How Kyle Whittingham transformed Utah football | Big Dumb Football

[@milo8425]

Actual living legend. He's grinding down the entire system. He'll do it all over again from the Big 12.

[@Ojbwatchn]

Amen brother

[@viprthered]

As a Utah fan I always love the moment of loudness and seeing the visiting team also stand and turn on their phone lights

[@jimford6478]

This is a great video. Now a Utah supporter!

[@Connor-w5g]

I couldn't have been blessed with a more awesome program to be associated with my whole life. We've had season tickets since the 90's! Rice Eccles is going to be rocking today! Utes 28-24 🙌

[@JaredW22]

There will be a statue of Kyle Whittingham at Rice-Eccles Stadium, it is only a matter of time.

[@pnwdweler4100]

Hopefully the rename the stadium after him like BYU did for Lavell Edwards.

[@releasingnow]

Excellent job Spencer Hall. This team, it's culture and rise to stardom has one foundation-corner stone. Coach Whitt.

[@JasonSpjut]

dude is a legend. Utes here to stay

[@rods5569]

Great video. If i could add a few things. Utah didn't have to look hard to find Jonah Ellis, his father Luther Ellis is an all time Utah great. Luther played under Ron McBride. It was McBride and staff that laid the foundation for the run first, play tough defense identity that is Utah. Kyle Whittingham was on that staff. I'd also credit McBride with expanding and emphasising the Polynesian recruiting pipeline. Speaking of run first and Polynesians, look up Chris Fuamatu-Maʻafala. That should give you a good idea of where this all started. HATU

[@Amenras]

100% McBride kicked off the culture that's present at Utah now. Whittingham learned from him for almost a decade as the defensive coordinator. Luther Elliss is Utah's defensive tackles coach for a second season.

[@carterhealy]

My health teacher was a coach at corner canyon at the time when Jonah Ellis was there

[@GageLawrinse]

Pardon my ignorance, what does HATU mean?

[@702TifosiGambler]

Any football aficionado and or profitable gambler has respected Utah once they defeated Bama in 09 Sugar Bowl back when everyone played and took Bowl Games seriously. Bama squad had Mark Ingram and Julio Jones and was held to 2 TDs. Because of its location and relatively small market and given where other schools are located within the Pac12 it’s often under appreciated by the avg joe but make no mistake opponents don’t undervalue the Utes they’ll get your undivided attention.

[@Cooe.]

While partially true back then, metro-SLC's really not a small market anymore. 🤷 It's the 2nd biggest population center/media market in-between Sacramento & Denver (only outstripped by Phoenix. Aka, yes, it's bigger than even Las Vegas!). The Wastach Front metropolis anchored on SLC (aka the SLC/Ogden/Provo CSA ["Combined Statistical Area"]) is literally the 22nd biggest in America at nearly 3 million people! Making it similar sized to CSA's like St. Louis, San Antonio, and Portland, and BIGGER than "major media markets" like Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, or Milwaukee! Hence why Salt Lake literally has teams in 3/5x of the major North American professional sports leagues by this point. People think the SLC media market/metropolis is MUCH smaller than it actually is simply because the population of SLC proper isn't particularly huge at ≈210,000 (like ≈100th biggest city in the US) as it's both a MAJOR commuter city and never annexed the most densely populated parts of the entire state in SLC's inner suburbs such as West Valley City (which has like 150K people in like 1/6th of SLC's land area) as most major American cities did historically. 🤷 In terms of look, feel, size of downtown, etc... SLC's much more like a city of ≈400,000 than it is ≈200,000.

[@scottdenham1677]

Wow, loved this

[@brays_w]

Utah ain’t going anywhere soon! Go Utes!

[@jaymacpherson8167]

Utah has been a continual threat to all their opponents, for a long time. As a Duck fan, I am not confident about the outcome of today’s game (20231028).

[@702TifosiGambler]

When two teams are about evenly matched if the home team has an advantage at QB & HC you take the home team. Hence why Washington over Oregon was the obvious play. Utah has HC advantage not QB advantage but top to bottom Oregon has health on their side and more overall talent. This is going to be a weird game, I don’t trust Bo Nix or Lanning in close games on the road, stay away game as a bettor.

[@chrislane3228]

I loved this episode and this is the first that I have seen. Seriously. Awesome stuff. Thank you. College football is just the best. Great show.

[@thecrawlr7425]

Polynesian domination

[@a.mnmemories4289]

I played high school football with poly's. You're not lying when you say domination. Alta hawks baby!!

