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Liberty City El said:
It’s a different brand of football & different caliber of athlete he was dealing with at UVA than at BYU.

People like to really oversell how bad the ACC is & don’t get me wrong, it is a bad conference in comparison to the SEC in that way, but people really sleep on actually how good the ACC is in terms of talent. I think conference has suffered from not having good coaches, but there’s a good amount of talent team for team in the ACC.

Mendehall also is subpar recruiter, recruiting at BYU is a completely different animal than recruiting at a place like UVA, you’re mainly going after kids who socially, religiously & culturally are already bought into the kind of program you have so there’s very little selling you have to do at BYU, you’re basically recruiting kids who already wanna sign there anyway. Plus the only comp is basically Utah & Utah St, and sometimes when Pac-12 schools like Oregon & Wash don’t get a top tier Samoan kid they might dip into the same pool of recruits as BYU, but for the most part BYU has their own section of kids they recruit that are separate from the rest of the West Coast powerhouses.

The region of Virginia as a recruiting ground has been completely commandeered by Bama, UGA, OH St & Penn St, plus the Carolina schools will reach up & take a few of their top kids as well, but VA is tough job to recruit at, which means you can get by off talent alone, you have to have a schematic advantage to level the playing field & Menedhall being a primarily Defensive minded HC from the Rocky Long tree, he never figured out the offensive side of the ball until it was too late.

He stuck with his guy Robert Anae for too long & it cost him.
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Really great review of the BYU/Mendenhall partnership and how BYU itself fits in to the college football landscape. It is a different animal isn’t it? As well as a nice overview of the situation at UVA football.

That was a really smart, well thought out, and knowledgeable response.

Much appreciated..
 
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He went .500 with one of the highest graded QBs in college football the last two years.

In the end he never could recruit VA. Which sucks for him because Fuente couldn’t either. There was a serious in-state void to be filled.

And he was never able to establish his brand of football. UVA was a soft team, with a ****** defense, ****** special teams, and constantly made dumb mental mistakes.
 
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