Metallicat wrote:

CAFB_04-12 wrote:

If I had a BYU 2008 BCS National Champions hat I would wear it to a recruiting trip to New Orleans. I think GC recruited some kids to BYU that weren't a natural fit. That was his only mistake in my uneducated opinion. While I hated listening to the team losing games, he showed that with a talented crew he was great (2001).

That and wanting to win by nine rather than two. Oh and traveling the day of to a road game wasn't the best idea either.

Okay, okay...

Metallicat wrote:

That and wanting to win by nine rather than two.

Honestly, taking that statement all alone by itself, who WOULDN'T rather win by 9 than just by 2?

Answer: Nobody

99.9% sure he was here to recruit Xavier Sufalo. X went to the LSU camp last summer.

How about not recruiting enough linemen because he had won w/o linemen before? The only thing GC proved in 01 is that if he had enough great offensive players, he could barely get by as a HC who didn't care about defense. To Crowton (from my perspective) it seemed that defense was just some trivial detail that got in the way of more important matters.

BYUtx wrote:

How about not recruiting enough linemen because he had won w/o linemen before? The only thing GC proved in 01 is that if he had enough great offensive players, he could barely get by as a HC who didn't care about defense. To Crowton (from my perspective) it seemed that defense was just some trivial detail that got in the way of more important matters.

I don't know if you remember, but a condition of Crowton becoming head coach at BYU was that he keep all the staff. So he had to keep Ken Schmidt to run the defense the first year. That defense put 4 players in the NFL in spite of how bad it played. Crowton also hired Mendenhall and the defense turned it around the next season. Unfortunately, the cupboard was bare for Crowton on offense after that.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad we have Mendenhall and Crowton is gone, but don't lay all the blame on Crowton for things that were out of his control. He did make OSU's defense look silly in the BCS title game this year. He knows how to coach, just not be a head coach.

CougarPeasant wrote:

BYUtx wrote:

How about not recruiting enough linemen because he had won w/o linemen before? The only thing GC proved in 01 is that if he had enough great offensive players, he could barely get by as a HC who didn't care about defense. To Crowton (from my perspective) it seemed that defense was just some trivial detail that got in the way of more important matters.

I don't know if you remember, but a condition of Crowton becoming head coach at BYU was that he keep all the staff. So he had to keep Ken Schmidt to run the defense the first year. That defense put 4 players in the NFL in spite of how bad it played. Crowton also hired Mendenhall and the defense turned it around the next season. Unfortunately, the cupboard was bare for Crowton on offense after that.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad we have Mendenhall and Crowton is gone, but don't lay all the blame on Crowton for things that were out of his control. He did make OSU's defense look silly in the BCS title game this year. He knows how to coach, just not be a head coach.

Don't forget that he also alienated a lot of former players and people around the program. By the end there weren't a lot of Crowton-supporters associated with the team.