Because Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni are fools, they believed the coaching carousel for 2025 to be largely complete. Then Sherrone Moore was fired for cause and arrested, and the Wolverines spent about two weeks rumoredly attached to several candidates before hiring Kyle Whittingham. With the dust settled (for now), we sat down to discuss how Utah-lifer Whittingham even became available, what expectations look like for his tenure, and whether a larger accounting for the problems inside the athletic department at Michigan will happen.

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