Nov 14, 2018
6:45:14am
ALUF 1990 All-American
The nut punching actually happened. Bronco liked having players on the edge of
fighting in practice and that manifested itself in games and in the brawl at the end of a bowl game. I saw obvious head hunting at the blowout 52-10 game. A Ute RB was injured via an obviously intentional gator roll to his leg in a pile-up (I saw the film). BYU has received national press for being a cheap shot team and Nebraska was furious at them (you may remember the out of bounds hit on the Nebraska TE that caused a knee injury). Having said all that, I don't think BYU was ever a particularly dangerous team and I don't think Sitake endorses any of that behavior. Utah players have done cheap shots also (recently and in the distant past). They have a db right now, Blair, who is a great hitter that has received several targeting penalties and everyone associated with the team is mad at him for it.

In summary, I think Ute fans that don't want to play BYU for safety reasons are overplaying the situation and I don't agree with them.
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