While discussing in a broader context the changes in college football and college sports in general, Whittingham was asked about the “permanence” of the Utah-BYU rivalry game.
Yes, that’s right, the royal blue are royally chapped at the Utah football coach for the most basic of made-up reasons: arrogance.They take offense to it, regardless of whether it’s actually given.
Angry BYU fans, as they expressed on social media, interpreted that response as an indication, a substantiation as they saw it, that Whittingham and Utah overall thinks it’s better than BYU, that after a few short years in the dust and clutter of the truck-stop league, the Utes will separate themselves again from the Cougars by being solely elevated to one of a couple super-conferences, presumed to be the SEC or the Big Ten.
I get it. A lot of BYU fans figure, if they’re going to dance, they want to dance with Utah, that both schools should make that a partnership, a priority. And since the Utes deserted them, left them all lonely, hanging out on the floor once before, they might relish the idea of doing it again.A lot of us writers and commentators have been huge proponents of keeping that game alive
What should also be noted is that a few sentences later in the interview, Whittingham said now that the game is back, “at least for the time being, we’ll rekindle that [intensity and passion].” And Whittingham is a smart man who knows exactly what he’s saying as he’s saying it, so there might have been some snark loaded into his specific words, but that wasn’t the thrust of his response. Truth was the main point. He’s fully aware of the upheaval in and around the game now, having just lived through the demise of what once seemed to be solid footing in the Pac-12. So, uncertainty is certainly fresh in his thoughts.
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