He escalates. When things get heated, he throws gas on the fire. When a situation requires an adult in the room to calm things down, he goes the other way.

Sometimes it's dumb, like refusing to say BYU or calling the historic rivalry game the "in-state" game.

Sometimes it's downright villainous, like when he accuses one of our players of playing dirty and intentionally trying to injure one of their guys.

Sometimes a situation is volatile and it requires cooler heads to prevail. And in that situation you have Kyle Whittingham throwing chairs around and making wild accusations.

KW feeds every nasty Ute tendency and talking point. Kalani Sitake is trying hard to help his player look across the field and see their brothers; Kyle Whittingham continues to stoke the fires of hatred between the two schools.

I don't know anything about Kyle Whittingham's personal life, but I know what I've seen on the football field. And in that regard, he's a giant word I can't use on this website.