I have been a BYU fan for a long time. They have struggle over the past couple of years but Crowton should stay. He hasn't had a good team for 2 years and thats why they had 2 losing seasons. If you look at it, his first year he had an awesome team with great players. The next 2 years he has been playing with young quarterbacks which has hurt the team in many ways. If you look at this year, in the Boise State game, everyone say how well the team played against the number 1 offence in the country. We should have beat them yes, but if wasn't Crowtons fault we lost. He coached a good game. You saw how well Beck played and how the play calling was. This is just the beginning and everyone is going to see a different BYU football team. Crowton should stay because he is turning the program around and everyone should see it in how they have been playing reciently.!

I agree with those who say Coach Crowton should stay. He has had some memorable gaffes, (win by 9 not 2) but he has learned from them. The losses this year were not due to any lack of coaching - they were failures of execution. If we get rid of Coach now we loose all of the lessons that he has learned, and that would be bad!

I don't want to give the name of my psychic - but we have seen this in the tea leaves for a long while.

Here's how it will shake down:

Crowton is fired tomorrow. Val Hale is brought back in as the interim head coach for the CSU game. After the CSU game, Val Hale is fired and Tom Holmoe is put in charge and made to scrounge money from the players to raise money for a new Cougar Club inflatable vehicle. This vehicle would be like unto the Oscar Meyer weiner-mobile... only bigger and more football shaped.

After that, using some power we don't fully understand, Vince Lombardi is brought back to life and he decides to take the post as head coach. After playing out the remainder of our season, the NFL decides to pit our team versus the AFC champions. We win, and BYU cougars go to the SUPERBOWL and get this - WE WIN!

The reason we win, of course, is because Steve Young comes back as our quarterback and leads our team to victory. We actually use a double-threat offense that Vince cooks up having both Steve Young and Jim McMahon as quarterback in the backfield... Wow... talk about an option attack...

You all might not be "believers" but I tell you this is as true if not more true than that crap that everyone else is peddling around.

Wow, that's scary, someone has actually heard the same rumor i heard. I even was told the part about Crowton being fired after next game to be replaced by Holmoe, but I dismissed it as too absurd to consider.
In all reality I think the whole rumor is too absurd to consider (which I told to my friend that told me the rumor)
Whether or not the Chow/Reid part is true (if it is it might not be such a bad thing) But the firing of Gary mid-season will only insure that BYU doesn't win another game this year. If Gary stays then he will likely pull out a winning season despite the odds that are against him. But frankly, if I were Crowton I would leave regardless of if I got fired or not, he's been treated like a freaking nazi by his own people. Shame on them, Yes there are better coaches then Crowton, but there are far far worse coaches that are in D-1A football as well.
Anyway, I hope for the sake of BYU football that Crowton gets to finish the year, and if he does very well in the MWC then unless a top notch coach is banging on the door I hope Crowton stays.

BYU might also want to consider letting Crowton hang around until the recruiting season is over, the guy has a talent for recruiting. So maybe they should at least wait until mid Feb to fire him.

As many of you probably have heard, Steve Martin joined the LDS Church a few years back. The 1st Presidency secretly funded the recent movie "Cheaper By the Dozen" where Steve Martin played a father to 12 kids AND was a football coach. His role in that move, both as football coach and father to 12 children, was the training ground for the grand plan for him to become the head coach at BYU after Crowton is fired next week. Tom Holmoe is the only one in the Athletic Dept. who knows this, and as a diversion tactic he "leaked" the story about him becoming the interim coach, to be succeeded by Chow, to be succeeded by Andy Reid.
You can call me a lunatic, but this story was told to my brother directly by Lionel Ritchie in Priesthood meeting on Sunday. Lionel and Steve Martin are good friends since Lionel joined the church first and referred his Hollywood pal Steve Martin to the missionaries. Lionel is slated to be the new recruiting coordinator under Martin and his mission is to find guys who are really fast but won't rape and pillage in Provo.

--chuckles--