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2015 BYU Cougars Football
The 2015 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University (BYU) in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cougars, led by 11th-year head coach Bronco Mendenhall, played their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium. This was the fifth year BYU competed as an NCAA Division I FBS independent schools, NCAA Division I FBS independent. They finished the season 9–4. They were invited to the 2015 Las Vegas Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, where they lost to rival 2015 Utah Utes football team, Utah. On December 4, Mendenhall was hired as the head coach at Virginia Cavaliers football, Virginia. He stayed and coached the Cougars in the Las Vegas Bowl. He finished at BYU with an 11-year record of 99–43. On December 19, Oregon State Beavers football, Oregon State defensive coordinator and former BYU fullback Kalani Sitake was named BYU's new head coach. Before the season After a season in which the entire offensive staff was changed, BYU is expected to have stability in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronco Mendenhall
Marc Bronco Clay Mendenhall (born February 21, 1966) is an American football coach who most recently coached at The University of Virginia. He stepped down after the 2021 season. Mendenhall joined Virginia in 2015 after spending the previous eleven seasons as the head football coach at Brigham Young University, and resigned his position following the 2021 season. He has a career record of 135 victories and 81 losses, and has recorded fourteen postseason bowl game appearances with seven victories. Mendenhall is known for his unorthodox methods and "Earned Not Given" motto, even having players earn their jersey numbers each season. In 2019, Mendenhall became the first Virginia coach to bring both the Commonwealth Cup and Jefferson-Eppes Trophy to Charlottesville at the same time, and his Cavaliers also won the South's Oldest Rivalry in the same season. He took Virginia to the program's first Orange Bowl. More than 60 of Mendenhall's players have been signed to NFL contracts sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |