My wife had been a lifelong fan. Crowton ruined it. My wife loves a blowout, BYU blowing out an opponent. She doesn't enjoy a close game as much as I do. I enjoy a close, intense game or a surprising BYU blowout of an opponent (UCLA 59-0, Texas -especially the first time). Crowton's last year ruined football for my wife. It took a year or 2 for her to tell me. Sitting through 2 late night games where BYU was destroyed by CSU and BSU in sleet, snow, rain... all in freezing temps and then the 0-3 white-out loss to Utah. A year or 2 later I commented to my wife that (still going to almost every game with me) she didn't seem to be enjoying the games anymore. She said that those losses in horrible weather really changed things for her. She didn't really enjoy the games after that.

Thankfully the kids by this time were old enough to be good companions at games, so my wife picked a game or 2 each year and I took others to the rest of the games. Recent years she has started going to more games with me again and is back to enjoying the games. Nice to have my wife with me at more games, because she is by far my preferred game date. Also good, because the kids are now older, married and harder to schedule to go with me to games and grandkids are probably a few years from enjoying the games.