Prior to Oregon State, Sitake spent 10 seasons at the University of Utah under head coach Kyle Whittingham, also a former Cougar. Sitake started at Utah in 2005 as the linebackers coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2009 before also being named assistant head coach in 2012. While at Utah, Sitake coached several Pac-12 and Mountain West Conference honorees, including Morris Trophy winners Star Lotulelei and Nate Orchard . He also helped 14 players who became NFL Draft picks during his time in Salt Lake City, coaching 12 all-league players and three freshmen All-Americans.
He helped the Utes win seven of eight bowl games during his tenure. Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Kyle David Whittingham is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Utah, a position he has held since 2004, and is the all-time leader in wins at Utah. Prior to becoming the head coach at Utah, Whittingham served as Utah's defensive coordinator for ten seasons. He was named head coach of Utah after Urban Meyer left for the University of Florida in 2004.
He won AFCA Coach of the Year and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2008 after leading the 2008 Utah Utes football team to an undefeated season and a win the 2009 Sugar Bowl over Alabama. He and Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy are the second longest tenured FBS coaches , trailing only Kirk Ferentz. Fitzgerald comes to Southern Utah by way of Frostburg State University in Maryland, where he was the head football coach for the past eight seasons. Coach Sharrieff Shah's famous pep talks aren't only for his wife Jen. For nine seasons, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City husband has been a college football coach at Salt Lake City's University of Utah, where he works as the team's cornerbacks and special teams coordinator. ESPN.com dubbed him one of "10 coaches who adapt and thrive" in 2014, and five of his players went on to play in the NFL.
On November 16, 2020, Zac Erekson was named the head coach of the Snow College football program. Erekson is entering his third season at Snow, second as the head football coach and his 13th year overall in coaching. In Erekson's first season as Head Football Coach he led the Badgers to an 8-0 regular season finish and a trip to the National Championship game.
Prior to coming to Snow, Erekson served as the athletics director and head coach at Skyline High School in Salt Lake City. Before his tenure at Skyline, Erekson coached high school football throughout Texas for 8 years. Erekson coached at 5A Abilene Cooper in Abilene, TX where his team went 12-2 in 2011. While coaching in Texas, Erekson coached future University of Texas WR Lorenzo Joe, Texas Tech QB Clayton Nicholas, BYU RB Trey Dye, University of Houston RB Joseph Glenn, Army DB Max Regan. The 2004 season ended with Utah becoming the first BCS non-AQ conference team to make a BCS bowl game, the Fiesta Bowl. After winning the Fiesta Bowl, the Utes' overall record improved to 12–0.
After the 2004 season, the Utes lost junior starting quarterback Alex Smith to the NFL and head coach Urban Meyer who left to the University of Florida. After the regular season, and before the Fiesta Bowl, Whittingham was offered the head coaching job at Utah and also the head coaching job at his alma mater, Brigham Young University. After struggling with the decision for four days he chose the Utes. Because Urban Meyer had already officially accepted the head coaching job at Florida before the Fiesta Bowl, Whittingham and Meyer acted as co-head coaches of the 2005 Fiesta Bowl.
Utah and the NCAA credit the Fiesta Bowl to both Meyer and Whittingham. Fitzgerald comes to SUU by way of Frostburg State University in Maryland, where he was the head football coach for the past eight seasons. Overall, he brings 22 years of college football coaching experience with him to Cedar City, including 13 years as a head coach.
As one of the longest-serving head football coaches in the history of college football, Kyle Whittingham has created a legacy of his own. In his double-decade stint at the University of Utah, Kyle has accomplished many laurels worthy of his skill and reputation such as the AFCA Coach of the Year 2008. Coming from the family of a renowned NFL player, Fred Whittingham, Kyle was invested in sports right from his childhood and football was on top of everything for him. Preston James Christensen BS93 played football for a year at Ricks College, then, after a two-year absence, enrolled at the U and offered himself as a walk-on player to Jim Fassel, the Us head football coach at the time. Christensen describes his experience playing for Fassel as my year as a walk-on punching bag! Ron McBride took over as head coach the following year and brought Christensen in as the first walk-on turned scholarship player-middle linebacker.
