It' because it's not normal BYU behavior and even beat writers think that.
I've been covering BYU athletics for a very long time, and this is completely outside of the box of how the program operates, and in a very good way. The amount of time it took to bring it together is very impressive, as much as anything else
BYU has proven it's very serious about taking basketball to the next tier by hiring Kevin Young. It's an un-BYU-like move, if that makes sense. But Big12 affiliation necessarily changes things, and it's looking like BYU is serious about said affiliation
The hiring of Kevin Young is unprecedented in many ways, including in terms of how quickly it happened —by BYU standards. Dave Rose retired on March 26 and Mark Pope was hired on April 10 (16 days). Pope left BYU on April 12 and Kevin Young was hired on April 16 (5 days).
