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Sometimes making $500,000 a year with a good routine is enough for people. And that’s great for us.

Look at the Philadelphia Eagles. They easily have the best OL coach in the NFL. Been with the Eagles for 12 years. Sometimes great money doing something you love is great.

Harding was one of our many, many OC’s. I wonder if he didn’t like it. Hell, I’d be happy with $500,000 a year.

[Utah]

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.

[Utah]

Because there is no criteria anymore. No SOS, no this or that. It’s just “look at the board and do what the keyboard warriors would tell you to do.”

It also says another thing: The committee views the MWC and the Big 12 as equals. They see the strength of conference as:

#1 – SEC/Big 10
Gap
#3 – ACC
Big gap
Everyone else.

This is such a s**tty conference.

[Utah]

God damn!!!

lol.

[Utah]

As would Whitt. As would 99% of people. Be real man.

[Utah]

No…but yes.

If I’m Whitt and I’m owed 20 million I tell Utah to pound sand, I’m not retiring.

Now, if Utah comes to Whitt and says, “Hey. Here’s 12 million. Wanna retire?” Then the negotiation of the buyout begins.

Whitt technically “retires” but he didn’t really retire. He was asked politely (and with a big check) to retire.

[Utah]

This is tough. I get why Whitt doesn’t change. He makes millions of dollars a year, he gets to live around his family, etc, etc, etc.

To make a drastic change on the offensive side of the ball…it’s risky. Sure, you can win a big time bowl game, maybe even a national championship. BUT, if you lose more…well, this is a fickle job and fans and boosters will turn on you quick (and they should. Get out of here with this “he’s earned the right to leave on his own terms…” Bulls**t. He’s made tens of millions. As long as you ask boosters and fans to pay more and more and more every year, they have every right to turn quickly on him. This isn’t the 1980’s where the coach is making a teacher’s salary and does it for the love of the game. If Whitt is going to take that much money, then has earned all the praise and criticism that comes with it and it’s not fair to let him “leave on his own terms” and make fans watch the team get worse and worse while charging the fans more and more for the privilege.)

Back to the topic:

Whitt knows that he can win 8+ games a year with his style. He probably won’t win it all, but he will stay employed and keep cashing checks. To change the offense is to risk it all. He loses his job, he has to move to the south or the northeast and take over a new program, away from kids, etc, etc, etc.

I get why he doesn’t want to do that.

And I get that moving on from him is risky. There is a good…hell a great chance that Scalley is worse than Whitt.

But why not try? Why be happy with a team ranked 20-35 at the end of the year? Why not try to be better?

[Utah]

I think everyone knows that Troy Taylor is a HC in spite of Whitt, not because of Whitt.

[Utah]

Oklahoma feels like the next Nebraska. Great history, top dog of their small, s**tty conference, leave for a new conference and can’t get back to the top.

If you’re a recruit, and Oklahoma and Nebraska offer you, why would you go there over Ohio State, Michigan, Penn St, Alabama, Texas, A&M, Auburn, LSU, etc?

[Utah]

Scalley is Utah whipped. He isn’t going anywhere. He has the job when Whitt leaves, whenever that is.

He’s probably being paid as much as a lot of head coaches.

And he knows if he leaves, he may never come back. If he leaves, it opens the door to Jay Hill and everyone else.

Scalley ain’t going anywhere. And if he does, Utah will be just fine.

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