It's a fair point that it hasn't come out of nowhere.

"Fans have had a lot of frustrations with Bronco over the last several years. The Riley Nelson 'grittiness' debacle. Utah. The Jake Heaps debacle."

I was a vocal critic of the Riley Nelson issue. I'm not saying Bronco has been perfect or that we can't express disagreement.

"Football is fifth."

This one is a feature not a bug. We aren't losing games because Bronco tries to keep football in its proper perspective and tries to teach the players to do the same. Hopefully, we are training young men to avoid becoming Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson types that we cheer because they win until we find out things have gone way off the rails in their personal lives.

"Quest for Perfection."

An unfair criticism. He said from the beginning that the motto that year was about BYU's mission as an institution. Anyone who interpreted that to be a bold prediction about going undefeated and then got disappointed deserves all the disappointment they felt based on stupidity alone.

"Hiring woeful assistants. His tone-deaf, and sometimes hostile, attitude towards fans. Having a least a couple of games every year where we look woefully unprepared or unmotivated. Seeing rivals in BCS bowls while we're perpetually on the outside. And Utah."

You put way too much focus on Utah. In 15 years a great percentage of college football fans will either be too young to remember the BCS or they'll have to stretch back in their memories and think of the BCS as that ridiculous step on the way to getting playoffs. In the long range trends, it's pretty close to meaningless. Not even as good as a Sweet 16 in basketball.

"I think that the way the wheels have come off the last few games has just caused a lot of lingering doubts and frustrations to bubble to the surface. Fans are starting to believe that Bronco's brand of head coaching is causing us to slide into mediocrity and irrelevance."

Most of these same people were going overboard on the praise a few weeks ago. Fearing a slide into mediocrity and irrelevance is premature, IMO.