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University of Utah comment arry, what's going on with KYLEA. Winningham,
what's going on with Morgan Scalley. Finally, Kyle addressed the media.
What are some of the nuggets that were obtained from
that media availability yesterday. Will Kyle continue to coach or
will he step into his assistance to the Presidents and
Associate Athletic Director role and make three point four to
five million a year for the next couple of years.
Does he want to coach or does he want to
be an AD or an assistant AD. Let's get into
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Welcome in j T wisterstill of lockdown utes, JT. How
you live it?
Speaker 1: Doing well? Always great to be honest with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Yes, indeed love talking Bob with you.
What what some of the jets? What were some of
the takeaways from the media round up with Kyle, what
do you have yesterday?
Speaker 1: There's a few This toll Suga has been so weird,
even going back to last week, right, I'm stepping down,
and then right after that hits the Athletic reports that
he is interested in coaching. Still, so I'm glad we
finally got the year from Kyle. I know a lot
of people have made something of the fact there wasn't
a press conference to address with stepping down and then
Scaley being officially named the head coach. I didn't make
a ton of that, just because we knew we'd get
media availability with them, and the fact that they're waiting
till after the Bowl game with Scally, I think makes
a lot of sense to me. But I know some
people have talked about that kind of thing as it
came to the Nuggets. I mean, look, he sounds like
a guy who still wants to coach. I would also say,
though at what level and in what capacity? I'm sure
we'll talk about all the Michigan stuff here in a moment.
To me, that makes a lot of sense, right, wanting
to coach at Michigan and that as it's been reported,
and I've heard the same thing, he absolutely does top
five to ten job in the country with the resources
Michigan has. I think it's the top five job in
the countries. I think that's why he's interested in going there.
But what other level of jobs he would take.
Speaker 3: That's why I think it's more like NFL.
Speaker 1: Guys, what he said yesterday, Like you said, I'm a
free agent, I'm in the transfer portal. Listen to him talk.
He says, he with what happened that you saw? So
what does that mean? I'm not entirely sure, JT.
Speaker 2: We have some connection issues. You're kind of hit. It's
like hit and miss a little bit with your with
your connection real quick, Ronald. I don't know if you're
seeing it on your end, but I just wanted to
get you a breast of that. I don't know if
you're in a specific location. But let's, uh, let's see
if we can get him dialed in.
Speaker 1: JT. Is still there, buddy, Yes, yeah, still here?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, so you yeah, continue there, JT. You
were kind of hit and miss there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was just saying this whole thing with Kyle Whittingham, right,
he said, I'm a free agent, I'm in the transferport Now.
He doesn't sound to me like a guy who wants
to retire. Now, is he a guy who wants to
take any college coaching job. I don't think so. I
think he's a guy whould love to go to Michigan,
as has been reported. I think there's NFL jobs that
would appeal to him because I think he'd be much
more inclined to the lifestyle of the NFL calendar than
just the average college coaching job. Now, Michigan's chance to
win a national championship me would appeal to him. But
throughout this whole process, right, you know, he even says
I'm a peace with stepping down. He talks about how
we wanted to come back this year and not go
out last year. So this has been a really interesting saga.
But he doesn't sound like he's at peace with the decision.
But it's been strange how we got here.
Speaker 2: It truly has been awkward.
Speaker 1: In strange.
Speaker 2: Look, this is a guy that it's obvious he still
wants to coach. Will he take a G six job,
Will he only take a PEE four job? Will he
take an assistant head coach defensive coordinating job? Does he
want to look to the NFL? Are all options on
the table.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't see G six job.
I see NFL like advisor more than coach. I'd say,
I think the Michigan job is just different. The Michigan job,
like you said, that's the chance to win a national championship.
