He said he was learning a ton about modern trends in college football offense as the season went on. That's not a play-calling issue. While he obviously has the smarts to absorb anything out there, he made it sound like he had no interest in it prior to jumping into his first college-level coaching gig and starting to see what works and what doesn't. It's not a knock on Ty's ability or potential. He probably has a solid future in coaching if he wants it, but for a very long time he didn't want it and that made his learning curve a different beast altogether.

Grimes' experience over the past two decades is the opposite, and he seems to bring a lot of what BYU needs. He has top level skill in teaching execution, and his reputation in Provo is that he was an ideal fit with Bronco's emphasis on discipline, assignment-soundness, effort, execution. He has a broad and deep pool of coaching contacts, which should translate into upgrades at position coaches. He comes in with very specific knowledge of the current landscape of college football offense. He also has ambitions beyond BYU, which was a key element in some of BYU's most successful coaching hires in other eras.

Your last sentence is spot on -- there will be accountability based on results and there's certainly risk here. But Grimes is coming from a different starting point than Doman or Detmer, with a resume more like Anae's only more impressive. You sound like you would have preferred to keep Ty but many of us could not bear another season of watching that offense. My fear was that Kalani saw Roderick as the answer. Grimes is such a better hire in so many ways.