Sitake began his coaching career in 2001 as the defensive backs and special teams coach at Eastern Arizona before becoming a defensive graduate assistant at BYU in 2002 under Gary Crowton. Sitake then joined the staff at Southern Utah where he coached running backs, tight ends and offensive line during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. EPHRAIM, Utah—Britt Maughan was named today as the new head football coach at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. Maughan replaces Tyler Hughes who stepped down earlier this week to continue his education full time.
Hughes will remain at Snow College through the spring semester, teaching classes and working with Maughan and the rest of the coaching staff to ensure a smooth transition. Morgan Scalley is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator at the University of Utah. He also played college football at Utah, where he has spent the entirety of his coaching career. Before taking over as head coach in February of 2009, Fitzgerald spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Southern Virginia.
Prior to his time in Buena Vista, Fitzgerald spent one season as the offensive coordinator at Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee. He also spent two years as the special teams coordinator at Tennessee-Martin. After eight seasons with the Bobcats, Fitzgerald leaves Frostburg State as the winningest coach in program history with a total of 62 victories.
In 2014, Fitzgerald inherited an FSU program coming off its eighth-consecutive losing season with just 18 wins in eight years. After recording a 4-6 record in his first season as head coach, Fitzgerald led the Bobcats to winning seasons every year, including double-digit wins four times. Keith Patterson, who has 15 years of collegiate coaching experience, including 11 seasons as a defensive coordinator, is in his first season as Utah State's defensive coordinator/safeties coach. During his collegiate career, Patterson has coached in 11 bowl games. Fitzgerald played football at Potomac State College before transferring and playing his final seasons as a fullback at James Madison University. After leading his team to an Atlantic 10 Conference championship in 1999, Fitzgerald began his coaching career at Bridgton Academy in Maine in 2000 before returning to James Madison as a defensive assistant in 2001.
Then, suddenly, it was Whittinghams turnhe had first co-head coached that bowl game with Meyer, and then, he took on everything. And while he had either played for or worked for some of the best football coaches in the state of Utahs history, he was still untestedall potential, insight, and instinct. Whittingham became a graduate assistant for BYU during the 1985 and 1986 seasons. In 1987, Whittingham was named defensive coordinator at the College of Eastern Utah.
After five seasons with Idaho State, Whittingham joined the Utah staff as defensive line coach, working alongside his father, Fred Whittingham. In the 1995 season, Whittingham replaced his father as the defensive coordinator, serving under both Ron McBride and Meyer until being named head coach in 2004. Entering his eighth season as the offensive line coach, Jim Harding has also served as Utah's assistant head coach (2017-present) and co-offensive coordinator ( ). He has coached five first-team All-Pac-12 selections and 2016 Morris Award winner in Isaac Asiata. Harding has produced and six NFL draft picks, including four members of the 2016 offensive line and at least one in three of the past six years. Harding's linemen have blocked for a 1,000-yard rusher in six of the last seven seasons.
He came to Utah after five seasons at Wyoming as an offensive line coach and co-offensive coordinator . In a list of the highest paid NCAA football coaches, via USA Today, Sharrieff, a cornerbacks/special teams coordinator, was listed in the 211th spot with a $450,000 annual salary. Meanwhile, according to an additional report from Open Payrolls, it was noted that Sharrieff received a total of $553,215.17 for the 2020 school year, including bonuses, benefits, retirement contributions, and pensions. Right now, Coach Shah is also serving as Jen's financial savior given that she's had her bank accounts taken over by the US government.
USA Today recently released a list of the highest-paid NCAA coaches and Sharrieff made the list. The cornerbacks/special teams coordinator came in at the 211th spot with a $450,000 annual salary. In turn,Open Payrollsnoted that Sharrieff raked in earnings of $553,215.17 for the 2020 school year. This hefty salary includes Coach Shah's bonuses, benefits, retirement, and pension packages. Sharrieff negotiated a good deal for himself considering that he's making 683.2% more than the average salary for university and college employees and 738.9% percent above the national average for government employees. Sitake returned to his alma mater from Oregon State, where he served as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in 2015 under head coach Gary Andersen.
