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I dug this up in ESPN Insider:
Utah coach dismissed 'Holy War' It's not you. It's me. And Utah is essentially breaking up with BYU while potentially ending one of the nation's great rivalries. "Bottom line is we've got to do what's best for our program," Whittingham told Graham Watson of Yahoo! Sports. "That supersedes anything to do with the rivalry. If taking a year or two off periodically is best for our program, best for our scheduling, then that's what we've got to do. "Our program is bigger than the rivalry. That's got to take a backseat to us doing what's best for our program." Utah is now married to the Pac-12. That comes first. Both schools previously expressed interest in continuing the rivalry, but it's clearly more important to BYU than it is Utah. "I think the operative word with scheduling with nonconference games is balance," Whittingham continued. "The Pac-12 schedule is rigorous. You play nine conference games, which is one more than most conferences play, so that increases the degree of difficulty right there...You don't want to put yourself at a disadvantage by overscheduling your nonconference games." The rivalry may be renewed after the teams face each other in the fall, but it won't likely happen until a few years down the road.
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