Michigan can give all the reasons it wants for its December hiring of ex-Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, but one has stuck in the public’s mind: his complete public allergy to B.S., namely the off-field drama that characterized Wolverines football at times under coach Jim Harbaugh and most of the time under coach Sherrone Moore.
Whittingham has presented himself as the coaching equivalent of a reform candidate in an election, and on Thursday at Big Ten media days he went further than ever before in that regard. Discussing Ohio State, Whittingham made a point to distance himself from the politics of annihilation that have characterized the rivalry in recent years.
