Why would an OC who has designed a fast-paced offense want to coach under Whitt?

There is a LOT that would have to play out of what you’re saying is true.

For starters, that would tell me that Whitt and Scalley are not in the same page and that Scalley would have to have been having side conversations behind Whitts back.

Possible, by highly unlikely.

That would also suggest that Whitt is in fact not allowing Scalley to be driving this situation and hire as suggested and NEEDED.

I can believe this honestly.

That also excludes the amount of money and opportunity coaching in the SEC would provide that maybe we can’t.

Oklahoma is still a much bigger name and opportunity, despite what we all may think.

Whoever they hire just needs to improve QB play lol it shouldn’t be that hard after what we’ve witnessed the last 2 years. They also need to act quickly due to signing day coming up…so some urgency would be nice.

There is zero chance an uptempo OC would want to coach with Whitt.

If Whitt is our HC, it doesn’t matter who we hire as OC. We know what our offense will look like.

My assumption with no evidence other than what usually happens…Arbuckle used Utah to leverage Oklahoma for more money.

The reason why Ficklin committed so quickly, is because he was assured that Marion was on his way, Utah is just keeping it quite.

Proud, I heard the same thing. Not sure if it’s true, but if it is true, it’s very disheartening.

I see a lot of people commenting about money, opportunity, etc…lest we forget, in Andy Ludwig Utah had the second highest paid offensive coordinator in the nation, making what some OCs in the SEC and B1G make look like chump change. Money is not the issue here. Guaranteed that if Utah wanted Arbuckle and Arbuckle wanted Utah, that deal would have been made and Utah could have outbid Oklahoma.

The timing on the OC announcement is usually an indicator. Arbuckle’s team didn’t have anything to play for this week and he wasn’t go to stay for a bowl. Same with Kittley (Texas Tech) going to FAU or Malzahn to FSU.

That would indicate one of two things: 1) Utah’s OC hire is at a G5 playing a CCG this weekend (Vegas, Boise, Tulane, Army, Western Kentucky, Jax State, Miami of Ohio, Ohio, Marshall, Louisiana Lafayette), or 2) Whitt truly hasn’t made a decision as to his future yet and that needs to be made before the OC decision

Our “insider” network seems to think the deal is done so I’m leaning towards option 1 and that the delay is a courtesy to teams that have something to play for right now. And I would assume that recruits know and have been asked to keep quiet so that they still commit tomorrow

I can understand why an up and coming OC in their right mind is not going to risk their career coaching under KW while he’s day to day on retirement plan trying to go out with a feel good season. KW’s track record with OCs spanning 20 years has to be a factor. The only OC basically keeping KW with a winning P12 record walked out the door mid-season. Seems more plausible now Ludwig left on his own, but who knows. Take away Ludwig’s 3 years good in the P12, minus Covid, Utah is 41-49 in 10 seasons with a swinging door of OCs and weird Co-OCs back to the MWC days. Proud’s post makes sense to me. I would argue the OU job is more volatile than Utah regardless of the $. Brent Venable is on a very hot seat at OU. Venable’s OU conference record is 10-12, 2-6 first year in the SEC. Interesting times ahead for Utah football. Go Utes!

The biggest problem with Whittingham in regards to offense was that he did not believe the offensive woes were his fault. How do we know he didn’t believe the mistakes were his fault you say? Because he has fired 8 offensive coordinators in his tenure, but the offense basically looked the same no matter which OC came in. This indicates that there was no penitence nor any “seeing the light” from Whittingham. Unless he goes, it will not change and it will be very difficult to attract any offensive coaches or players to the team.

Proud, you’re a better man than to post drivel in this way.

Fact is he interviewed knowing the situation and was seriously contemplating it. OU is closer to home, gives him a higher profile, same salary and additional incentive cash. But let’s not let facts stand in our narratives way.