00:00Just on the playoff thing, what is interesting?
00:04I sound like I love the – I promise I don't love the 2014 playoff.
00:06I guess I'm just trying to be like an optimist.
00:10It is good for coaches.
00:11Both of these – but people would say, oh, come on,
00:15Michigan will never miss the playoff again.
00:16Penn State will never miss the playoff again.
00:17100% both of these teams would be in danger of missing a 24 field this year.
00:21Like – and might, by the way.
00:24Like we might sit down, do end-of-season rankings,
00:26and both of these teams miss the 2014 playoff.
00:30But I think if you are Michigan, it is a lot easier to say,
00:39like Penn State made a decision to get rid of James Franklin
00:43because they felt he was no longer good enough for their program,
00:46and they thought that Matt Campbell would be the answer.
00:50You can't bail on that in one year.
00:53Like at the end of the day, Fickle might finally turn this thing around
01:00for Wisconsin.
01:01They gave him a while, which I think you should buy.
01:05I really don't think it's an issue to give a guy like Luke Fickle,
01:09you got out of Cincinnati, a while, okay?
01:11And he might turn this thing around.
01:13If you're Michigan, you weren't trying to fire your head coach.
01:22A lot of things happened.
01:23You had no choice.
01:26You did the best you could in bringing in Whittingham,
01:29but it has been exclusively bad.
01:35And if we look back, guys, all of the selling points on Kyle Whittingham
01:40really were, well, he's not Sharon Moore.
01:42Like the people who believed in Michigan's take wasn't even we love Kyle.
01:48It's just Sharon was that bad, not all these other, you know,
01:52focus and all this other stuff.
01:54I don't think moving off Whittingham is an overreaction.
01:59It's probably Michigan being honest that this isn't who they were supposed to
02:05end up with, right?
02:07Not to mention the AD who hired him is no longer the AD.
02:11So a new AD is going to want to bring in his own person to begin with.
02:14I just don't understand how the Michigan program settled on Whittingham
02:19because he was successful at Utah.
02:22It's fine.
02:22He's not successful in the Big Ten, and he's older,
02:25and he's not a Michigan guy.
02:27They were so adamant that he wasn't Sharon Moore, and he wasn't Carball,
02:30and he wasn't a Michigan guy.
02:32Well, you know what?
02:33Michigan guys work at Michigan.
02:35It works.
02:36They win national titles when they have Michigan guys.
02:38I understand they wanted to get away from Michigan.
02:41That's not the way to do it, to go get Kyle Whittingham.
02:43I didn't like the hire from the beginning.
