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Dr. Shades wrote:I don't know anything about sports, so please help me out: What's wrong with Bronco Mendenhall, and how is he different from any other college football coach?

A few years ago Bronco was on the Jim Rome Show. The first caller after the radio interview said something like: "The dude's name is Bronco? Weeeeird!"

I hope that helps clarify things for you.

UPDATED 4:04 p.m. ET: There appears to be some question as to whether Mendenhall actually applied for the job. We’ll continue to monitor the situation.

Sounds like someone sent in a photocopied bio, with no cover letter, ect.... The results of too many helmet collisions or was the BYU cloak and dagger squad spoofing the Wisconsin AD?

Bronco is no more wierd than "Lovie".

LaVell Edwards worked miracles within the system and with the kids he could recruit. If he had been anywhere else I think he would have had more than one NCAA national championship.

Remember, BYU leadership "prays about it" when hiring coaches. I wonder if God tells them when to fire them or let them go?

Having watched the debacle that was the Rodger Reid firing doubt a God of any sort has a damn thing to do with anything at all as far as BYU is concerned.

Dr. Shades wrote:I don't know anything about sports, so please help me out: What's wrong with Bronco Mendenhall, and how is he different from any other college football coach?

Bottom line, with few exceptions, in any sport he is simply not winning ( enough 90/39). It is a what have you done for me lately environment.

It is the exact opposite of being a tenured professor... if that helps?

Markk wrote:

Dr. Shades wrote:I don't know anything about sports, so please help me out: What's wrong with Bronco Mendenhall, and how is he different from any other college football coach?

Bottom line, with few exceptions, in any sport he is simply not winning ( enough 90/39). It is a what have you done for me lately environment.

It is the exact opposite of being a tenured professor... if that helps?

I think I get it. . . People want him fired merely because his win/loss record is uncomfortably below 50% (and for no other real reason).

Thank you.

Dr. Shades wrote:I think I get it. . . People want him fired merely because his win/loss record is uncomfortably below 50% (and for no other real reason).

Thank you.

Well...there are many variables that add to the gravity of not winning

Mainly, less butts in the stands=less beer and hot dogs sold=less t shirts sold=lost parking revenues...etc. There are also bragging rites, and in college...5 star athletes won't accept scholarships to a losing team that is not noticed or gets less TV time because they are crappy, meaning... pro scouts will not see them as much...and alumni with deep pockets known as boosters will always demand victory.

It is just our nature to win...myself having coached just about every sport with my kids growing up, from age 5 to 18...if you don't win, even parents give you crap...even in the lower age brackets there is always a few parents that have their head up their rears in this regards?

On a side note...I have coached teams with 11 and 0 records, and teams with 0 and 11 records...I coached them the same way, with the same strategy's, and styles...I learned over the years that no matter what, you are as a coach "only as good as your horses." The years I won, I won before the season started by winning the draft.

Point being, for the very most part, most coaches get too much credit when you win, and too much criticism when they lose. John Wooden was a great man and coach, but he would never have had the success he had if he did not have Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) or Bill Walton and many other gifted players...or Phil Jackson would never be the winningest coach in NBA history without Jordon, Kobe, and Shaq...in fact when Jordon went to play baseball for three years...Jackson didn't win, when Jordon came back and the Bull's won three more titles in a row.