Whittingham is basically a great value version of Harbaugh but without the NFL pedigree. The scUM people acting like this is some landscape changing hire are comically delusional.
Guy has averaged 4 losses a season at Utah. I know I know "but the resources!!!". If any 8-4ish type coach of a smaller program was a garutneed success if you gave them the keys to a bigger program they'd all be highly coveted every year, which isn't the case.
He's a good coach but he's not moving the needle at a bigger program in a higher level conference.
Michigan is basically going to be Utah Midwest from the looks of how he's gonna form his staff. Which means 7-9 wins usually with maybe a 10 win season here and there if things fall right.
His resume is there to see, plain as day. He runs a very Urbanesque spread style offense, which was the shit back in the day, but the game passed Urban by.
They should be very concerned about Whittingham pretty much being solitarily isolated in his coaching career to Utah and Idaho.
He has pretty much no in roads within the B1G, the midwest or the south. The Samoans already love BYU, USC and Ore. They don't need to go the Ann Arbor to play.
DBFIA are super reaching with what he brings to the table.
He will do a fine job and win the games he should, but beating the elite B1G programs on their schedule may be a stretch.
We shall see. Seems like a solid person, but the jury is out on whether he performs well.
What he does certainly bring is a good moral forbearance which is what they need now.
