how serious the Church, BOT want to take football. If what BYU football has been producting is acceptable and just having a program to have a program is what they want then I think Bronco is the best man for the job. This doesn't seem to resonate with how the Church usually does things. An interesting thought is that the church generally approaches anything they do as "if we are going to do it, we are going to do it really well". That's something I admire about the church, they don't do shoddy work. Let's apply that to football if we are serious about playing football and doing it really well

After listening to Dick Harmon on 1280, it sounds like BYU is at a crossroads. Keep doing what we are doing and pay what we are paying and continue to get low paid home grown guys like, Anae,Howell, Doman etc. or get really serious and pay for qualified experienced coaches. If they are firm on LDS head coach, so be it, in someways that signals how good they want to be. In the meantime, if we want to be a serious football program, then don't put handcuffs on the program that aren't required by hiring only lds coordinators and assistants.

Also, I think if we are going to be serious about football. We will have to be more forgiving with athletes who can play but will likely make some mistakes along the way. I think BYU might be overly sensitive to public perception of our faith based football team. I don't think if some player gets into trouble at Notre Dame, Baylor, TCU, SMU, that the public ties it to the Catholic Church, baptist or otherwise. I'm not saying abandon the honor code, I just think we currently take such a hard stance on it because of the public image of the church and that the image might not be as damaged as we think when something happens.

I guess what it comes down to for me is just let me how serious the Church wants to take football. If we are highly committed to winning and competing at a national level then let's get the coaches and players to do it and I say best of luck to Bronco and others. If we are not willing to pay and get better players then I dont think we get better than bronco.