[@losthestrengthcoach5524]

ESPN give us more of Spencer Hall

[@SamWinderArt]

Agree. Utah didn’t look good against Oregon in 2023, but Utah will remain a good team moving into the Big 12 and will win a lot of games.

[@Cooe.]

Utah was playing mostly 3rd through 5th string players in that game... It's bearing on how Utah will look this year is almost completely irrelevant. 🤷

[@badhoplite7299]

Bro's working on some Greenskins in the background, that Stompa gotta be a pain to put together

[@BrunoJaws]

Utah recruits California very well then developes NFL talent.

[@XxBonzeD4Kill4xX]

They dont get the athletes oregon or sc gets but agree development ofer their is crazy

[@EzraLaw234]

Go Utes!

[@_Doodle-bob]

Utes by 3!

[@evancoopersmith]

Spencer Hawes.

[@jaymacpherson8167]

The question I’ve been afraid to ask would not be one I’d pose to the biased ESPN.

[@mileslong4061]

Urban Meyer opened Kyle’s eyes to how it is done.

[@Cooe.]

... Not quite. Kyle took what worked from Urban but left much of what didn't. 🤷 He's WAAAAAAAY more serious and hard-line than Urban could ever have even dreamed of. He would never have let Urban's Jacksonville absolute utter disaster happen.

[@mileslong4061]

@@Cooe. Urban went on to win 2 National Championships with two different colleges. I don’t think there was much he did at Utah, Florida, or Ohio State that didn’t work.

[@Cooe.]

@@mileslong4061 Ask any players from those locker rooms how healthy and sustainable those environments were lol. Sure, Urban could undoubtedly execute at a high level thanks to his offensive schematic wizardry, but only ever in the short term. He didn't have the demeanor or authority to keep a disciplined program long-term. 🤷 There's a reason he never managed to stay long at one place. The fact he managed to make it even 6 years at OSU is a minor miracle in and of itself! Jacksonville was just a speed-run of the "Urban Meyer coaching experience", only with the "being good due to X's & O's" part shortened to basically non-existence (as his tricks & schemes just aren't effective against NFL level competition when using players he doesn't have forcible full control over).

[@Cooe.]

@@mileslong4061 And lol arguably the biggest reason Florida won those two national championships was Tim Tebow playing like a man absolutely & utterly POSSESSED (aka the best consistent stretch of college QB play until Joe Burrow ripped up all the record books in 2019) NOT Urban Meyer's coaching. 🤷

[@jasonm1838]

There’s no doubt in my mind when he retires there will be statue built in his honor at rice Eccles

[@DWilliams-ce8nb]

Whittingham has been great for Utah football! But we can't forget the work of Ron McBride and Urban Meyer.

[@BrunoJaws]

As a USC fan quite frankly im sick of UTAH.

[@Leviticus-z7w]

Bwahaha let's go utes!

[@BrunoJaws]

@@Leviticus-z7w lol

[@seanfaerber4918]

It’s okay we won’t be seeing you for awhile. We’re taking our 4 game win streak (3-0 against Riley and nail painting Williams) to the big 12. So long

[@BrunoJaws]

@@seanfaerber4918 Thank god for that.

[@SamWinderArt]

Quite frankly everyone is sick of USC. The school of spoiled children killed the PAC-12 to be a mid team in the Big 10, just because the athletic director wanted a big payday.

[@DatLe-mm4oq]

how did michigan flip the script on ohio state the past few years

[@5yearsout]

"Utah? Utah of all places?" Your view from Mount Pious must be amazing.

[@chrislane3228]

I really loved this video. It was both informative and just really good.... very good... great. However... if Kyle Whittingham had this team in the Big 10 (I'm an Ohio State fan), they would look like Iowa.... and no one thinks of Iowa as a powerhouse. Look... I'm not trying to downplay anything that Utah or Whittingham have done. I'm not. I really love what they do. It reminds me of Kirk Ferentz... only Whittingham seems to be able to have good offenses.

[@Cooe.]

The only way this comment makes ANY sense is out of insecurity due to how INSANELY close you came to losing the 2023 Rose Bowl to Utah lol. 🤷

[@stoney2271]

If they could run the table on the new big 10 additions what makes you think they couldn’t handle the big 10? Outside of OSU MU and Penn the conference isn’t all that good 😂 their record against Michigan is actually pretty good as well. I respect your opinion though and I love to watch the buckeyes play

[@azewo1438]

That Oregon game would’ve been better if they were at 100%. Would they have won? Maybe. Oregon was too good for our bench.