Wyoming coach Joe Glenn and quarterback Karsten Sween were reprimanded by the Mountain West Conference today for comments last week about a hit Sween took that knocked him out of the Oct. 25 game at TCU.
Sween left the game with a concussion after a hit from TCU linebacker Robert Henson during the third quarter. Scrambling on a second-down play, Sween went for a feet-first slide and was hit around the head by Henson.
After the game Glenn called it a “cheap shot” on his radio show, then after a Tuesday practice was quoted in the Oct. 28 edition of the Laramie Boomerang as 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. (Robert 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 again will start at quarterback.
