It took BYU a little over two weeks to find a replacement to Bronco Mendenhall. Of course, the man they got wasn't their first choice. Rarely, does a college get their first choice when hiring a new coach.
Kenny Niumatalolo is a model Latter-Day Saint. That is likely why BYU went after him in the first place. It is difficult to lure someone away from a place they like to work, and from where your employer shows that they value you. Coach Ken and Navy are like peanut butter and jelly, or like turkey and stuffing on a holiday dinner. They just go well together. Sure, perhaps you should give credit to BYU for trying, but it was never meant to be.
Along comes Kalani Sitake. He is not an experienced head coach. But neither was LaVell Edwards. We all know how that turned out. Kalani is the first branch of LaVell's coaching tree to come back to BYU. Not all have been successful, but most have. There may be a few games next season where the inexperience will show, but eventually things will fall into place.
Sitake may not be the coach that will take BYU to the next level, or back to where the Cougars are in the national conversation every week. But expect that as long as the team has healthy talent, that they will at least compete every single week. That will be an improvement over Mendenhall, sad to say. The next two or three seasons should be fun to watch as Sitake's coaching style takes shape.
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