After a long, tenuous last few weeks for the University of Michigan, the football program appears to have found a new head coach to lead them into a new era – Kyle Whittingham.
The 66-year-old Whittingham was named the Wolverines’ 22nd coach in program history on Friday, signing a five-year deal and replacing Sherrone Moore following his termination and subsequent arrest earlier this month.
Whittingham spent the last 21 years at the helm for the University of Utah Utes football program before announcing he was stepping down following the team’s appearance in the Las Vegas Bowl against Nebraska on December 31.
Longtime Utes defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley will take…