Fred Whittingham

[SeattleUte]

It's fun to reverse Troll SU and have him step into his own potholes.

Time for your 3,000 mile check up. Turn your head and cough.

The day you goad PAC to go over to Utefans and laboriously calculate Senioritis' red star to post ratio compared to yours you can come here and boast about your trolling prowess. Meanwhile, crazy Majerus, cookiegate, SW Baptist and UNLV smack isn't even workmanlike.

[RockyBalboa]

The day you goad PAC to go over to Utefans and laboriously calculate Senioritis' red star to post ratio compared to yours you can come here and boast about your trolling prowess. Meanwhile, crazy Majerus, cookiegate, SW Baptist and UNLV smack isn't even workmanlike.

See?

[Shaka]

I don't know Britton well at all. With that said we are from the same town, went to the same high school, and I was classmates with his oldest sister and her husband. My younger brother and BJ's oldest brother played together on the high school team. When I was college age and only had one blown out knee I played pickup ball weekly on summer break with Britton and Jeff at the stake center on Fashion BLVD in Murray. When I blew out my second knee at one of those pickup games the two Britton and Jeff loaded me in my car and got me home.

While Britton never whispered it in my ear it's well known in these parts that he was not a fan of Majerus. Yes I've heard this from his family members and others who know him better than I do. I've also heard that there were times that he wished he'd have gone to BYU.

On another note Fred Whittingham is one heck of a nice guy. I used to umpire baseball in the league Kyle's kids played in and Fred was a regular. He would always come up and shoot the breeze and was quick with a kind word. I thought he was a great guy which pretty much jibes with everyone elses opinion of him. While Kyle is the coach of my rival I have always had good experiences with him as well.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

My impression that of Majerus was always that he was a decent guy alone, but if you were around him in public he would go from a friendly engaging guy to the Rick persona. This has been confirmed to me by a friend who worked in the athletic department at the school regionally known as the U, and my wife's uncle who knew Majerus for 30+ years.

[DrumNFeather]

What Jay Bilas once said about Bobby Knight applies to Majerus and others of that ilk. As long as you are winning, your methods make you a great motivator. Once you start losing, you're an abusive nut job.

[RockyBalboa]

What Jay Bilas once said about Bobby Knight applies to Majerus and others of that ilk. As long as you are winning, your methods make you a great motivator. Once you start losing, you're an abusive nut job.

It's a good thing no one here thinks picking on a handicapped kid isn't abusive.

[il Padrino Ute]

It's a good thing no one here thinks picking on a handicapped kid isn't abusive.

No one?

[SeattleUte]

Anyone catch the telling little subplot in Doug Robinson's tale? Fred Whittingham, hard drinking, womanizing, full of testosterone, mean as a pit bull, follows his non-Mormon coach out to BYU where he meets a Mormon gal and joins her church. Fred struggles to adjust and finally does and settles back in his wife's home state. The result is Kyle Whittingham, Mormonism's amabassador to the world.

That wouldn't happen today. Today Fred wouldn't come in the first place because his non-Mormon coach woudn't be hired. BYU is insular, inbred, less relevant than ever, and dying on the vine as a result.

[RockyBalboa]

No one?

Actually Majerus is a saint because Andre Miller and Walter Watts graduated under his watch AND he took KVH out to dinner after his Dad died!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Anyone catch the telling little subplot in Doug Robinson's tale? Fred Whittingham, hard drinking, womanizing, full of testosterone, mean as a pit bull, follows his non-Mormon coach out to BYU where he meets a Mormon gal and joins her church. Fred struggles to adjust and finally does and settles back in his wife's home state. The result is Kyle Whittingham, Mormonism's amabassador to the world.

That wouldn't happen today. Today Fred wouldn't come in the first place because his non-Mormon coach woudn't be hired. BYU is insular, inbred, less relevant than ever, and dying on the vine as a result.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Kyle is "Mormonism's amabassador" In fact I was asked on Sunday at an LDS church in Austin, Texas when it got brought up that I was from Utah, if Utah's football coach was LDS. So he maybe hasn't quite reached Joseph Smith status yet.