Brent Rollins (5:55)
So yeah, chill and have nothing. Meanwhile. That was Brent Rollins, by the way. Remember on three, he's got the on three lid on because there's only one reason, by the way, he's wearing that so other people can make fun of him too. It's because he hasn't shaved. Because you can see the face too. He hasn't shaved that as well. Usually extremely clean shaving on three and pff. But I think the, the biggest news that, that we all got to. To feel over the holidays wasn't really the bowl games. It was the winningest program in college football history, which is Michigan, if you didn't know. Hiring a winner, that's exactly what they did. They hired a real coach. Coach with history, with pedigree. That's one for a long time. He's a first class dude who Ran a first class program that was built on toughness, discipline, development for 21 plus years. Like, I don't understand how anybody in this world could have something negative about that Michigan hire. Now listen, Ohio State fans, I get it. Like, I understand that completely. And that's your job is to be a rival and to write how it's a horrible hire and this shouldn't happen. I don't know that you could do much better than Whittingham now. I don't understand why he's on the market. There's a lot that goes into that story and if you've read in the backgrounds, it really feels like there was a coaching waiting situation with Scali, who's a great coach. And it felt like Whittingham kind of was pushed out. He was forced out in some way, shape or form and made it very clear in his, when he, when he retired and stepped down, he was like, I, you know, I just, I feel like I don't want to stay too long. I don't want to stay too long. I don't want to stay too long. He said that several times and you could feel there was some pressure. Didn't say he was going off into the sunset. Felt like he had some more ball left. Now he leaves and he goes to a program that the past coach was. The past coach before. The last coach was Jim Harbaugh who left under a suspension under NCAA violations. The last coach now just recently, Sharon Moore, left under even worse circumstances and still had the NCAA stuff along with it and suspensions along the way with him. And so I'm Ward Manual and I'm making a decision at the University of Michigan, one of the most, one of the proudest programs in all of college football. And I got to go find a guy. I think he made a cognizant choice to say I'm going to find a guy that's a first class dude, that's ran an organization that has a lot of respect, that does it the right way to check, check, check. Like it doesn't get any more checks than getting Kyle Whittingham. Like unbelievable job by Ward Manual and company. I don't know why Utah let him go. I think a lot of people don't understand that. We've been talking about Kyle Whittingham for years for exactly for what he's done to being one of the best coaches from special teams to toughness to defense, all that stuff. He's been at Utah. He hasn't had resources like he's going to have With Michigan, he hasn't had players like he was going to. Like he's going to have at Michigan. He. There's a lot of great coaches. Bill Snyder' one of them. Like Kansas State. He's one of the best coaches that I've ever watched coach the game of football. Had a chance to go to LSU from Kansas State. Kansas State didn't go. If he went, he would have won national championships. Like, he would have been this level of a coach. He would have been perceived across the board at an even higher level. Kyle Winningham is one of those guys. He's absolutely one of those guys. So I don't know how you could do much better. One concern, new age college football. He's 66. Like, if, if you want to put that in there, I, I'm. That's the only thing that I'll really listen to when it comes to that standpoint. But a guy that understands how to coach the game, how to develop, how to be tough, how to be physical. I'm super excited to see him with a program and a brand like Michigan. Like, he's. I think he's going to do more than, more than well. And, and think about this now. The Big Ten, you had Kyle Whittingham, who's a great coach. You had Matt Campbell, who's a great coach, you had you add Pat Fitzgerald, who's been a great coach. All three of those coaches have one thing in common now. Two. Two at the higher level. Like, I, I think Campbell and Whittingham is up here. Fitzgerald's a little bit below them. They've won and been great football coaches. At destinations that was harder to win. They're going and they're getting more resources, more talent, a bigger brand to go with them. That becomes an easier proposition. It's a lot harder to win at Utah, bro. That's a harder place to win at, man. Like Urban Meyer did it. Kyle Whittingham sustained it for a long period of time. Elite coach, really, really good coach. I don't know how you could be disappointed if you're Michigan. Penn State's coaching thing took a while. Get it took a long time. Like the first to fire, the last to hire. It felt like you got a great coach in Matt Campbell. Guess what? Kyle Whittingham, Michigan. It was kind of weird. You were late to the party, got a great coach. That's all that matters. It does. Nothing else matters. If I'm these programs, I'm excited about where I'm at. Like, no part of me is disappointed with the coach I got like, can you be disappointed with the Sharon Moore, how it ended? Absolutely. Can you be disappointed if you're Penn State and like kind of the amount of time it took and where it winded and turned to? Sure. But you got a great coach. That's all that matters in the end. So you should be happy if you're those two programs. Mr. Britt Rollins, what you got to say, brother?