My name is Steve. Iowan by birth, Michigan fan by the grace of Bo. Host of Michigan Podcast. Connor Stalions is a living legend. Oh well, we won the natty.
Go get a major AD who’s been successful and has made major decisions like Rob Mullins at Oregon. Have him bring in Will Stein, who he knows well from their days at Oregon, as the head coach. Convince Jay Hill to stay as DC.
You’re welcome.
Harding's unit is the worst on the team, so hard to see how it gets better with him having less time to coach it because he's OC now.
3 more weeks and we can all move on.
There will not be any “major overhauls” to the offense under Jim Harding, who does not have extensive play calling experience, per Whittingham. Whitt will not get more involved on offense, and assistant OL coach Mike Lynch will have a bigger role coaching the line.
Kyle Whittingham on keeping Michigan motivated for its last 3 games:
"It's my job as a coach to rally them back up and get them ready to compete for these last three games. ... I don't know, are there any more trophies in these last three games? I don't think there's any more trophies. Anyway..."
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Two thoughts on meaning of Beck firing:
1) I can’t remember last time Michigan made a major move and the entire (and outstanding) Michigan media market got scooped. Wonder if that is indicative of power at Michigan now being wielded outside traditional circles?
2) Timing means one of two things pertaining to Whittingham. Either he was told he had to do this to save his job for next year by whomever that power now is, or he was told he had to do this now to have a chance at another year by how team responds down the stretch.
If Beck had been fired a few weeks ago, maybe that saves Whittingham. But he wasn’t until season was totally shot, and Whittingham just said last night nothing would happen until end of the season. Which obviously implies Whittingham is now reacting to pressure on him.
I didn’t complain about Kelvin Sheppard again. Overall, today was the kind of workmanlike road win after two emotional home division wins in a row you see from real contending teams.
Kyle Whittingham was hired to right the ship. Instead, Michigan's offense is an unmitigated disaster, and he refuses to hold Jason Beck accountable.
9 games in, it's clear Michigan made the wrong hire.
Fire Kyle Whittingham. Now.
My latest column: 👇https://t.co/cxQthrJBIL
Answering a question about why he has confidence in the offense being fixed, Michigan head coach Kyle Whittingham says that they have a good 2027 recruiting class coming in and the transfer portal season upcoming.