reactionary in nature. As I pointed out in my original post, I don't have a clue what Sitake's philosophy is. What is his plan to make BYU competitive?

For example - TCU took the approach that they were going to recruit speed, speed, and more speed. Then they'd take their program filled with all these super fast athletes and build a defense around them. That defense was going to be the centerpoint of their team.

Boise decided they were going to install a video game offense with lots of trick plays and try to pass for 500+ yards per game and basically outscore their opponents to death.

Whitt made the decision to build his team around a highly physical disruptive defense. He combined that with a plodding, ball control, offense to keep scores low so that he's always within a TD of winning a game, and every game is competitive for him.

Nobody knows what Sitake is trying to build towards. Great. He's coaching up his recruits and trying to fill talent gaps. Every coach in the country is doing that. That's a fine approach if you're recruiting top tier talent. You'll end up winning games because you have bigger/faster/stronger/more skilled players. If you're getting average talent, it just means your product on the field is going to be average.

Here's an example of where we've regressed this year. Last year Grimes had this plan to come in and disrupt defenses with speed and motion. He also wanted to build an OL that could go toe to toe with DLs and grind out yards in road-grader fashion. All that has seemed to go away this year. With this current crop of coaches, the longer they stay at BYU, it seems like we have less direction as a program and less definition of what we're trying to accomplish and how we want our players to go about fulfilling those accomplishments.