Those are the four words that best encapsulated Utah’s Red-White game on Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium, and they had no complete connection to what actually transpired on the field. Only a partial.
The entire affair ended the Utes’ spring football practices with the closest thing to a party that could be extracted from what, in theory, was a controlled scrimmage. Before play even began, school administrators announced that the Ken Garff Family had contributed $17.5 million to aid expansion and upgrades to Rice-Eccles. So, everybody on hand was in a good mood about that.
When the action commenced, many starters, just as Kyle Whittingham had predicted, stood and watched while less established players did much of the work, played the game, entertained the 6,000 fans on hand, made their mark.