We have to constantly remind people that we have about 15 players that are still coming along,
continue front good guys hit islands majority point state year
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.