Kyle Whittingham and Urban Meyer just called out Michigan’s inexcusable Bryce Underwood mistake

Michigan spent Sherrone Moore’s first season at the helm without a quarterback, shuffling between Davis Warren, Jack Tuttle, and Alex Orji. So, the program loaded up the money cannon to keep the No. 1 QB in the 2025 high school class, Bryce Underwood, home. 

Then, after handing Underwood a $12 million multi-year contract to be the quarterback of the Wolverines, Moore set him up for failure. After not having a quarterback in 2024, the Wolverines didn’t have a quarterback coach for Underwood in 2025, something that Kyle Whittingham was perplexed by when he took over the program this offseason. 

Sherrone Moore did not have a ‘dedicated quarterback coach’ working with Byrce Underwood

Whittingham called out that absurd fact on The Triple Option podcast with Urban Meyer, telling the former Ohio State head coach, “from what I understand, there was no dedicated quarterback coach working with him on a daily basis, which has to happen.” 

Whittingham also laid out some areas for improvement for the former five-star, things his offensive coordinator, Jason Beck, and quarterback coach Koy Detmer are already working on. “There’s some things in the throwing mechanics and just things to smooth out in his fundamentals and technique,” Whittingham told Meyer. “We’ve already got a good start on that.”

When you hand a player with the talent of Underwood an eight-figure deal to be your quarterback, the clock starts ticking. As a program, your championship window is open from the moment that player arrives on campus, and you have to do everything possible to maximize that huge financial investment. 

That, of course, includes building out a talented enough roster for the player to succeed, and Michigan is doing that now with wide receiver Andrew Marsh staying put for his sophomore season and former five-star Jaime Ffrench transferring in from Texas. But it also means you must be invested in that player’s development to maximize their skillset before they likely leave for the NFL after their junior season. 

The circumstances of Moore’s dismissal are incredibly unfortunate, but every day of the Whittingham era shines more light on just how out of his depth Moore was as the head coach of a program like Michigan. Not to have a dedicated quarterback coach working with Underwood day in and day out in malpractice. 

Whittingham is cleaning everything up in Ann Arbor, and apparently, that includes his new quarterback’s fundamentals. With a competent staff in place, Michigan fans can expect to see the best version of Underwood in 2026 after an up-and-down debut season.