Help Wanted: Who replaces Bronco?

[Topper]

i think it's pretty clear that Kenny N. never had an offer from BYU. Look at the way the Washington Post describes his staying at Navy:


It doesn't get describe that way if he had an offer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-stay-at-navy/

Your interpretation is certainly reasonable, but I can also envisage scenarios where a letter of intent was written and it just didn't go far enough. Sometimes parties in negotiations send out a multiple letters of intent with a clear understanding that others are out there too. I still submit we know too little. TH at one time intimated we'd have a coach last weekend. Also that might be the spin which they wanted to place on it.

[The_Douger]

i think it's pretty clear that Kenny N. never had an offer from BYU. Look at the way the Washington Post describes his staying at Navy:


It doesn't get describe that way if he had an offer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-stay-at-navy/

The agent was pushing that agenda, imo. A raise for Ken either way is good for the agent.

[Mormon Red Death]

Dude, are you aware that you were jogging the same trail as greatness? Morgan Scalley, Haloti Ngata, wally, (the list goes on...). Faithful Highland Rugby players jogged that loop EVERY day.

Mormon red death, hostile too!

[pelagius]

The agent was pushing that agenda, imo. A raise for Ken either way is good for the agent.

Agreed, the agent smartly painted a picture of Kenny N as inevitable. But his statements were carefully worded. He never said the Kenny N. had an offer either. Rather he tried to frame things in a way that made it seem like he had one or would inevitably get one.

[Moliere]

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[Uncle Ted]

The rumor is that someone else (KWhitt?) is coming in to interview on Monday... but Ken N. was the number one choice per ESPN:

Ken Niumatalolo staying at Navy after considering BYU
[...]
Niumatalolo was the top choice to replace Bronco Mendenhall at BYU. The school also has interviewed Kalani Sitake, a former BYU player and current Oregon State defensive coordinator, for the position.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...onsidering-byu

I wonder if KWhitt feels bad knowing he wasn't the number one choice.

[The_Douger]

Agreed, the agent smartly painted a picture of Kenny N as inevitable. But his statements were carefully worded. He never said the Kenny N. had an offer either. Rather he tried to frame things in a way that made it seem like he had one or would inevitably get one.

I'm not even sure he had a true offer either. Acting like was going to "decide" today seemed like trying to make BYU up their timetable for deciding this or forcing an offer. I hope we move on to Sitake or Anderson.

[Bo Diddley]

Mrs. Diddley is disappointed that Niumatalolo is not coming to BYU. I think she must have liked him from Meet the Mormons. She made me watch it for the first time last week.

[myboynoah]

Are people born this way, or is it something they learn, or catch?

My hunch is Niumatalolo realized the triple-option is his forte, in terms of pure football expertise, and BYU fans weren't going to go for that. I wonder if Holmoe gave him a full sense of the pressures in Provo, their predicament in the P5 wilderness, and the craving for a return to an age of glory that has taken on Paul Bunyan proportions, in large part because they were the unquestioned kings of football in the Intermountain West, and Utah, Boise and also TCU have blown past them in football prestige.

Niumatalolo's BYU moment has passed, so it's academic now.

Sitake I think will jump at the chance, even though I think he doesn't fully appreciate what he's getting into. Kalani was ready to become a head coach last year, and the insider assumption was it would be one of the MWC schools (UNLV, CSU, or maybe USU).

It's hard to know what Sitake's upside is as a head coach, because the job is so different, but trying to lead BYU nation out of the wilderness will be a freakishly difficult job, even for a highly skilled & seasoned head coach.

. . . . . . .

I think Sitake has the ingredients to be a very good head coach, but if he got frustrated with the Oregon State defense this year and said some things in the media I'm sure he'd like to take back, the pressures in Provo will make Oregon State look like a high school job.

Kalani has gotten a bit "rotund" in the past few years. I really hope he's on some blood pressure medication.

. . . . . . .

His first year in Corvallis was pretty rocky, even though they seemed to have some young talent. Even though Bronco's a weirdo, he had BYU at a pretty high level of mediocrity, given their constraints, but it was waaay under what the fans expected. Now BYU's schedule is turning into a grinder, and Sitake's Corvallis '15 experience could be extended at Provo, where the fans are both desperate and delusional.

If Kalani takes some time to really think it through, he might pass. I wonder if Holmoe has a pulse on this. He might want to get him inked ASAP.

[creekster]

Are people born this way, or is it something they learn, or catch?

I blame his parents.

[YOhio]

I blame his parents.

He never had the love that every child oughta get. He ain’t no delinquent,
he's misunderstood.
Deep down inside him there is good!

[Omaha 680]

I blame his parents.

[All-American]

He never had the love that every child oughta get. He ain’t no delinquent,
he's misunderstood.
Deep down inside him there is good!

Don't we already have a Star Wars thread?

[Commando]

It's now ok to say this although it may be a bit declasse-- Ken's face kind of looks weird.

[YOhio]

It's now ok to say this although it may be a bit declasse-- Ken's face kind of looks weird.

Yes. Both of them. The one that was on Meet the Mormons and also the one that used his church in it's time of need to get a pay raise both look weird.