Michigan lands Kyle Whittingham, not UW’s Jedd Fisch, for coaching job
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Better but not great.
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Since he is coming back for 2026, we have no choice but to LIPO. However, he did a very good job with the 2023 Arizona team. His 3 losses were @ Mississippi State, vs. UW, and @USC. All were by 1 score and he beat a good amount of ranked teams:
The problem so far at UW is that he hasn't had any big wins. That obviously needs to change for his 3rd year at UW.
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same as usual. Not impressed
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Good question. I wouldn’t hate it, but I’m a doog and always think we can win. It’s not like Whittingham is terrible. I think he could probably recruit pretty well at UW too.
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I had never really thought about Whittingham coming to UW instead of Jedd in 2024. I would have hated it at the time. I do think he much more fits the classic Washington vibe of defense and run game though.
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Wittingham never had a great team at Utah in spite of a long run of being decent to good and a fair amount of underdog hype. Urban Meyer showed what the Ute ceiling was, and Witt never came anywhere near that. He was a notch above tallest midget much of the time, but only a notch.
No thanks. He's one position above Mike Riley on the "just think what he could do with a school like <insert blue blood school>'s resources" scale.
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jimmy lake beat whittingham.
whittingham is a utah man (and holy fuck is that athletic department beyond fucked up but not as bad as michigans), but he's spent 30+ years at utah, making the jump to michigan is going to be steep. i doubt he's going to be able to ride his harley to the games anymore.
i doubt he wins a big 10 title, and doubt he goes to the playoff, but he's a nice bridge/adult in the room until the new coach shows up.
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Urban didn’t play in the Pac 12 when at Utah. He wouldn’t have kept racking up undefeated seasons playing a full Pac schedule.
