A very popular line of thinking among Sitake supporters is that the next guy in will face the same difficulty, have the same results, and since we really like Sitake as a person, or we think we'll poison the well by not accepting mediocrity, we might as well stick with him even if he puts a losing product on the field. The evidence in support of this tends to point to the disadvantages specific to BYU (like a fan base that expects way too much given the new landscape of college football, recruiting restrictions/honor code, and funding for coaches salaries), but, even though I don't disagree there are challenges specific to BYU that should cause us to temper expectations, I think arguments in favor of sticking with Sitake largely ignore the advantages of BYU. 

BYU is in a space where the program is earning somewhere between average P5 money and average G5 money for TV, but, by any estimation, these earnings are closer to P5 money than G5. Athletic budget is, again, somewhere between average P5 spending and average G5 spending, but closer to P5 than G5. These are averages and if you take the actual athletic budgets of various programs you would find that BYU's revenues and budgets compare favorably to the bottom half of most P5 conferences and there are very few G5s (if any) that match BYU in spending and some P5s spend less. So BYU's programs are ahead of many P5 programs in terms of historical success, fan interest, and budget. These are strengths of a program that is doing things without P5 TV money (even though TV money from independence has been very good for BYU athletics' bottom line).

BYU coaches are not making crazy money, but neither are BYU professors and many of them are doing outstanding jobs within their fields. They often accept a little less money because they believe in the mission of BYU and that's a selling point to students and, in my view, also to student athletes within the target market. I don't think BYU is at such a disadvantage that we should just be okay with losing to G5 teams with athletic budgets that are a fraction of our own. That is our coaching doing less with more, not the other way around. Just my 2 cents.