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With Rico Beard off for the day, Mike Valenti and David Hull drop a bombshell theory on 97.1 The Ticket: Michigan head coach Kyle Whittingham is actively trying to get himself fired so he can collect his $25 million buyout without forfeiting his retirement package.
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00:00also mix in the following and i don't want you to be offended and i don't want you to think
00:06i'm
00:06doing this for effect or anything i'm telling you legitimately how i feel i am convinced
00:12kyle whittingham is trying to get fired
00:18a hundred percent in my bones would take it to my grave would pass a polygraph he is actively
00:24trying to get you to fire him and you go well how can you say that well it's it's not
00:32just
00:32losing games i'm not saying this guy's going out there and tanking he's never been a highly
00:37involved coach on the sideline the the point i'm making is if i wanted to get fired in a situation
00:43i quickly realized i didn't want to be in and i had 25 million reasons to get fired
00:53well you you show up you disrespect tradition you don't know a damn thing about the rivalries
01:01you say a bunch of stupid stuff on the microphone you say a bunch of stupid stuff at the press
01:08engagement every week you go out and the team looks completely ill prepared because you are
01:14completely ill prepared to coach here you lose to a terrible michigan state team you come out on monday
01:21trying to be don rickles well are we playing for any trophies the last three games then as if you
01:28needed anything else to go wrong in your life you lob a molotov cocktail at dan lanning in oregon
01:35who are lying in wait as 10 point favorites this weekend at outson well it must be nice to have
01:4250
01:42million dollars and buy all your players huh kyle your quarterback is one of the highest paid guys
01:49in the country and while michigan doesn't spend 50 million or 45 million michigan's got plenty of
01:56money to which dan lanning responded well maybe if the school wasn't paying to fire so many coaches
02:02including your bum ass oc maybe you'd have more money for players you don't want to give a troll
02:09oxygen dan lanning is a super troll i'm telling you i believe it in my bones then factor in some
02:19of
02:19the things you hear i tell you a couple of these team meetings didn't go real well want to get
02:25yourself fired alienate your whole team tell them to go to the portal with 25 of the season to go
02:31go
02:32ahead guys in real time i am convinced in my soul he's trying to get fired he didn't want to
02:42be
02:42here he quickly realized he made a mistake and he wants out but he ain't gonna forfeit that retirement
02:49package and how do i know to telltale signs of somebody who doesn't want to be here because i just
02:56got done living it jonathan smith jonathan smith it was a little different his conference dissolved
03:05he wasn't pushed into retirement jonathan smith was a hero at oregon state he was an alum he was
03:11the quarterback of the the fiesta bowl team that that beat notre dame he left because he felt he had
03:18to because he felt like this was a better opportunity and then michigan state lied to him
03:23they didn't deliver on what he was promised from an nil standpoint and quickly you saw he didn't
03:30understand this place and then later on you saw real quick he didn't want to be here he desperately
03:37wanted to go home and michigan state they paid 33 million to accommodate that i am absolutely convinced
03:46absolutely convinced kyle whittingham is trying it's like he's reading a manual how to get fired in
03:53seven easy steps you go to a high a blue blood you make no effort to understand their traditions
04:01you essentially mock said traditions you don't value the ohio state game you bumble your way in the lead
04:08up to the michigan state game you lose said michigan state game you don't want to fire your oc that's
04:16why
04:16in my opinion other people made that happen and then after losing the state well we don't play any
04:25trophies do it i remind you utah paid this man 13 million to retire i think you offered him so
04:36much
04:37money he couldn't say no to it it was monty williams 2.0 this guy is aloof with everybody he's
04:46got
04:46absolutely no connection to his team he's actively alienating his team you can ask anyone around the
04:53program and now i think he's absolutely daring you to fire him that is my opinion if you think that
05:02is
05:03full of it if you think it's off base if you think you think whatever you like you know the
05:08phone number
05:09but i'll give it to you just in case 248-539-9797 but if you agree with me god i
05:16don't mind hearing
05:16from you and i know rico has the day off but my bet still stands with rico i'll book any
05:22action he has
05:23this man's not back next year dead man dead man walking this is done this is done you're already
05:33hearing the rumblings of donors bailing you want to run this back next year go pull up the pre-don
05:40canham big house photos of an empty house against vanderbilt people will not support this this guy
05:49borders on not liking it here openly
05:56tell me i'm wrong david go ahead you're our resident wolverine scumbag what do you got for
06:02everybody tell me i'm wrong i wish i could tell you i was wrong or you were wrong um because
06:09i also saw
06:11certain rumblings or heard certain rumblings coming out regarding some meetings this week
06:15um and i thought it was ridiculous satire i did think it was satire then i you know found out
06:25it
06:25wasn't and couldn't believe what i was was what i was hearing um and then he makes those comments
06:31about dan lanning and it's like dude what are you doing you are at michigan like you got money man
06:38that'd be like the head coach at utep shane waldron being like well it must be nice you can buy
06:4440 million
06:44players sir this is utep that's an acceptable comment it just doesn't make any sense to me
06:50and it does feel based on what you said when you put everything a b c d it does it's
06:57starting to feel
06:57like yeah he wants he's trying to force himself out of here if he leaves on his own he doesn't
07:02get
07:02the money he doesn't get the retirement package you gotta force some things yeah well and unlike your
07:08last coach i don't think he's gonna have an uncontrollable dipstick so you won't be able to get
07:13yourself out of this situation you just paid back 10 million dollars to leave you're gonna have
07:18to pay this cat 25 mil he knows you can't bring him back and you know you can't bring him
07:25back
07:26he's i i think he's actively just trying to make this easier because the things he's doing saying the
07:34way he's acting bro argue it 248-539-9797 so we got the red wing callers got two open lines
07:44if people
07:45want to talk about whittingham or the wings and we'll go all phone calls the rest of the hour it's
07:5097 one
07:50right now let's go all phone callers got two open lines if we have one of them for the anniversary
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