Kyle Whittingham not changing coordinators on Michigan staff: 'I don't think it's time to panic'

A slew of coordinators are being axed around college football, but not at Michigan according to head coach Kyle Whittingham. Despite the offense being stuck in the mud all season, Whittingham said there’s no been no discussions of that type of change, particularly with OC Jason Beck. “Now’s the time of year where, you know, you’re seeing head coaches lose their jobs, play callers being demoted … I don’t think it’s time to panic,” Whittingham said Monday. Michigan is coming off a 13-6 overtime loss to Indiana at home where they scored zero touchdowns and were two-of-four on field goal attempts. $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage In seven games this season, Whittingham’s team averages 20.2 points per game. That’s not quite world beating. In fact, if you take away the 52 points scored against UTEP, Michigan’s six-game average would be 15 points per game. “Everything falls on my shoulders,” Whittingham said postgame Saturday. “So whatever happens in the course of a game is on me. That was not a good football call. That was not a good call at that point in time. “Do I have the ability to overrule? I can overrule anything in the whole program. Like I said, it circles back to me. But it was a very disappointing outcome and a call that I know Jason wishes he had back because it was really damaging.” Kyle Whittingham not panicking, nor making staff changes Whittingham also assessed the job of what Beck this season, whom he brought with him from Utah, has done through seven games. At Utah, the two worked well together each and every season, but this fall has brought on new challenges. “Well, last year, Jason was exceptional,” Whittingham said. “And we had exceptional results, so I’m not going to say that he’s struggling. We’re trying. There’s no lack of work ethic or spending time on it or in the building around the clock. But Jason’s just searching for some rhythm and some continuity — is probably the best word — in the offense. “If you can’t run the football, everything else is going to be really hard — and we could not run the football today. We were not getting any knock back. We weren’t hitting the movement well at all. And they were not heavy boxes. They were just their normal boxes and a lot of split safety looks. And we still just couldn’t make any hay in the run game. And that really is the offensive success is predicated on being able to run the ball. And we could not do it consistently.” Seven games in and the results have been mixed at best. But if you ask fans, it’s not nearly up to standard, especially after the offensive schemes have struggled since the departure of Jim Harbaugh after the 2023 season. “I’ve always judged the season as a whole,” Whittingham said. “I don’t judge the season in segments or game by game. You just look at the whole body of work and, and the whole body of work so far, he’ll be the first to tell you it’s not good enough. We’re going to get better, and there are a lot of areas that really … nowhere you’d say, ‘hey, we’re doing this good.’ We’re not really running the ball as effectively as we want to. We did last week, but the other weeks, we’re not completing the ball at a high enough percentage. We’re not protecting the ball well enough.”