Michigan football: Rayshaun Benny on new coach Kyle Whittingham, staff changes

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Michigan football has had a few changes of the guard in recent years, first with Jim Harbaugh departing Ann Arbor for the NFL, and then with Sherrone Moore being fired in mid-December last year. Now, it's the Kyle Whittingham show, after the tenured head coach spent decades at Utah, building upon Urban Meyer's foundation to make the Utes one of the best programs in the country.

For outgoing players like Rayshaun Benny, it's interesting, to say the least, to see so many changes in the program. Speaking with reporters at the NFL scouting combine, Benny doesn't know Whittingham, but with what he knows of him, he's sure that he will lead the Wolverines back to glory after a few years in the proverbial wilderness.

"I don't really know," Benny said. "I was about to say I got full faith in him. I know Utah wasn't a historically good football program, but I know he was able to accomplish that. I believe he'll have more success at Michigan."

While Benny hasn't gotten to know the new staff, he's looking forward to it. Once he concludes his turn at the NFL scouting combine, Benny will eventually make his way back to Ann Arbor in a few short weeks to participate in the program's annual pro day. When that happens, he'll meet those he hasn't met, as well as reconnect with those he has.

Thus far, he's likes what he's seen from the new Michigan football head coach and staff, and while he's sad that there isn't more retention from the previous group, some of the moves weren't even in the purview of Whittingham.

"Yeah, it's something I'm waiting to get back to," Benny said. "I was about to say, I haven't been in time in the past few months. When I go back to Michigan and get ready for the pro day, that will be the first time I get around everybody. I'm looking forward to meeting everybody. I was about to say, I kind of talked about that to everybody before I left, and just introduced myself.

"I was about to say, it's different because a lot of people who, when I got there, they're not there no more. We've got a few people who stayed around. I was about to say, it was big when Coach Espo was retained. Then he left for the league. I was about to say, congrats to him. I was about to say, it's going to be an experience. I was about to say, it's something that nobody else from the past had to really go through, being the fact that there was always somebody in the building we knew. 

"It'll be interesting. I don't think it'll be bad. Like I said, I met with some of the coaches before I left. It was all good interactions and just the stuff that I heard about the coaches -- I think they're good people."

Michigan hasn't officially announced when pro day will be, but it generally happens just before spring ball opens up, which will commence on March 17.

This article originally appeared on Wolverines Wire: Michigan football: Rayshaun Benny on new coach Kyle Whittingham



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