Problem is, I don't think he makes a bowl. I see Colorado as the only remaining win on the schedule.
Look, there was a lot of sentiment from Ute fans to keep Coach Mac. Firing MacBride was extremely difficult for everybody but it allowed this program to grow because Chris Hill made the right hire in Urban Meyer. Firing Whit does backfire if you hire some chump, but it also helps the program take the next step if you get the right guy.
We will lose to Oregon, and it will be closer than you think. Then we will beat WSU and Colorado, doing what many hoped we would do before the season started. We have the hardest schedule in the country.
We have lost to:
Oregon St 6-3
UCLA 7-2
Arizona 6-3
Arizona St 7-2
USC 7-3
Oregon (next week) 8-1
There is a chance the worst team we lost to was a 9 win team. The PAC-12 is STACKED this year, and they have accomplished all this with a 9 game schedule (suck is SEC).
Not a bad team there. Considering Wilson was sick or hurt for UCLA, Arizona and USC, that didn't help anything (wasn't the UCLA game around the time of his best friend's funeral?). The ASU, UCLA, Oregon St and Stanford games shows how close we are. We are right there. If Wilson was a JR instead of a true Soph, we probably win two of those games.
This is a good team and we are close. WSU has 4 wins...three are over Cal, Idaho and Southern Utah. They aren't very good.
We will go bowling. We will probably end up a FA looking for a bowl, and probably end up at the heart of dallas or pinstripe bowl...and we will win HUGE.
We will be really, really good next year. It isn't fair to fire Whitt now, when our goal before the year was get to a bowl game, especially if he gets to a bowl game. We are playing the toughest schedule in the country, with a true soph injured QB. Don't expect too much. Our whole offense returns next year, including getting Scott, Murphy and Tonga back.
Whitt got us here, he deserves a chance to make us relevant here. He is set up to do so next year. If he makes a bowl, he stays, no question. Then expect something special from Whitt, Erickson and Sitake next year. We will compete for the south title.