...that other programs do. He's said he likes his coaches to be home for dinner at night and we already know they don't work on Sundays.

Here is an excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel where it contrasts the coaching style of Urban Meyer when he was a Florida and Bronco's at BYU.

"Florida coach Urban Meyer has become the poster child for the horrors of college coaching, featuring a rigorous schedule and unhealthy diet that could easily lead to massive health problems. Coaches often talk of working 18-hour days, sleeping at the office after long road trips to get a head start on breaking down film, hopping on flight after flight to woo recruits and taking less than a week off during the offseason before ramping back up again.

Mendenhall looks at those coaches and sympathetically shakes his head.

"We have a very unique model at Brigham Young University," he said. "None of our coaches work on Sundays. Our entire staff goes home every night after practice at 6:30. We've had tremendous success because of the balance and I'm not willing, nor will I ever be willing, for the sake of football to compromise that."

Mendenhall goes out on a date with his wife once a week, tries to eat dinner with his family every night and does his best to work out daily.

He manages to be a model family man and still win. Mendenhall is 49-15 in five seasons at BYU.

"Unfortunately, a lot of coaches in our profession sacrifice their family and their health for their job," he said. "Many are asked to sacrifice one for the other because of whom they work for. I'm really trying to show a model that they're not exclusive. That you can do both, that you have success and spend time with your family."

Mendenhall said he doesn't know of any other program that follows the same schedule, and it was a struggle starting it at BYU."

He says it was a struggle to get it going at BYU. That indicates he had to get some buy-in. What chance do you think he'd be able to do that somewhere else? Get Sundays off. Get a date night with his wife. Get to go home for dinner each night or most nights?