Michigan's Kyle Whittingham Gamble & One-and-Done Possibility

Just on the playoff thing, what is interesting? I sound like I love the... The problem is I don't love the 2014 playoff. I guess I'm just trying to be like an optimist. It is good for coaching. Both of these... But people would say, oh, come on, Michigan will never miss the playoff again. Penn State will never miss the playoff again. 100% both of these teams would be in danger of missing a 2024 playoff this year. Like, and Mike, by the way, like we might sit down, do end of season rankings, and both of these teams miss the 2014 playoff. But I think if you are Michigan, it is a lot easier to say like Penn State made a decision to get rid of James Franklin because they felt he was no longer good enough for their program and they thought that Matt Campbell would be the answer you can't bail on that in one year like at the end of the day Fickell might finally turn this thing around for Wisconsin they gave him they gave him a while which I think you should but I I really don't think it's an issue to give a guy like Luke Fickell you got out of Cincinnati a while okay we might turn this thing around if you're Michigan you weren't trying to fire your head coach a lot of things happened you had no you had no choice you did the best you could in bringing in Whittingham but it has been exclusively bad and if we look back guys all of the selling points on Kyle Whittingham really were well he's not Sherrone Moore like the people who believed in Michigan's take wasn't even we love Kyle it's just Sherrone was that bad not for all these other you know focus and all this other stuff I don't think moving off Whittingham is an overreaction it's probably Michigan being honest that this isn't who they were supposed to end up with right not to mention the AD who hired him is no longer the AD so a new AD is going to want to bring in his own person to begin with i just don't understand how the Michigan program settled on Whittingham because he was successful at Utah it's fine he's not successful in the Big Ten and he's not successful and he's older and he's not a Michigan guy they were so adamant that he wasn't Sherrone Moore and he wasn't Harbaugh and he wasn't a Michigan guy well you know what Michigan guys work at Michigan it works they win national titles when they have Michigan guys i understand they wanted to get away from Michigan that's not the way to do it to go get Kyle Whittingham i didn't like the hire from the beginning