BYU's next head coach: The thread for speculating on the post-Bronco era

[Viking]

Bronco wins winnable games and loses everything else

[Shaka]

There's a pretty big connection between fumbled punts, qb's who don't know what they're doing, wasted timeouts, half ending meltdowns, special teams idiocy (and on and on and on . . . .) and the head coach.

I'm not saying Bronco doesn't do dumb stuff. However I like to take a much longer view when judging players and coaches. I think Bronco has done a pretty nice job on the whole.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

HL and CJ speak the truth. Bronco has done a good job with what he has. This year is a process. Frankly for this team losing to TCU is not an embarrassment. A couple of better decisions by Riley or maybe one less fumbled punt and BYU takes that game.

There's a pretty big connection between fumbled punts, qb's who don't know what they're doing, wasted timeouts, half ending meltdowns, special teams idiocy (and on and on and on . . . .) and the head coach.

[Shaka]

HL and CJ speak the truth. Bronco has done a good job with what he has. This year is a process. Frankly for this team losing to TCU is not an embarrassment. A couple of better decisions by Riley or maybe one less fumbled punt and BYU takes that game.

[oxcoug]

2 years removed from four 10 win seasons in a row. Currently 6 -3. The guy bugs the hell out of me but is a good dude and is a good coach. Tough crowd.

I should clarify - I'm not advocating the change - I've been a Bronco fan from the start - I just don't know that he actually wants to be around that much longer. And if he's not the damnit there should be a thread for speculating on what happens next.

[cougjunkie]

2 years removed from four 10 win seasons in a row. Currently 6 -3. The guy bugs the hell out of me but is a good dude and is a good coach. Tough crowd.

Agreed. BYU fans expectations are way to high. Since he became head coach we are the 7th winningest team in the country. I guess that is not good enough.

[Hot Lunch]

2 years removed from four 10 win seasons in a row. Currently 6 -3. The guy bugs the hell out of me but is a good dude and is a good coach. Tough crowd.

[Viking]

Maybe I will, maybe I won't. But you should probably boardmail me her name so I know how to avoid her.

You two would actually get on far too well. But she's really liberal and loves gay people.

[oxcoug]

Stay away from my sister. I'm watching you.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't. But you should probably boardmail me her name so I know how to avoid her.

[Viking]

Kyle Whittingham.

Haha! KW put the Utes in the Pac12, then promptly destroyed all credibility they had! His reward is to come back home and lead us to prominence again. Our evil plan is nearly complete!

[Viking]

In a perfect world ... maybe. In a perfect world Andy Reid would (a) shed 50 pounds then (b) come to coach at BYU.

But personally I'd be happy with a guy who has Coordinator-level NFL experience or high level D1 coordinator-level experience.

In its modern era BYU has not hired an HC that was HC somewhere else first.

I know that it felt like Crowton took us back to the Stone Age, but he was a HC prior and it was technically the "modern era".

Stay away from my sister. I'm watching you.

[CJF]

Kyle Whittingham.

[Viking]

Ken niumatolo seems to be the only right choice

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Ooh, I forgot about that guy. OK, party of two.

[Viking]

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Viking how does Bronco go from placeholder to long time coach with Bevel as the only candidate?

They can be mutually exclusive. Bronco is such a sheister with the fireside/spiritual nonsense that he's bought himself a lot of leeway. He's no dummy.

Only the devil can out wrastle Bronco now

[oxcoug]

out of the college gane for over 10 years so I am sure he understands the nuances of recruiting.

Yeah that's why Pete Carroll couldn't make the transition to coaching college.

Good call on Bevell. Zero ties to BYU, no head coaching experience

Pretty sure I framed it as a "does he? - if yes - then" conditional. But "zero ties to BYU" = just like all three head coaches of the modern era at BYU at the time they came to the Y.

no head coaching experience

Sounds a bit like.... the current head coaches of both BYU and the University of Utah.

Didn't we try that within the last decade?

If you're thinking GC I'd say... no. Since GC spent all of one season in the NFL as an OC and was pretty much figured out by NFL defenses by the end of that season. But he'd dazzled enough eyes with funky formations by that point that he was a shoe-in. Bevell's five years as an NFL OC + three years as an NFL QB coach sort of trumps Crowton's one year running an ineffective offense in Chicago. [EDIT: Crowton's offense averaged 12.8 pts per game in Chicago]