Sitake took the helm at BYU after 15 years in the college coaching profession, which included seven seasons serving as a defensive coordinator and four years as an assistant head coach. And this fall Whittingham starts his fifth season, having won 73 percent of his games as head coach and compiling a ledger over that time. Fifth-year running backs coach Kiel McDonald has progressively elevated the running game. Utah led the Pac-12 in rushing in 2019 as Zack Moss achieved his third consecutive 1,000-yard season and became Utah's all-time leading rusher last season. Moss was named the 2019 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, earned All-America honors and was taken in the third round of the NFL Draft. In 2020, Ty Jordan was named the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year and a Freshman All-American.
Before coming to Utah, McDonald spent five years at Eastern Washington ( ), where he was also the co-special teams' coordinator. The Eagles made the FCS playoffs four times, advancing to the national semifinals in 2012, 2013 and 2016. His glossy bowl record includes a 2-0 mark in bowls currently part of the College Football Playoff New Year's Six, with wins over Pittsburgh in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl as co-head coach and Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl. Aside from the college game, Norvell coached for six seasons in the NFL, four of which were with the Colts and two with the Raiders. While with Oakland he coached tight ends for two seasons and worked alongside an offense that included Hall of Fame receivers Jerry Rice and Tim Brown. His trip to the Super Bowl in 2002 was led by an offense that led the NFL in total yards and passing yards per game.
Norvell joined the Colts coaching staff in 1998 as the wide receivers coach and mentored Harrison to 385 receptions, 5,376 receiving yards and 48 touchdowns during his tenure. His time with the Colts was also the first four seasons of two-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning's career. This year's 11-1 Badgers were ranked No. 3 in the season final poll and led the nation in takeaways , sacks , defensive/special teams touchdowns and safeties . Maughan has served the past two years as Snow's defensive coordinator. He was Snow's linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator from 2006 through 2008.
He then spent two years at the University of Utah where he coached safeties in 2009 and linebackers in 2010 while he was taking graduate level courses. In 2004 he was the running backs coach at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah, and the following year was the Scots' offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He started his coaching career as the line coach at his alma mater, Weber High School in Pleasant View, Utah, in 2003.
When he left the Utah Jazz in 2011 after 23 seasons as the team's head coach, Sloan ranked third in the NBA with 1,221 coaching victories, including 94 with Chicago. He coached the Jazz to two NBA Finals appearances, and four other times reached the Western Conference finals. In 2008, Whittingham engineered the best season in Utah football history. The Utes went 13-0—concluding the season with a Sugar Bowl rout of Alabama, a team that had spent five weeks at No. 1. Utah was declared the national champion that season by major selector Anderson/Hester and was ranked No. 2 in the final AP poll.
Whittingham's success has continued in the Pac-12 Conference where Utah won the South Division title outright in 2018 and 2019, and shared it with USC in 2015. Whittingham has coached 25 All-Americans, including seven consensus picks. He has coached the only major national award winners in Utah football history with three Ray Guy Award winners ( ), a Lou Groza Award winner and a Ted Hendricks Award winner to his credit. Coach Sharrieff Shah has a long and storied history with the Utes football team.
The Utah native played strong safety for the Utes from 1990 to 1993, and he was consistently considered one of the best defensive players in the game. Unfortunately, during his senior season, Shah suffered a career-ending neck injury, prompting him to transition to the legal field. Outside of Jen Shah's earnings on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, she also benefits from the coaching salary earned by her husband, Coach Sharrieff Shah. As RHOSLCviewers know, Coach Shah works as a college football coach and takes home a salary that has put him among the highest-paid NCAA coaches. Recently, fans have looked into Coach Shah's salary as his wife faces up to 20 years in prison for felony fraud charges.
