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Morgan Scalley once said he hated BYU ‘with a passion.’ Now the Utah head coach wants a different kind of rivalry.

By Salt Lake Tribune · November 4, 2026 · 1 min read
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Morgan Scalley knows you’ve likely seen the video. In the past, and probably again this week. In 2004, during his senior year at Utah, Scalley was filmed telling his teammates he hated BYU “with a passion.” “I know that’s probably going around the internet right now what I said my senior year,” Scalley said this week.

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