...you referenced players leaving Duke to go somewhere else and gain valuable coaching experience and then came back to share a diversity of experience to enrich the program. What we're talking about here at BYU is vastly different. We have a total of 9 yrs of D-1 assistant coaching experience on the staff, 7 of it with Lacomb who got the bulk of his experience under Rose. If all you know as a coach is what you learned from the same Head Coach you played or worked for how do you add anything new to the program other than being a "yes man"?

And the value of coaching is transcendant in sports and not limited to just one sport. Yes football and basketball are different sports (thx for pointing out the obvious there) but the impact coaching has on both sports is not different. All sports are impacted in a huge way by both good coaches or lousy coaches.