"The idea that, “Oh, Bronco was close all those years and just got a couple bad breaks no one could have seen coming,” for many is turning into “It’s always something with Bronco’s teams. If it’s not the offense collapsing under the guidance of the coordinator that was just handed the offense, it’s the defense collapsing under the guidance of the coordinator that was just handed the defense.”
I worry that BYU fans are becoming like the Red Sox fans in Fever Pitch, who lovingly said of their team: “They don’t just lose; they raise it to an art form.” Ask almost any BYU fan and they can rip through a set of heart-wrenching and unfortunate (and mostly home) losses from the last five years. One year we’re losing even without giving up a defensive touchdown and two years we’re losing making every quarterback we play look like an All-Star.
The repetitiveness is what’s really driving this, I think. It’s taken two years and a new staff for the program’s offense to recover from what happened on their last trip to Boise State. Now, just when the offense is fixed, we suddenly have what S&P rates at the worst defense since at least 2005. Can you fault fans for wishing the coach that has shown he can put nationally-elite defenses on the field was still coaching defense? Or at least that handing the defense over to someone else hadn’t gone exactly as poorly as it did last time? I worry that the catastrophes seem for many people to be outweighing the victories.
So, right now, it’s still about me. Right now, it’s still about how much these other fans and I are going to keep believing in and paying to watch a Bronco Mendenhall-coached team."
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