Wyoming coach Joe Glenn and quarterback Karsten Sween were reprimanded by the Mountain West Conference Wednesday for comments they made about a hit Sween took in the Oct. 25 game at Texas Christian.
Sween left the TCU game with a concussion after getting hit by linebacker Robert Henson in the third quarter. Scrambling on a second-down play, Sween went for a feet-first slide and was hit on the head by Henson.
Sween was sidelined last week against San Diego State with the injury.
After the game Glenn called it a “cheap shot” on his radio show. He was quoted in the Oct. 28 edition of the Laramie Boomerang, saying: “There are rules . . . Karsten was trying to slide in and the guy led with his head and a penalty was called. I think my response was, if he had been in the NFL, he would be missing some games and a lot of money. Their coach (Gary Patterson) apologized for it, but that doesn’t do us any good.”
Sween told the Casper Star-Tribune: “I think it’s absolutely a dirty hit, and a safety tried to do it earlier in the game on a (zone) read play where I slid. He tried to hit my head and missed, and then later on, I timed my slide up off the cornerback and I didn’t see the linebacker. (Henson) was just going to take me out of the game, leads with his head.”
Sween was cleared Tuesday to play this week at Tennessee, but Glenn said redshirt freshman Chris Stutzriem will start again.
