ANN ARBOR – As players, Michigan first-year assistant coaches Koy Detmer Jr. and Alex Whittingham stood on opposite sides of the fierce in-state rivalry between BYU and Utah.
Now they’re on the same side, getting a crash course on what Michigan-Michigan State means ahead of Saturday’s matchup.
“Want to beat the h--- out of them,” Detmer, a former BYU quarterback from 2015-17, said Wednesday. “From everything that I’ve heard, it’s a tough, physical game. Someone described it to me as if you close your eyes and there was no fans in the stands and you just listened, you’d be able to know that it’s a Michigan vs.