"The facts that BYU s offense was an embarrassment this past season and that Bronco Mendenhall doesn t have a brain for offensive football led to Friday s curious news that Robert Anae will be returning as the Cougars offensive coordinator.

Another factor: BYU must have had few options, unable to find and lure another offensive-minded coach, in the Cougar tradition, to come to Provo to rescue the phase of the game that boosted the program s profile under LaVell Edwards.

Instead, the school lurched back for a retread, a coordinator who exited BYU at the end of 2010, after a season during which Anae stacked and lit the offense into a burning heap. Seared into memory is the way the attack that year stumbled through the Cougars first seven games, against more challenging opponents, when the team fell to 2-5, and the offense at that time spiraled downward to the bottom of national rankings in total offense, scoring offense, passing offense and passing efficiency.

Remember, Anae had been a proponent and defender of BYU s ill-advised move to use two quarterbacks early that season, ineffectively splitting time between Riley Nelson and Jake Heaps. He spun the foolishness of that decision straight to the end, wholly missing the error in judgment, saying it was "the exact course to take."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/55571258-88/anae-byu-offense-offensive.html.csp

From there is just goes on and on and on about how bad Anae is, suggesting success in the past was because John Beck and Max Hall interceded (which many of us have heard in the past) and offering such proclamations as "Many players disliked him. He had the charisma of a pile of bricks, the bearing of a glacial drift. He inspired his underlings with the heavy drag of a rack of blades turning soil hitched behind a plow horse. He was solemn and stubborn, not inspiring"

Personally this was an article that while there was a lot that I agree with on the playcalling, it felt like it went beyond professional, and almost came across as vindictive. Hopefully another couple of years outside BYU at Arizona helped Anae further refine his professional acumen, just as a few years for so many of us in a different workplace would change us, so I hope we see an even better OC than he was in the past when he was very solid.