Colton Swan

Here's BYU defensive coordinator Kelly Poppinga.

Now here's the Utes defensive coordinator Colton Swan getting ready for Kansas Saturday.

How we doing, guys?

Doing good.

And he's commanding and demanding and, and I love him to death.

Uh, and then you got a young safety who's in, um, Nate Tillman, who's doing a great job, and he provides a lot of support, so the safeties are phenomenal.

Here's Utah defensive coordinator Colton Swan.

We'll take a break.

think they you know understand adversity and being backed up against the wall and having to fight your way out we kind of have that firefighter mentality you know when everybody else is running out of the building we're running in and we preach that we talk to that all the time and it's our our opportunity to rise up and do our part for the team and so we look at it as an opportunity you know we got ourselves into a hole or you know there might have been a turnover at short field or something like that it's our opportunity to go prove that we can handle tough situations like that

There's Lance Holdsclaw, defensive end and defensive coordinator Colton Swan.

Every coach has their analogies in the stories.

Have you heard the firefighter one before PK?

And their defense is really good.

Colton Swan, the rodeo boy, running that defense.

And the offense looks really strong.

So Utah is a strong competitor right now.

It's in his bones.

Colton Swan, um, done a tremendous job, uh, running the defense.

It's always funny to hear that dynamic, right? Like how often Scally is around checking it out, you know.

That's just, that, that's who he is.

Right.

And so he elevated guys like Shaw and Swan.

They've already been working together for many years, and he was their boss for several years.

So th- this new coaching thing...

Exactly.

I mean, look, there's always a, a healthy amount of doubt.

I think if you were to ask, you know, Colton Swan and Morgan Scally are they worried about stopping the run, no question about it.

But I don't think...

I mean, look, there's always a healthy amount of doubt.

I think if you were to ask You know, Colton Swan and Morgan Scali, are they worried about stopping the run? No question about it.

But I don't think, although this team for the University of Utah feels different a little bit as far as attitude and swagger than maybe some of the Kyle Whittingham teams, I don't think the philosophy's changed on defense.

I feel like they really do want to take away the run, and they really do want to make this team one-dimensional.