Provo • Congratulatory phone calls and text messages poured in for BYU football coach Kalani Sitake after the Cougars upset No. 6-ranked Wisconsin on Saturday, including one from Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid.
“Anybody that is connected with BYU or connected with me, they reached out,” Sitake said in Monday’s weekly news briefing as the Cougars turned their attention to McNeese State, an FCS opponent from Lake Charles, La. “So you can pretty much guess. There was a lot.”
Pressed for a number, Sitake said he got 420 text messages, including notes from Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, Utah assistant Gary Andersen, and Reid, a former BYU player.