I agree. Please please please get us away from playing the TDS!!! I hate that team and I hate that we play them. I love when we beat them, but I would love not having to deal with them ever again even more!!!
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….his reliance on the familiar may bite him in the ■■■. His constant return to old friends and players didn’t change the world for us.[/quote]
Yep.
My theory is because he’s a hardass and not terribly approachable, he leans excessively on people he knows. (Meyer was a genius at sizing people up.)
Three white Mormons in Ann Arbor are like the over-correction when Sharlene Wells was named Miss America after Vanessa Williams had some nudie pix surface.
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LOL
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Wow ! love the obscure analogy !
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I was working at the Bureau of Economic Research at the U when Sharlene Wells became Miss America.
We had this old researcher with a bad stutter. Great dude, very funny. Brilliant economics researcher, always wore a suit and tie.
In a hallway conversation about the new Miss America, somebody said they thought her boyfriend also went to BYU.
Boyd, no studder, spit this out: “I thought the whole football team was her boyfriend”
It was a gut bust I had zero chance of holding in. Thanks, Boyd. He didn’t talk much, but he hit more homers than anyone else in the office, by far.
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Maybe the Basketball Team…or the sons of General Authority’s. 
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I was a teaching assistant in Biology at Syracuse University and Vanessa Williams was one of my students. I had no clue who she was, except she was missing an exam, when another student told me she was attending the Miss America contest. I was so clueless. She never returned to Syracuse University after that.
And this has nothing to do with Whittingham, Utah, Mormons, or TDS.
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I never liked Whittingham as a coach, but I got so frustrated with losing important games over the years.
But the rest of you loved him, and it’s kind sad that you are pissed at him and the coaches he’s poached from Utah. Let’s face it, Michigan is far superior job than Utah, until such time Utah gets its butt into the Big 10. In this world of free agent coaches, Whittingham is no Lame Kiffin, he’s a good person who found a wonderful job. I hope he does well there.
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The first of several. Ridiculous.
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Most of us agree but are conflicted. That’s the best way I can summarize the current gestalt about Whitt.
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I think the timing was perfect and really hard to turn down a top ten program, but, to take so many coaches, staff and players with what appears to be a chip on his shoulder reflects poorly on all the mojo he aquired. I imagine it will be hard to replicate lightning in a bottle in an entirely different milleau.
I’m rooting for the University of Utah to show we produce world class proffesionals on a miriad of fields, including an excellent football team, without him
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Part of me wants him to do well and part wants Michigan to fall apart. As for the U doing anything to honor him, they can wait as many years as the waited on Mac.
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This is my opinion, and mine alone, so if you want to pelt me with rocks and garbage feel free.
Ronnie Mac was given the ball backed up on his own 5 yd line, Whitt took over in the opponents Red Zone. Not to diminish what Kyle did, but Mac was coach Buttermaker from the Bad News Bears. He did more with the talent he had than anyone ever expected.
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Most of remember what Mac inherited. It clouded my view of Fassell for years, especially after his becoming head coach of the Giants. Most of us also know that Mac laid the foundation for where the program is now. Mac’s philosophy of tough well coached players carried through Urban, obviously with Whit, and hopefully with Scalley. Things may have more bells and whistles now, but basics are still needed.
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This is probably dumb of me, but I want Michigan to kill everybody and win many titles under Whit just to show what Utah was and could have been given those type of resources. The “glow-back” is what I would like to see.
If he fails, it will always be the discussion that Utah would have never reached the top with him and was overrated.
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I’ll always appreciate what Whitt did at Utah, but I’ll think about him about as much as he’ll think about Utah… which is probably very little.
He moved on and took what he could. I’m moving on, as well. If I happen to see that Michigan lost a game, I’ll remember Kyle’s words to the team: “Nobody cares”, get over your being butt hurt. If UM doesn’t win the B1G in the next 2 years, nobody will give a damn about Whitt. Nothing personal, that’s just life in the fast lane.
I’m really impressed with the way Scalley has handled things, so far.
I’m sure there will be an adjustment, just like there was for Kyle. That Boise State game in 2006 really had me in apologetics mode, but we went on to better things.
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Well said. Kyle had quite a run here, and he should be thanked for what he did. I’m not thrilled about how things went down here in December, but that’s business. I’m 100% behind Scalley and don’t care a whole lot, honestly, how Whit does at Michigan.
You mentioned Boise St. 2006. It’s crazy to think that after the 2007 shutout loss at UNLV, Whit’s record was a pedestrian 16-13. This included a 1-3 start to the 2007 season and that humiliating 27-point loss to the Rebels, not to mention the blowout home loss to Boise St. in 2006 (where Utah had something like 30 yards passing), a lopsided loss at Wyoming in 2006, a 34-31 loss at New Mexico in 2006 when Utah blew a 24-3 lead, a home loss to San Diego St. in 2005, and a loss at CSU in 2005. A lot of ugly losses in there. After UNLV, Utah went 23-1 in its next 24 games and 42-7 in its next 49.
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Coach Whitt was great and did much that i appreciated.
With that said, I’m fine with him going and hope it works for him. The last several years has been frustrating as Whitt ball hasn’t worked liked he hoped.
My observation is that he is great at being an underdog but had no idea how to play with a lead.
The offense was becoming as predictable as McBrides day.Especially in bowl games, whitt started strong the lost the majority since 2019.
All that said i find it disappointing he was for Utah then acted all hurt when it was time. Like what more do you want? It was all on his schedule to start with.
Now time for Captain Morgan and I’m excited to see how we go forward.
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