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Throwback Thursday: McBride was tasked with beating UW
Published: June 3, 2021
7 Sep 1996: University of Utah Utes head coach Ron McBride looks on from the sidelines during game against the University of Stanford Cardinals at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. The Univerity of Utah won the game 17-10.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah,
Ron McBride’s goal was to shake things up. That’s one of the reasons the University of Utah’s new football coach moved “the meat” of his first fall camp 125 miles southeast of Salt Lake City to Price, a desolate, wind-blown cow town of around 9,000 people. You don t want to be necessarily in a nice place, McBride told the Deseret News back in 1990. You re there for business. You want few distractions.
OGDEN The breakthrough of Weber State football under head coach Jay Hill continues.
For the first time in his seven seasons leading the Wildcats, Hill was named Big Sky Coach of the Year. It was announced Thursday after a vote of the league s coaches.
Hill guided the undefeated Wildcats through a five-game spring campaign to their fourth consecutive conference title and first outright championship in program history with a 5-0 record. The 46-year-old coach is the first Weber State recipient of the Big Sky Coach of the Year since Ron McBride in 2008.
In his first full-time collegiate coaching gig, Hill has turned around a Weber State program in every way. The Wildcats are 52-30 under his guidance, including a 37-10 record in the last four seasons that includes four FCS playoff appearances and a 26-3 mark in Big Sky play.
OGDEN The breakthrough of Weber State football under head coach Jay Hill continues.
For the first time in his seven seasons leading the Wildcats, Hill was named Big Sky Coach of the Year. It was announced Thursday after a vote of the league s coaches.
Hill guided the undefeated Wildcats through a five-game spring campaign to their fourth consecutive conference title and first outright championship in program history with a 5-0 record. The 46-year-old coach is the first Weber State recipient of the Big Sky Coach of the Year since Ron McBride in 2008.
In his first full-time collegiate coaching gig, Hill has turned around a Weber State program in every way. The Wildcats are 52-30 under his guidance, including a 37-10 record in the last four seasons that includes four FCS playoff appearances and a 26-3 mark in Big Sky play.