Valenti On Michigan's Hiring Of Kyle Whittingham: "I Think It's A Band-Aid Hire"
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we're going to take a little break here for a minute. |
| 0:02.7 | We've done a couple hours here on the golf comments by Dan Campbell. |
| 0:06.3 | We'll get back into it. |
| 0:07.2 | But I didn't have a chance to talk about Michigan hiring a coach. |
| 0:11.0 | So I can offer you that here and you can do whatever you like with it. |
| 0:15.3 | I think the first thing I want to say to you is nobody knows nothing. |
| 0:20.6 | Like the hires that are celebrated bomb, the hires that are celebrated bomb the hires that are made |
| 0:24.6 | fun of succeed so i i hearken since riko's not here remember everybody was touching their ball bag |
| 0:32.7 | about ms u hiring jonathan smith in that cycle and here i was hesitant and a little skeptical and I brought up my concerns. |
| 0:41.0 | And now I ended up being right. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay, who cares? |
| 0:44.4 | The point is people made fun of Michigan State for hiring Mark Dantonio, who was 17 and 16 out of Cincinnati. |
| 0:50.9 | And he went on to be the greatest coach in the school's history. |
| 0:53.5 | You have to use that as a backdrop. |
| 0:56.0 | All I can offer you about Kyle Whittingham are the things I know. |
| 1:00.6 | So with that as the backdrop, let me say this. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm not going to do what a lot of the bought and paid for folks who cover this school are going to do. |
| 1:12.0 | No, your fifth choice wasn't the perfect hire. |
| 1:15.1 | Your sixth choice who you didn't even have on a hotboard isn't the one that made the most |
| 1:20.1 | sense all along. |
| 1:21.1 | We're not going to play that game. |
| 1:22.7 | Okay. |
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