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Kyle Whittingham is trying to ‘learn vicariously’ from the troubles of former boss Urban Meyer and Maryland’s coach

As Utah's fairly uneventful preseason football practice moves into its final week, coach Kyle Whittingham is keeping track of the tumult elsewhere in college football.

Even beyond his friendship with Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, Whittingham tries to remain aware of developments in the profession that can educate him, in his 14th season as a head coach. Whittingham, one of the most prominent members of Meyer’s expansive coaching tree, won’t comment directly on Meyer’s three-game suspension. Yet he’s following what has happened in the programs of Meyer and Maryland coach D.J. Durkin, another Meyer protege, who was placed on administrative leave Aug.