News that Kyle Whittingham had accepted Michigan’s offer Friday left us pondering not only the past 15 days but also the past 15 months, with all the wild twists life has taken for the future Hall of Fame coach and the program he led for 21 years. Specifically, we mulled the events within the context of the movie Sliding Doors, in which two futures unfold for the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow based on something as seemingly innocuous as whether she makes her scheduled subway or misses it by fractions of a second and is forced to take the next train. For Utah and Whittingham, the Sliding Doors moment occurred Sept. 7, 2024, when quarterback Cam Rising slammed into a bank of water...
