Interesting stuff here. A few days ago I started a thread entitled "Enough of the Bronco/Doman/Riley Apologists!!", which summed up what most posters are stating on this thread, and I got as raped as one can get on-line. I was accused of making it all up, not actually attending the game, not being married, not being a BYU fan, being a Ute fan, being a bad BYU fan for leaving early with my cold wife, etc.
Maybe all those on my side were too busy watching conference to post on the forum?
Bottom line, Doman and Weber need to go. An experienced OC needs to be hired. Bronco needs to make the right hires. If Bronco can't get the right personal in and we continue to beat cupcakes, struggle with decent teams and lose every big game, Bronco also needs to go.
Riley should be second on the depth chart now with Lark as the starter and Riley coming in for a few wildcat and double QB formations.
The two years we had senior Beck and senior Hall, we should have busted the BCS but Bronco found a way to lose two of the first three games that we should have won but for poor coaching and preparation.
We have been dominated by Utah and allowed USU to arguably pull to the same level as us. Not good! If we can't win in-state recruiting, things will only get worse.
Bronco has seemed to reach a ceiling that is much lower than most of us would like. If you are a BYU can do no wrong, love BYU because I love the church, effort and attitude is all that matters, I understand why you love Bronco. FOr those of us who love football and also love BYU, but also expect more of the football teams performance, Bronco is hard to love. Great d-coord, horrible TEAM motivator, horrible at selecting and managing coaches, horrible at managing players, horrible time management, horrible adjuster, horrible ...He just isn't a very good D-1 head coach. But he is still young and I would be willing to give him the chance to try to hire some new coaches to fill in his shortcomings and see what happens. Doman and Weber aren't helping with Bronco's shortcomings.
I actually hope that if Riley starts, he gets knocked out before the end of the first quarter. He is too much like Bronco in that his ceiling is low. Even if he plays to his potential, and is not hurt (which seems like never), it would still not be good enough to beat good teams. His decision making sucks, he is too slow, he thinks he can run through LB, he fumbles like crazy, and doesn't have the arm strength to throw hard outs.
Two weeks ago I actively advocated for Lark to start with Hill as back-up and wildcat in order to keep Hill healthy and to avoid throwing him to the wolves too early. I was right. Again, many of us on here who advocated this were right. We just lost our QB of the future to an unnecessary knee injury and he will likely miss Spring ball. Just when we thought we would finally avoid a QB controversy for the first time in 4 years, I am predicting that unless Doman goes, and Hill recovers faster than expected, there will still be a controversy, and sadly, Riley is still kind of involved.
I honestly wish Riley never came, that Heaps was brought on slowly with Lark starting, that Bronco hired a great experienced OC and that we played so much closer to our players potential. We should have 2 BCS appearances with a 3rd this year. We will be 0-3 when our potential was BCS caliber! That is unacceptable!
