CougarPeasant wrote:

mormonrasta wrote:

Bronco discussed at one of the team's firesides how much of a burden it was to be the HC. He talked about how unsure he was about meeting all of the demands, commitments, and expectations of the job. This is after the first 11-2 season!!! In that fireside he talked about the spiritual reassurance he got to proceed with this last season.

I wonder if he will ever get comfortable with the job. I'm hoping he does and can lead BYU for an extended period of time. But the tone of the article wasn't surprising at all.

It's a tough job, especially for a father with kids. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him giving up the DC job after next season so he won't have to be so fully involved. He's done great things in 3 years as a brand new head coach. I think it will get easier for him and he'll learn to delegate more the longer he stays.

Holmoe has done a great job as AD since taking over, so moving him out in favor of Bronco is a bit premature even 5 years out.

I agree; he needs to delegate the DC position, so he can focus on HC responsibilities. In order to do that, though, he needs to find somebody that has his same defensive mindset and philosophy. Is Jaime Hill that candidate? Dunno - but that would ensure that Coach Hill stays around longer...

What scares me is that if he wants to get out of coaching (retirement is how I read it), there are other schools that can help him reach that goal quicker than BYU can.

jeremygeorge wrote:

What scares me is that if he wants to get out of coaching (retirement is how I read it), there are other schools that can help him reach that goal quicker than BYU can.

What school besides BYU will get a NC for BYU faster than BYU?

Bronco doesn't care about the money nearly as much as the security and proximity to family he has here.

Of all of the coach's in Division I football, I don't see anyone more likely to be at their current institution in 10 years than Bronco. I see him as a 15-20 year coaching great at BYU who will move on to spend time with his family afterward.

I heard Greg Wrubell talking about Bronco and BYU and became convinced that this would be his first and last head coaching job unless he were fired by the school for some reason.

dYrtbYkerYder wrote:

I heard Greg Wrubell talking about Bronco and BYU and became convinced that this would be his first and last head coaching job unless he were fired by the school for some reason.

Yup, I heard that too. That's never been an issue with me. The only question is for how long?

I think Bronco just looks at the overall burden of the job, and is taking what former Florida & current South Carolina Head Coach Steve Spurrier said a few years ago about staying with a program too long and why he chose to leave Florida when he did; "10-15 years at one prograom is long enough." I don't think you'll ever see a LaVell Edwards, Bobby Bowden or Joe Paterno length of stay, even at a program like BYU.
Look at the three above I've mentioned and their lack of exit strategy:
---Don't like changing assistant coaches, at least very often later in carear (Edwards).
---Both Bowden and Paterno still think they have another national championship, despit being eightyish and not telling recruits they'll be there after 4-5 years when theri eligibility runs out.
I think Bronco looks at this and wants to keep a credible exit strategy in mind. Big money won't draw him away from BYU since BYU now pays head coaches what his average/median counterparts in the PAC-10 or Big-12 (with the exception of Oklahoma's Bob Stoops--$$3.5 million) typically make. As it stands Bronco makes as much as Gary Patterson does at TCU, and those two are the highest paid MWC coaches, the same as Pat Hill over at Fresno State of the WAC. What SMU is willing to pay June Jones ($1.8-$2 million per year!) could push renegotiations for the three mentioned higher. What I read is Bronco could have an exit stretegy in play, and sometime between age 50-55 he could just fade away as an associate AD and setting up a horse ranch on Maui, and have a worthy successor in place that pleases him, the fans and the administration.