Even though my posts may come off that way. I am firmly in the ~this is not acceptable at all for BYU football and the issues need to be corrected, period. Or else he may need to move on~ camp.

I have one foot in the door and one foot out (on the bronco thing). But I do find that I seem to have way more in common at least philosophically with the "fire bronco" crowd, and honestly, nothing in common with the ~defend bronco at all costs, trust and obey your leaders, have faith your leaders will make the right decisions~ crowd. This crowd, that you just get the feeling they would defend this coach and this program right off a cliff. You get the feeling that no matter what happened, no matter how bad it was, they would be accepting and send out a supporting bronco tweet - like there really is no line that could be crossed that could make them re-evaluate. That is, for lack of a better phrase, excruciatingly annoying to me. I'm that supportive too - of my kids.

I'm not willing to accept mediocrity. Let me rephrase; I'm not willing to accept mediocrity AND continue to care as much as I always have, invest time as I always have, and think of BYU football the same as I always have. I feel myself losing motivation to even want to bring my boys to BYU games because I know they're not going to have the experience and memories I had when I was younger that made me into a fan.

There is so much potential being left on the field. People talk about, well who else would be able to coach the team. First of all, what a lackluster defense if that is the best reason you can think of to keep your coach around. That is pathetic. This BYU football, we've been beating up on bad competition for years. This is BYU, with the quality level of our average opponent we SHOULD be able to win 70% of our games sleep walking. I sincerely believe you could fill that blank any half way competent person with a pulse and win at least close to 70% against the competition we play. And now we can't even beat utah state, central florida, or nevada. I can't get over that people on this board think 70% against teams when you're a big fish in a small pond is so great. Half of our games are practically gimmies. If we were Utah State and he was winning 70% of the games then I could probably say yeah that's a good job. But we're BYU, and they're Utah State. There's a reason for that, and it's not Bronco Mendenhall.

Bronco has some signature wins, and some signature losses. I feel like they pretty much cancel each other out and it's a wash, and you're left with, beating crappy team's. And not always beating crappy teams. I'm not 100% sure how you define greatness, but I know when I'm not seeing it.

And why does Bronco have to be, a missionary president coach and stress how football is 5th, and not use all of the practices days, and hire inexperienced coaches, and keep talent on the bench behind people with life experience? I mean honestly, the players have bishops, they have seminary teachers or religion professors. They have sunday school teachers. Why does Bronco have to bear that burden? The guys are there to play football, can we please focus on that? I don't think the religion professor is taking time out to say religion is 5th, let's go have a football fireside and talk about football.

I think Bronco is a good guy. I like him personally, as a person. And he has the ability to shut everyone up if he delivers on what he said he was going to. If he does that then no one can say anything. If he doesnt, all the methods are going to come in to question, as one poster put it, "like clockwork".