While Jen pleads her innocence in court, her husband has been responsible for supporting his family. Such a coach, Kyle Whittingham, 51, has been with the University of Utah since Urban Meyer left in 2004. Whittingham was the defensive coordinator for 10 seasons at Utah and is in his sixth year as head coach. "DeLane's passion for developing men both on and off the field of play was clear as he progressed through the interview process," said SUU Director of AthleticsDebbie Corum. He played linebacker from 1978 to 1987 before turning to a full-time coaching career from 1988 and becoming a head coach in 2005. However, his most prominent and renowned accomplishment was in 2008 when Utah had an undefeated regular season and also secured qualification for the 2009 Sugar Bowl.
Due to the injury, Wynn, who finished the regular season in spite of his injury, missed the Las Vegas Bowl – a 26–3 loss to the Boise State Broncos. It was the program's first bowl loss since the 1996 Copper Bowl and snapped a 9-game bowl winning streak, which was, at the time, the longest active streak in college football. Sharrieff Shah is in his 10th season coaching the cornerbacks and third year as the special teams coordinator after serving three years as the co-coordinator. Shah has sent five cornerbacks to the NFL, and coached Jaylon Johnson to All-America and first-team All-Pac-12 honors in 2019. He also has a first-team All-America punt returner and a Freshman All-America punt returner to his credit.
The cornerbacks were instrumental in Utah ranking second in total defense and No. 1 in pass efficiency defense in the Pac-12 in 2020. Shah was cited by ESPN.com in 2014 as one of "10 coaches who adapt and thrive." He was a practicing attorney before becoming a coach at Utah. Aaron Whitehead remembers the moment well when his former tight end burst onto the college football scene during the opening week of the 2021 season. University of Utah football fans who tuned into the opening episode of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" on Wednesday night may have noticed a familiar face. Cornerbacks coach/special teams coordinator Sharrieff Shah appeared in the episode, as his wife, Jen,...
Nonetheless, Coach Shah isn't the head coach of the University of Utah. Instead, he has been the Utah Utes' cornerbacks and special teams coordinator for nine seasons. Cited by ESPN.com in 2014 as one of "10 coaches who adapt and thrive," Shah has helped his players do the same, developing five cornerback converts into NFL players. Onetime safety Keith McGill was the first Pac-12 cornerback drafted in 2014—by Oakland in the fourth round. Eric Rowe, who also began his Ute career at safety, was a second-round pick of Philadelphia in 2015 before going to New England, where he played on three Super Bowl teams ( ), and now Miami. Receiver-turned-cornerback Brian Allen was drafted in the fifth round by Pittsburgh in 2017.
Dominique Hatfield came to Utah as a receiver before moving to cornerback—later joining the L.A. Rams as an undrafted free agent—and Josh Nurse moved from wide receiver to safety to cornerback and was signed by Baltimore as an undrafted free agent in 2020. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Kyle went to high school in Provo, Utah. A former Defensive Player of the Year, he received coaching offers from both BYU and Utah. It's like being offered both North Carolina and Duke basketball head coaching jobs. And to think this all started with a phone call from former ACU football coach Chris Thomsen – at a time when Patterson figured his next move was being a defensive coordinator at another school.
At the Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, a tribute video -- one that had also been played in Rice-Eccles Stadium during the season -- played inside the venue. On the field, Phillips felt himself start to tear up and needed a moment to collect himself. He and Lowe talked about winning the Pac-12, and here he was about to turn that dream into a reality, while being reminded that Lowe wasn't there to share it with him. That defense placed five players on the all-Big East team and featured one All-American. BYU also recorded 11 wins for the first time since 2009 and only the 12th time overall in program history. In 2009, BYU finished ranked No. 12 in both final polls with an 11-2 record.
Described by her husband, Chad, as "the best athlete in the family," Lewis followed him into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame. She led BYU to the 1993 Final Four as an All-America outside hitter and was named the Western Athletic Conference player of the year. The Cougars posted an record during her three seasons as a starting player.
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