Kyle Whittingham looked and sounded cool and calm as a man could look and sound under the circumstances.
And from this viewpoint, that cool and calm made him look like more of a man, not less.
He answered questions, unhappy questions, directly, matter-of-factly, just-short-of-pleasantly, breathing between his deliberate sentences and dialing in on the answers, without the stupid, over-the-top anger and defiance that is so common among coaches in modern college football.
The 2017 Utah football season would be what it is — a bit of a disappointment, level at 5-5 with two to play, and maybe, maybe, a bowl game added at the end.