He left. It was over. OK, fine.

Any coach takes assistant coaches and recruits the best players from the team. And it isn't surprising when those players follow the coach - because they don't have to worry about the unknown of a new guy.

This doesn't set back BYU long-term. And with NIL and a free-for-all transfer portal, Young can get BYU on track relatively quickly.

Heck - the dude up at USU just won the conference and went to the tourney (where he did better than Pope) and did that after returning not even one player who had scored a point in a game the prior season.

BYU will be fine.