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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Inside-Drink-1311 on 2025-12-27 03:19:12+00:00.
The way Utah handled Kyle Whittingham’s departure is insane to me. Guy was a legend at Utah. Yeah, he took over for Urban Meyer but people forget he had an undefeated season too in 2008. He knocked off an early Nick Saban Alabama team in the Sugar Bowl and I think finished ranked 2nd in the final poll that year. The success that he and Meyer had is part of the reason Utah made it into a P5 (now P4) conference.
Many people including myself was expecting this to be Whit’s final season at Utah but we all thought it would be because he was going to retire. He changes his mind and decides he still has a few years left in him. Utah had Morgan Scalley as HCIW so they pushed Whit out to make sure Scalley doesn’t leave when he might not even pan out. If this happened last year, it would make more sense as maybe they thought he was washed but they had a great season this year.
Whit got extremely lucky that Michigan was available and was able to get another job so quickly. Not only is it a better job but it is one of the best jobs in the country. Have we ever seen anything like this before. Fitzgerald did arguably get an upgrade from Northwestern to Michigan State but that was a few years after he was let go from NW. I am looking for a coach who didn’t voluntarily leave their school and get a better job almost immediately. I guess this could have happened to James Franklin too if let’s say LSU landed him instead of Virginia Tech.