That's something that gets you reinvigorated, right those other jobs,
like Kyle Whittingham has already accomplished everything a G six
job could possibly achieve, with the maybe exception of making
the playoffs. But with that, he'd be better off at
a Utah just like that at a Michigan anyways. Right, So,
and I also believe this, like there's a reason this
whole thing now Kyle Whittingham and an interest in coming
back in and everything. He's a guy who hasn't made
at Utah, and I and as people in place to
help him with the things that it takes to run
a college football program. I think if it's Michigan, right,
he's okay with I have to do more. I don't
get the sense that he'd want to go to just
any college job, especially one that doesn't give him the
resources to win at the highest level. And now it's oh,
you have to do more at this place and you
don't have a chance of a good opportunity to win
as you did even at Utah. To me, this is
a guy who's still going to retire from coaching, whether
it's completely or just like we said, maybe he continues
in that NFL assistant type of role. I don't think
Whittingham wants to be in May, just whatever month you
pick in the off season, going into the office each
and every single day. That's where we talked about. At Utah,
he had things in place and people that could help
him do that. If he goes through a lot of
these other jobs, he has to do all of that
and do more than he was doing at Utah. To me,
he is still a guy that's getting closer to retirement,
and I think it's Michigan job for him, or NFL
administrative assistant or something like that. I do not see
him being a G six coach, But there appears to
still be a passion to stay in the world of football.
But does that mean he will do whatever it takes
a stay in football. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's any enmity between Kyle Harlan the
presidency there at the you that would lead him to say,
you know, I don't want this, this sweetheart deal you've
given me for the next two years at three point
four to five million. I'm gonna go code somewhere else.
I'm gonna win. I'm gonna show you guys that with
you know, with support, with resources, that I can win
at the highest levels in college football.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's that's a really tough one, right because there's
been a lot of speculation already on that relationship. Obviously,
Morgan already did put something out by just congratulating with
on their career, and those guys have been together so long.
I gotta believe that relationship is still pretty strong. I'll
also say I think it's very fair to wonder if
Kyle Whittingham came back to Utah for another year, would
Morgan Sally have come back too, Not because of any animosity,
because Morgan Scalley, I do believe had outside interest. This
has been one of the top defensive coordinators in the
country for years, and when you have the level of
success that Utah has had as a P four team,
usually your coordinators eventually get an opportunity to be a
head coach or an elite coordinator. Someone else Morgan's was
in the past, He's passed Ben a good soldier, knowing
he'd be the head coach in waiting. I think last
year it was like, all right, let's do one more
year of this. It's reported it was supposed to be
his final year last year, but he wanted to come
back go out on a higher doubt, which I mean,
he didn't he make a bowl game last year? How
crazy was that? Right? Still when it's a built like
that was forever ago with what the Utah team was
able to achieve this past season.
Speaker 3: So Morgan was a good soldier then.
Speaker 1: I do think Morgan felt like it was his time
to face something. It just seems like Morgan and Kyle
it was going to be one or the other in
terms of who was the moving forward at Utah. I
have just had a hard time believing that Morgan's sally
was going to be down to be the Utah defensive
coordinator once and instead of going and chasing either a
head coach opportunity or being a higher paid coordinator, because
I do think some of the top jobs in the
country would have wanted him for all that he's accomplished.
So cover I feel like the relationship is still good there,
but I think it's it's understandable the question how did
this all play out? Because it has been such a
weird trajectory, I'm curious what will come out. And you know,
obviously Morgan and Kyle they're still in the same building together,
So I feel like these are good overall.
Speaker 3: But I think there's.
Speaker 1: Definitely a chance that Kyle wanted to come back to
one more years. There's also a chance.
Speaker 3: That he was content to shut down and run off
into the sunset and retirement. And as he was running
off of the sunset out of the court, he noticed
the whole situation going on at Michigan and one of
the top five jobs.
Speaker 1: In the country is open. Remember this is the winningham turned.
Speaker 3: Down the opportunity to go to Tennessee long ago.
Speaker 1: When you turn down Tennessee and stay a Utah, you're
turning down a chance to win a national championship. Now,
obviously you're also keeping yourself in a more safe job.
So Kyle still made a good choice. But now he's
got a chance to go to Michigan and really compete
for a national title. And I think that a feels
to him a lot. But yeah, I think it's fair
to wonder how that relationship is as it relates to
cause administrative assistance at this moment. Honey shocked if that
was what he was doing next year.
Speaker 3: He seems like a football coach. He talks about the
juice is still.
Speaker 1: There and I expect him to involve on the football
field in some capacity.
Speaker 2: J T Wistersil, JT appreciate you hopping on great insight,
great knowledge, best way to support you. What you do,
how you do it for all of our listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys can check me out of that lockedown
youth on YouTube. I'm pax or at JT WISTERSIL as well.
Appreciate the time, Ben.
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