I'm hearing: Kyle Wittingham Door. Ass. Out.

BallSacked

larrybrownsports.com/college-football/kyle-whittingham-utah-ad-chris-hill/251071

Wittingham wanted a pay day for a 9-4 season and AD said 'nah'. Implosion in process.

TommySQC

No way. Would be a death nail in their recruiting class though I am not sure it's great anyway.

jecornel

I would not fire the guy...

bananasnblondes

Maybe Gary Andersen told them he would jump his OSU deal if the Utah job came open

BallSacked

jecornel said:

I would not fire the guy...

I wouldn't either. They were a good team the past two years with some of the worst QB play in the league. Great Defenses, and were always tough to play in SLC.

I have heard that Gary Andersen really wanted that job, I believe he's an alum, now that that's off the table not sure who they really turn to.

TierbsHsotBoobs

BallSacked said:

jecornel said:

I would not fire the guy...

I wouldn't either. They were a good team the past two years with some of the worst QB play in the league. Great Defenses, and were always tough to play in SLC.

I have heard that Gary Andersen really wanted that job, I believe he's an alum, now that that's off the table not sure who they really turn to.

They were 2-7 in 2013.

But still...

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

https://twitter.com/975Hans/status/548917538495533056

YES... Hans Olsen is my source!

haie

Utah is just happy to be in the league.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

Apparently this has been coming for awhile now. The AD there refused to give a raise to Kalani Sitake, one of the reasons he left. Utah is losing their best assistants (who Whittingham likes) all because they won't pay for it.

DerekJohnson

We're now getting reports that Chip Kelly has been spotted at Salt Lake City International Airport

claycha

DerekJohnson said:

We're now getting reports that Chip Kelly has been spotted at Salt Lake City International Airport

Him and Hans Olsen were fighting over a cab

Tequilla

Things on the surface sometimes don't always make sense ... but then more information comes out and they really start to make sense.

Whittingham is a very solid coach and what Whittingham has done there carrying on from the Urban Legend is nothing to sneeze at. Even though they aren't necessarily recruiting all of the edgy kids that I've heard you need to be successful at the PAC level, his teams tend to play very hard, are sound defensively, play great on the lines, and have tremendous special teams. It will be hard to imagine that Utah won't take a significant step back with whoever their next coach is - particularly given that part of what is driving the rift is a lack of pay for assistants.

Three very quick thoughts:

1) For any targets that we're looking at that have Utah interest (I seem to recall an OL that we were interested in), we take advantage of the situation.

2) Whittingham would be a great fall back plan for Michigan if Harbaugh decides to stay in the NFL

3) If I'm the Utah President, the AD is door.ass.out as soon as Whittngham leaves.

Gladstone

priapism

Spurned for looking at Husker hips?
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/04/report-nebraska-also-met-with-utah-head-coach-kyle-whittingham/

HuskyJW

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

Apparently this has been coming for awhile now. The AD there refused to give a raise to Kalani Sitake, one of the reasons he left. Utah is losing their best assistants (who Whittingham likes) all because they won't pay for it.

Are you saying you've known about this for a while but didn't want to say anything?

chuck

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

https://twitter.com/975Hans/status/548917538495533056

YES... Hans Olsen is my source!

Fuck you for saying that before I could.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

HuskyJW said:

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

Apparently this has been coming for awhile now. The AD there refused to give a raise to Kalani Sitake, one of the reasons he left. Utah is losing their best assistants (who Whittingham likes) all because they won't pay for it.

Are you saying you've known about this for a while but didn't want to say anything?

Yes, but unlike DM.c I will say that I heard of this a few weeks ago from this thing called the internet/twitter that now exists. There was an article from earlier in the year talking about how Sitake was pissed that Dave Christenson (who just left to T&M) was getting paid more than him in his very first season and the AD refused to give him a raise.

TTJ

He'd be a good hire for SC. Which thankfully means Haden will sit tight.

uw2010

Paging Reed Strong

GrundleStiltzkin

I'm hearing (I actually am) that Dennis Erickson is trying to get the HC job on interim basis.

uw2010

GrundleStiltzkin said:

I'm hearing (I actually am) that Dennis Erickson is trying to get the HC job on interim basis.

Hans?!?