Kyle Whittingham Steps Down

[NUMBERICA]

This is pretty stunning (the timing, at least). Someone help me stop catastrophizing, cuz this looks pretty devastating to me.

Update: I guess Whit has been on record wanting to end after one more good season. Sounds like Morgan Scalley has it all-but sewn-up.

 

[LogGrad98]

Huh?

 

[fishonjazz]

I saw this coming from a mile away.
In fact, he was gone last year if last season didn't go so bad. He wanted to go out on a high note.
Also, I think this is actually a good thing for Utah. The boosters wanted whitt gone and everyone (players included) love Scalley.
Scalley has been patiently waiting for the job for years and I hear that he was gonna bounce if whitt came back for another year.

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[fishonjazz]

Whittingham was a legend. For most of his tenure I wished he was BYU's coach (until we got Kalani. He might be my favorite coach in any sport of all time). He was a great coach. 177 wins iirc. Which makes Lavells 250 wins seem crazy. But that is obviously mostly due to longevity since Whitt and Lavell are very similar in wins per season. (whitt is like 8.6 wins per season and Lavell is like 8.8 wins per season)

Having said all that, im so happy he is gone. I had no hate towards Ron Mcbride. Then Urban came along and made the rivalry way more toxic. Whitt came after and followed in Urbans footsteps and continued to make the rivalry toxic.
Hopefully Scalley will be different and the temperature can come down a bit in regards to the rivalry. I know Kalani wont ever bad mouth Utah. Hopefully Scalley wont bad mouth BYU.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

I saw this coming from a mile away.
In fact, he was gone last year if last season didn't go so bad. He wanted to go out on a high note.
Also, I think this is actually a good thing for Utah. The boosters wanted whitt gone and everyone (players included) love Scalley.
Scalley has been patiently waiting for the job for years and I hear that he was gonna bounce if whitt came back for another year.

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Was about to post something similar. Since I don't live in Utah I don't pay too close attention, but this was not surprising at all. I assumed it was happening, and had been set up for a few years.