hatred Whitt may or may not have for BYU (and I don’t know if he hates BYU - seems like there are several data points that he may, but who knows).
Even with what you’re saying being true - it’s still the head of a football program doing what’s in the best interest of building his own program. I don’t think we can say Utah is going after these recruits that BYU was also going after because Whitt hates BYU.