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
achievement definitely great guys positive team
It's an accomplishment and a lot of these guys on the team have been a part of all of them, ... It's great for the guys and definitely a very positive thing.
caught good situation win
It?s a good situation for us. You win up front. You can never be caught short-handed in the front.
great snow whether
It's a great surface. Whether there's snow on it or not, it's not a big issue.
easy everybody game games might mode panic quite scheduling seven
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.
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.
available avenues best decided explored
We explored a whole lot of different avenues and decided NAU was the best available to us.
definitely lose rules team
It hurts. You don't want to lose players. We'll definitely feel the effects, but team rules and regulations are more important.
football good minutes played
We played about 55 minutes of very good football,
achievement country defense dominate football good prepared quite team win yards
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.
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.
allowed bottom controlled defense good half line outing points poorly seven tackled
As poorly as our defense tackled in the first half and as much as they controlled the football, the bottom line is still points allowed. And we only allowed seven points, which is a very good outing for the defense.
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
absolutely coaching entirely football good group potential program staff time
This is an entirely different group of players, we have a new coaching staff and there are a lot of things going on in this program that will take time to come to fruition. Are we where we need to be right now? Absolutely not. But I feel good about the potential of this football team.
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.