Kyle Whittingham wasn’t sure if he was ever going to coach again once he stepped down at Utah. After over two decades in one place, things moved pretty quickly to get Whittingham into Ann Arbor to be the new coach of Michigan.
It’s everything to Whittingham. The Wolverines came calling to clean up the mess following the Sherrone Moore scandal. Whittingham was certainly the right choice in that department and there’s been total buy-in to his culture. Now, he starts anew in the Big Ten on a five-year contract.
“I stepped down and wasn’t sure if there was going to be more to the career or not,” Whittingham said on Sirius XM. “I was perfectly content with just going skiing and riding my motorcycle and playing golf and all that stuff, being with grandkids. And so I wasn’t sitting there stewing over anything. We had had a good run at Utah. The time was right to step down and move on … At that time, I was good with it. Very shortly after I stepped down, the job came open here, my agent got a hold of me, said, ‘Hey, is there interest?’ And I said, ‘You bet.’…