Got news for you...this is the best it will get for all 8 reasons you list in your second paragraph. You can't blame the coaches without VIABLE replacements. Jay Hill and Paul Peterson will never come to BYU and have said as much.  Programs like Nebaska, Texas, USC, and Tennessee do not deal with ANY of the aforementioned issues. (BTW Bronco was an unproven HC as well, akin to Sitaki, Grimes, Tuiaki et al) Realistically, who exactly do you propose is better than the current coaching staff that: 1) Would be eligible to  be the HC? and, 2) Would want to take on the 8 difficulties that you so eloquently list?  At some point we have to realize the problem has little to do with the coaches, and has everything to do with the big 8.