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The Valenti Show

Mike Takes Your Michigan/Kyle Whittingham Calls

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Valenti speaks to the people in response to his thoughts on Michigan's hiring of Kyle Whittingham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Straight to the people, we'll get to the Lions at five o'clock. Just a little Kyle Whittingham discussion. I think there's good. I think there's some red flags. Again, considering the position you're in, it's fine enough. But it's a weird thing. And again, I think he's done comprehensively. I mean, I don't want to overshoot the moon here, but he's been one of the 10 or 12 best coaches in football the last decade. The problem is he's leaving where he did it, and Michigan's a very different place. So I've given you the good, the bad. You guys tell me what you think. We'll go to Adam 97. Adam, what's going on? Hey, I think that you've got a lot of things wrong, brother.

0:40.3

Okay.

0:42.1

Well, first of all, Jared Doff is the quarterback of the future.

0:47.5

He gets his contract renewed.

0:50.4

And I think that Willingham is going to be the best man that's been in the University of Michigan

0:57.1

in probably 10 years.

1:00.6

So you think he'll be better than Jim Harbaugh?

1:04.6

I want to say he'll be better than Jim Harbaugh.

1:07.3

But Jim Harbaugh won a national championship.

1:15.3

And he, Winniham is more of a, by the piece, his kind of coach, man, so he'll be fine, and Jared Garth will be fine, too, man.

1:20.7

We've got to get him re-up, and we got to get some guys off our roster that we don't need

1:25.8

on our roster, and we need to get some offensive linemen, like you said before. I agree with most of the things you said. Okay. All right, Adam. That sounds great. Adam, I don't know what we're – you might be listening to a different show. And second of all, like, if you think Whittingham's the best guy you're going to have in a decade, say it with your chest.

1:46.4

But like, then I go, okay, so he's better than Harbaugh, and you're like, ah, bah, blah, blah, blah. Let's just have a do-over, shall we? Let's just, we'll try this again. We're going to go to Chris and see if we can get more coherent thoughts. Hello, Chris. Hey, Mike, Mike, I think you've got a lot of things right, brother.

2:02.9

And I don't even agree with you most of the time. coherent thoughts. Hello, Chris. Hey, Mike. Mike, I think you've got a lot of things right, brother.

2:03.0

And I don't even agree with you most of the time. Okay, we'll start there. Yeah, it's almost

2:09.8

like I was telling my wife, you're reading all the text messages. I was saying all my buddies

2:13.5

when they announced the new coach,

2:17.8

Whittingham.

2:18.8

Hey, great guy, great history, but the dude's 67 years old.

2:23.2

I just see us doing this all over again in two to three years.

2:27.3

And it's just perplexing to me.

2:31.2

I hope I'm wrong, and I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, but it puzzles me.

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