Uh-oh.

Bad news for Utah and BYU football fans.

You’re not going to like this. There’s a good chance it’s going to ruin your day. You might even find it difficult to live with. It’s possible that it could put a dent in your passion for the annual blue-red rivalry game that past years have taught and encouraged you to embrace feelings of deep-seated competition leading straight up to the edge of lunacy, to the kind of hate that sports can on special occasions stir.

Here it is. Brace yourselves now:

Both of your coaches are really good guys. Not just good guys, but affable, friendly fellas who regardless of your rooting interests would be fun for you to share a meal with or a football conversation or even a heartfelt personal discussion.

That’s right. Knock that goofy frown off your face.

Ute fans already have had to turn straight into the troubling prospect that Kalani Sitake is a decent man. Sure, he’s always wanted to beat Utah, wanted to put a righteous beatdown on the Utes, except for the period when, as a Utah assistant coach, he was one. So, there’s that.

The Cougar coach is as cutthroat, competitive as any BYU coach has ever been. But he’s managed something that is nothing short of a concurrent miracle. He’s a fire-breathing adversary who has every intention of kicking your beloved team to the curb while also being a pleasant, amiable human being. Sitake is an individual to whom you’d be comfortable confessing your most guarded, sensitive personal information and feel good about it.

He might not have always been that way, the guy’s not perfect, but he’s learned a thing or two or three or four, he freely admits, through the years. He knows how to handle — no, that’s too crass of a term — how to treat people in a trustworthy fashion.

He’s a tough coach to dislike, even if he’s standing on the opposite sideline, wearing that color you loathe.

Here’s the thing, listen up all you BYU fans: Morgan Scalley is the same way. He’s as decent as the day is long. Has he made mistakes in his coaching career from there to here? Yeah, he has. But he, too, has listened and learned — and he’s grown. Grown up.

Scalley’s always been smart. He was that as a player, when he led an undefeated Utah team from the back of its defense, and his ability as a coach to dissect what opponents try to do is impressive. As defensive coordinator, he couldn’t always shut down all that, but he almost always knew what needed to happen, even if it couldn’t get done. Nobody knows with exactness yet how accomplished Scalley will become at Utah, but, he’s likely to continue growing into a formidable head coach. Few people are excellent the first time they attempt to do something, but Scalley could be one of those rare exceptions.

More to the point here, he’s the kind of person who — just like Sitake — as competitive as he is, will be difficult for rival fans to detest. In the past, he’s popped off here and there, but that was then. He’s often been fun, a dude you could laugh alongside, unafraid as he is to be personable. Evidence of that most recently comes from a video online of him at something called the Pebble Beach Coaches Classic, Scalley’s first as a head coach, a golf gathering at which coaches hang out together and have a good time. As a first-timer, Scalley was forced, if that’s the right word, to get up in front of the group and sing.

Here’s a challenge: Watch the clip of what happened and try to dislike the man. Go ahead, just try. It’s impossible. The Utah coach sang, all right, he belted out a version of George Benson’s “On Broadway.” Every bit of anger or antipathy Cougar fans might have and harbor for any Utah coach can just drain on out into the fairway when he sings: “They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, they say there’s always magic in the air …” Scalley even tapped his toes and snapped his fingers to the beat, like a cheap lounge singer. The coaches were blown away. He hammed it up without being obnoxious, as everybody joined in by echoing “on Broadway.”

Classic.

None of this is meant to say that Kyle Whittingham or, before Sitake, Bronco Mendenhall were not decent human beings. But, as coaches, they demonstrated certain behaviors that made it easier for Utah and BYU fans to either pretend or assume that they somehow were not that.

It looks as though Sitake-Scalley will be a return to the tone and tenor of LaVell Edwards and Ron McBride. Edwards hated losing to McBride and McBride hated losing to Edwards, but those two men loved each other. Near the end of LaVell’s life, when the former coaches did a radio show together, I’ll never forget the way Edwards leaned against his old foe to steady his footing and how McBride helped Edwards along as they walked in, his arm around his friend. I wish everyone around here could have witnessed those tender moments.

Those guys were hard for anybody to hate on.

And this looks like a return to that. It could be, anyway. Of course, that sentiment is expressed before Sitake and Scalley face one another head to head on the field.

Perhaps none of this matters when it comes to the intensity of the Utah-BYU game. It was all fired up, even when the legends coached. But a healthy dose of likability and respect might be a good thing for Utes and Cougars, even if right here, right now, it might seem like a bad thing, something that could ruin your day.