jabs about the fact someone might care somehow will make the OP care less or something.  If you really don't care, don't comment.

So many of these discussions get circular really quickly.

It's obvious that the Popes aren't going to be viewed as BYU heroes going forward.  At best, I would assume most BYU fans who cared about the basketball team are indifferent, and some will continue to harbor ill will.  Then there are those odd ducks here and there that want to proclaim how very little they care to the point of saying that they hold the last sequence of events up as some model of exactly how everything is and should be done.

Whatever.  I think people will have better than average feelings for the Pope family over time as they get back entrenched with the new coaching staff, but it would also be kind of weird to me to act like all of this is exactly how most people behave in the professional world.  Sometimes it's worse, and sometimes it's better, but most people try to be courteous to their former employers on the way out, especially when they leave on their own terms.  I'm sure in retrospect Mark Pope and family will think they might have done it a little differently.  Who really knows.