The Holladay Chamber of Commerce and Zions Bank presents
University of Utah Men's Football Coach Kyle Whittingham
at the Chamber's June Luncheon.
Date: Tuesday, June 12
Time: 11:45-12:00 (networking); 12:00-1:00 (lunch and speaker)
Place: Cottonwood Country Club (1780 East Lakewood Drive)
Cost: $15 for chamber members with RSVP/$20 at the door/$25 for non-chamber members
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Year at Utah: 8th
Career Record: 66-25
Bowl Record: 7-1*
*Includes 2005 Fiesta Bowl
Kyle Whittingham, the 2008 National Coach of the Year, is 66-25 in seven years as Utah's head coach, winning 72-percent of his games. Whittingham's teams have qualified for a bowl game every year since 2005 and Utah is one of just three teams to win six bowl games during that time (with Florida and TCU).
Overall, Whittingham is 7-1 in bowl games, including a win as co-head coach of Utah's 2005 Fiesta Bowl team. Utah's win over No. 4 Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl improved his BCS bowl record to 2-0.
Whittingham has averaged nine victories a year since his appointment as head coach in 2005 and he already has half of the 10-win seasons in the school's 118-year football history. Utah won 10 or more games from 2008-10, while finishing in the Top 25 all three seasons.
His 2008 team set the school win mark, going 13-0 and earning a berth in the Sugar Bowl, where Utah routed an Alabama team that had spent five weeks at No.1. The Utes finished with a No. 2 national ranking that season and Whittingham was recognized as the National Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards committee.
The country's only undefeated FBS team in 2008, Utah beat four top-25 teams--two that finished in the top 10. In addition to his national awards, Whittingham was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year.
Last year, Whittingham successfully guided Utah through its first season as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The Utes won four-straight league games down the stretch and were in contention for a berth in the Pac-12 Championship game until the last week of the regular season. They finished with an 8-5 overall record, culminating with a Sun Bowl victory over Georgia Tech.
Whittingham's smooth transition to coaching in a BCS conference came as no surprise. Including six years coaching in the Mountain West Conference, he is 18-10 against BCS schools and 8-8 against Pac-12 teams.
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