Ute football: Coaches on far different sidelines
Nick Saban is the man who Forbes magazine featured on its September cover and tabbed as the most powerful coach in sports, citing as evidence his eight-year, $32 million salary and the total control he is given over Alabama’s football program.
Kyle Whittingham was the man who, on the same day he was participating in interviews at ESPN, was mistaken for Bronco Mendenhall by some of the network’s analysts who credited Mendenhall for the good job he was doing at Utah.
When it comes to comparing Alabama’s Saban and Utah’s Whittingham, who will lead their teams onto the field at the Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl, their positions on the proverbial coaching ladder are vastly different.
sltrib.com
12/14/08
Magnolia Tribune
