Utah football has a sequence strategy in position after existing head trainer Kyle Whittingham retires. Protective planner Morgan Scalley will certainly take control of the Utes program when Willingham carries on, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Neither Whittingham, 64, neither the college has actually established a main retired life day. The trainer agreed to a contract extension in 2022 that takes him via the 2027 period. However placing Scalley in position ought to enable a less complicated change and preserve the success Whittingham has actually developed throughout his 19 periods at Utah.
Scalley’s existing agreement has language in it that requires him to take control of as head trainer when Whittingham actions down, according to Thamel. The setup was set last November.
Resources: Utah is calling protective planner Morgan Scalley as the follower to long time trainer Kyle Whittingham. Scalley will certainly make a minimum of $5 million annually as head trainer when he rises, per his most recent agreement. There’s no collection schedule for Whittingham to leave. pic.twitter.com/aVZZRiYI8L
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) July 1, 2024
If Scalley were to take the work at the end of the 2024 period, his income would certainly start at $5 million. That will certainly boost by $100,000 in each succeeding year, leading up to a feasible $5.4 million beginning income if Scalley takes control of in 2028.
Utah is signing up with the Huge 12 after the dissolution of the Pac-12 and is deemed the favored to win the seminar this period. Last period, the Utes completed 8– 5 general and connected for 4th in the Pac-12 at 5– 4. Utah shed to Northwestern in the Las Las Vega Dish, 14– 7, and were not placed in the last AP Top 25 survey. Scalley’s protection completed No. 13 in the nation in complete protection.
Right here’s the main stipulation in Morgan Scalley’s agreement assigning him as the trainer in waiting.
Scalley’s income when Whitt reveals:
Today – 1/15/25: $5M
1/16/25 – 1/15/26: $5.1 M
1/16/26 – 1/15/27: $5.2 M
1/16/27 – 1/15/28: $5.3 M
After 1/16/28: $5.4 M pic.twitter.com/CIKwiunX13— Josh Furlong (@JFurKSL) July 1, 2024
Scalley was a protective back with the Utes from 2001-04. As an elderly, he gained All-American honors and was called Hill West co-defensive gamer of the year in 2004. He started his mentoring occupation as a management aide in 2007, rising from graduate aide to securities trainer, after that hiring planner and unique groups. He was called protective planner in 2016 after John Pease retired.
” Undoubtedly, this is a program that’s constantly implied the globe to me,”Scalley told Thamel “I played right here, matured mosting likely to video games right here. I like this program and where it’s headed, and I have a great deal of regard for the instructors that have actually made it what is.”
This is the 2nd time Scalley has actually been called as Whittingham’s follower by sports supervisor Mark Harlan. Nevertheless, Utah withdrawed that strategy in 2020 and minimized his income after Scalley was put on hold when a sms message he sent out in 2013 consisting of a racial slur was disclosed on social media sites.