I wonder how much he has in his 401(k)?
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From The Athletic this morning.
Messy
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Utah still wanted Whittingham, kind of
On Dec. 13, Kyle Whittingham announced he would no longer be Utah’s head coach, leaving after a 21-year run that included a No. 2 finish in 2008, a .668 overall winning percentage and an ascent from the Mountain West to FBS’ third-stablest conference.
Two weeks later, he was Michigan’s head coach. The hire felt like a surprise bailout for the sloppy Wolverines, greatly impressing rival coaches.
It also raised all sorts of questions about how and why the Utes had let him go. Thanks to newly revealed documents, we have a bit more insight. In short: It was weird stuff.
The whole report is worth a read. The oddest part, coming after Whittingham’s agent requested raises to the head coach’s salary, the NIL fund and the assistant coach budget:
“Instead, Utah offered an $8 million salary to return but with stipulations that longtime defensive coordinator and coach-in-waiting Morgan Scalley would have ‘full and final oversight in decision-making for the areas of football recruiting/player personnel staffing and the General Manager position’ and ‘complete decision-making authority over all football recruiting, roster management and staffing matters that impact the program beyond the 2026 football season.’”
Utah athletic director Mark Harlan then installed Scalley immediately after the 66-year-old Whittingham left.
Over the years, Harlan was reportedly tired of Whittingham’s uncertainties about exactly how long he’d keep coaching. Sure, that’s fair. But offering the program’s chief architect — whose team nearly made the Playoff last season, by the way — a semi-figurehead role, with a career assistant taking over the most critical head-coaching duties? Weird stuff!
As “The Audible” discusses, this looks like yet another example of coach-in-waiting setups not working.
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Only the maximum amount he could contribute under law…and how the investment choices performed. 
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Basically some of this is reinforcing my original opinions that I stated months ago, when I took that break. It’s clear that the university f*** things up pretty radically, and at this point I’ve lost a lot of respect for Harlan.
But now it does boil down to this for me… I am profoundly permanently and irrevocably disappointed in Kyle. I thought he was a better human being than this, but apparently his ego and his greed did come into play. Things that I truly thought he was somewhat above. I don’t know if his wife had any part in it? But I do know this just because you are worth a certain amount of money in terms of how that whole economy and business now works,… Let’s stop calling it any kind of athletic endeavor… Doesn’t mean you have to demand that kind of money. That’s when your ego and your greed take over and you fall victim to the biblical comment about the love of money is the root of all evil. There is no way on hell Kyle needs this kind of money for anything, unless he suddenly plans on becoming a magnificent philanthropist to put Jon huntsman to shame.
I know I have something of a dinosaur at this point even compared to my four beers, because I am one of those two people out there holding the line on what a sense of honor and dignity and integrity me. To some degree I suppose part of it comes from the fact of my background and foster homes and the fact that for only the second time in my entire life I received a $1,000 small request from someone’s will and my stepmother died. That makes a grand total of $2,000 of inheritance across my entire 64 years of life. Money has never been an issue in my life I’ve never had it and I never will. It’s on degree I tend to think it’s the good Lord keeping me out of that horrific swamp of corruption. So I will never ever accept or understand people throwing away everything that is good and noble and honorable about them in the pursuit of money.
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Now because the war going on in rages my military side, makes me feel like my own military service is now responsible for nothing other than crippling my body because very few people truly respect me anymore. You combine that with this reminder about how Kyle was not the person I thought he was and it’s time for me to take another break.
It’s been good catching up with you guys for a while. The people who want to do know how to reach me if we ever decide to have another luncheon again. Take care of yourselves peeps
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@Kosh, please don’t be a stranger here!
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