Provo • College football coaching veteran Aaron Roderick has too much respect for the BYU-Utah football rivalry to make Saturday’s meeting at Rice-Eccles Stadium a personal crusade against the coach and school that fired him nearly two years ago.
But BYU’s new passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach couldn’t be blamed if he did. After 12 years on Utah coach Kyle Whittingham’s staff, the former BYU receiver and offensive graduate assistant was given notice on Dec. 30, 2016, that his contract was being terminated.
“I respect the game enough that I am going to give it everything I have to come out with the win.