Less than 48 hours removed from a gut-wrenching 29-26 season-opening loss at the University Florida, Kyle Whittingham was still lamenting missed opportunities inside the red zone at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
, Kyle Whittingham was still lamenting missed opportunities inside the red zone at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.On the first drive of the second half, the Utes faced a third-and-goal from the 3-yard line. Cam Rising took a shotgun snap and on the keeper, got hit at around the 3, but his second effort appeared to propel him over the goal line for what would have been a 20-13 lead. Instead, Rising was ruled down inside the 1, setting up fourth-and-goal.
“Nobody up there thought, or at least nobody had a vantage point where they thought it should have been challenged. It looks questionable on our tape. I’ve had people watching it on TV telling me he was down, I don’t know. It’s part of the game, but they had ample time to look at it.” Later in his media session, after answering a question about poor tackling from his run defense, Whittingham, unprovoked, went back to the Rising keeper.Two media members present spoke up, saying they thought the play was questionable in terms of Rising crossing the plane, which indicated that having the play overturned on review would have been tough.
“As you reexamine it, you can be a little more creative play calling-wise, that’s the first thing that Coach Ludwig will tell you is that maybe we don’t get quite as vanilla down there,” Whittingham said. “Last year, we were a very good red zone team and again, give a lot of credit to Florida for what they did down there.”Utah’s traveling party touchdown on a charter Sunday evening around 7:20 p.m., roughly 17 hours after it was scheduled to land at Salt Lake City Airport.
“I feel bad for the players,” Whittingham said. “When you play a physical game like that, any game is physical, but especially that one, and you have no time to rest and recover. You’re sitting on a bus, then a plane, then a terminal, I felt bad for those guys. Coaches, we can deal with it, but players, unfortunate to have them have to go through that.
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