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The Valenti Show

How Was Warde Manuel Allowed To Make This Hire?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Rico is perplexed that current Michigan AD, Warde Manuel, was able to make the new head football coach hire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So if you missed any part of the show, use the Odyssey Rewind.

0:03.4

We talked a lot about the Detroit Lions and whether you still trust the direction of this franchise of where they're going and what they have to do in the off season to get back to being a Super Bowl contending team.

0:14.4

And the Michigan news just broke as Kyle Whittingham has accepted the job and he signed a five-year deal to be the next head coach at the University of Michigan.

0:23.7

It's funny because in the break, I hit David with a trivia question of, you know,

0:28.6

when the last time that Michigan, Michigan State both had brand new coaches in the game because the rule is

0:34.1

who's ever the newest coach, the rookie coach never wins the games. And it goes back to 1995, Nick Sabin, Lloyd Carr. Both were in that game. Nick Saban won that game. Lloyd Carr lost. And then I told David, that means that, you know what, state's going to win this year because our coach has been there longer a month hey it's a month of work before a Kyle winning him technically is not wrong he

1:01.5

has been there long it counts couple texts back to the phone lines give me a couple of days

1:08.7

this might be a real good comparison here. We're talking about the

1:11.6

solid coach that Kyle Whittingham is. Somebody says, Kyle Winningham is John B-Line. B-Line is

1:17.8

Whittingham. That is from Kyle. If it works out, if it works out, he's John B-Line, who a lot

1:25.1

of people were like, okay, this is the best that we can do.

1:29.4

They were not excited about the hire. I was not either.

1:31.5

And then when he left, it was like, wow, he left and he left us high and dry.

1:35.8

So if it works out, he's B-line. If it doesn't work out, he's Rich Rod.

1:42.8

He's that outsider. He doesn't, he speaks funny, that type of thing. He's that outsider.

1:47.3

He doesn't, he speaks funny, that type of thing.

1:53.3

He doesn't know Michigan football and we're tough and we don't do this and we don't do that.

1:54.3

Yeah.

1:55.6

So we'll see.

1:59.9

But right now, he's got a low bar to clear.

2:00.8

Okay?

2:03.6

Just don't go on your phone and don't.

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