Goodbye, Mr. Mendenhall?

[BemidjiCoug]

Mendenhall will never leave primarly because he will never have kids at any other school say this about him.

http://byu.scout.com/2/1137481.html

Lupeamanu’s private meeting with Coach Mendenhall was an extraordinary experience for him.

“Meeting with Coach Mendenhall was a humbling experience,” he said. “It was great. He didn’t ask one question about football, not one, which was surprising. I’m LDS, and so that experience I had with Coach Mendenhall was like I swear I was talking to the prophet. Having that experience like that with him was sweet.

“He didn’t question us about football or what positions we like or what we liked about the program. He asked us about our testimony and asked questions based on our character. It was sweet to experience that with Coach Mendenhall.”

[originalsocal]

fwiw, Bronco was asked a couple years ago if he could ever picture himself coaching at a another school, and he basically gave a list of schools where he could see that happening. I remember Stanford and the service academies off the top of my head, but can't recall the others.

I wonder if we could do a coach swap with Navy?

[Viking]

[mr_thekid]

Football comes 5th on Bronco's conversation points as well. He's a great spiritual mentor and it appears his players love him for that. Makes me think he would be more comfortable running an EFY camp than a Football team.

[HauteCoug]

The Sharlene Wells Hawkes theory.

you just became my favorite person.

[MarkGrace]

you just became my favorite person.

I would have guessed it happened when I mentioned Miu Miu shoes the other day. Guess not!

[HauteCoug]

I would have guessed it happened when I mentioned Miu Miu shoes the other day. Guess not!

I somehow missed that one - or I'm just far too tired to remember. Regardless... you're neat.

[Eddie]

Mendenhall will never leave primarly because he will never have kids at any other school say this about him.

http://byu.scout.com/2/1137481.html

Maybe I'm crazy, but that doesn't bother me.

I'm assuming that the coaches are doing their due diligence from the beginning. Hopefully they already know what position the kid wants to play, what his plans are, if he's a hard worker, etc. If they don't, those are questions that the assistants should be asking during the recruiting process. Once they get to Bronco, hopefully BYU already knows enough to know that they want the kid as a football player.

So then, Bronco's job is to assess if the kid is going to make it through 4-5 years of honor code and sell the kid/parents on what sets BYU apart from other schools - the experience they will have there.

Seriously, I don't have a problem with this approach.

If he were at another school, it would be smart to be talking long-term plans, academics, preparing for life, etc. rather than church/testimony stuff. Makes sense to me.