Kyle Whittingham took Michigan sight unseen — to turn Sherrone Moore mess into his next great win

ANN ARBOR, MI — It doesn’t make sense, none of it. Not the new job halfway across the continent. Not the strange fit.

Not leaving behind decades of the carefully orchestrated at Utah for the sheer unknown of it all at Michigan . Until you understand who you’re dealing with . “I’d have been pissed off at myself down the road had I not taken the job,” Kyle Whittingham says.

Because no matter how good Whittingham had it for two-plus decades of doing more with less at Utah, he needed this Michigan job. Needed to finally see, beyond any measure of doubt, what would happen when less became more. When everything he possibly could want or need was a phone call or conversation away.

When competing in the best conference in college football — one that has grown exponentially more difficult to navigate beyond rival Ohio State — with all the pressure and expectations that come with it, meant challenging himself like never before. What happens when a man who has pushed himself to the limit his entire life — from competing with the elite of college football despite a financial hand behind your back, to becoming an Expert Level 7 skier, to his daily, 90-minute workout regimen that currently sits at 6,500-plus days and counting — is given everything he needs to push it one step further? He takes a job sight unseen.