Bronco Mendenhall

College coach infobox
Name = Bronco Mendenhall


Caption = Bronco addresses team before 2006 TCU game
DateOfBirth = birth date and age|1966|2|21
Birthplace = flagicon|Utah Alpine, Utah
DateOfDeath =
Sport = Football
College = BYU
Title = Head Coach
CurrentRecord = 33–10
OverallRecord = 33–10
Awards = Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year (2006)
Championships = Mountain West Conference (2006, 2007)
CFbDWID = 3757
Player = Y
Years = 1984-85
1986-87
Team = Snow College
Oregon State
Position = Defensive back
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1990
1991-1993
1993-1994
1995-1996
1997
1998-2002
2003-2004
2005-Present
CoachTeams = Oregon State (assistant)
Snow College (assistant)
Northern Arizona(assistant)
Oregon State (assistant)
Louisiana Tech (assistant)
New Mexico (assistant)
BYU (assistant)
BYU (head coach)
FootballHOF =

Bronco Mendenhall is currently the head football coach at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Oregon State University. [web cite | title = Staff Profile - Bronco Mendenhall | url = http://www.byucougars.com/StaffProfile.jsp?ID=82 | publisher = BYUCougars.com | accessdate = 2008-09-27 ]

Early Coaching Career

In 1990, Bronco Mendenhall served as a graduate assistant coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. From 1991 to 1993, he served as the defensive coordinator for Snow College, a junior college in Ephraim, Utah. From 1993 to 1994, he served as the defensive coordinator for Northern Arizona University. From 1995 to 1996, he served as the defensive coordinator for Oregon State. In 1997, he served as the Secondary Coach at Louisiana Tech. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the defensive coordinator for the University of New Mexico, where he and head coach Rocky Long developed a blitz-happy 3-3-5 defensive scheme that produced NFL first round draft pick Brian Urlacher, who played in New Mexico's "Loboback" position, a cross between a linebacker and safety. Of Urlacher, Mendenhall said, "He had the most passion and non-stop motor of any player I've watched or coached. For him to come from a small place with only one real scholarship offer, to what he is now, is really a testament of hard work and dedication, and he deserves everything."

Move to BYU

In 2003 Mendenhall accepted the job to serve as defensive coordinator at Brigham Young University under then-head coach Gary Crowton. After three straight losing seasons, Crowton resigned. After a windmill of events, including the job being offered to former Cougar linebacker and current Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham, Mendenhall placed a call to UNLV head coach Mike Sanford, who was then on the look for a defensive coordinator. Mendenhall and his wife, Holly, had sat their sons down to tell them about the move, when Whittingham accepted the head coaching job at Utah. BYU players had been upset Mendenhall hadn't been offered the job, and in response, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe interviewed Mendenhall first. Two weeks later, Mendenhall became BYU's head coach. In 2005, his first year at the helm, the Cougars finished the regular season with a 6-5 record. They appeared in the Las Vegas Bowl, their first bowl game since 2001, falling to Cal 35-28.

Head Coaching Record

CFB Yearly Record Subhead
name = BYU Cougars
startyear = 2005
conf = Mountain West Conference
endyear = CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 2005
name = BYU
overall = 6–6
conference = 5–3
confstanding = T-2nd
bowlname = Las Vegas
bowloutcome = L
bcsbowl =
ranking =
ranking2 = CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
year = 2006
name = BYU
overall = 11–2
conference = 8–0
confstanding = 1st
bowlname = Las Vegas
bowloutcome = W
bcsbowl =
ranking = 16
ranking2 = 15CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship = conference
year = 2007
name = BYU
overall = 11–2
conference = 8–0
confstanding = 1st
bowlname = Las Vegas
bowloutcome = W
bcsbowl =
ranking = 14
ranking2 = 14CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 2008
name = BYU
overall = 5–0
conference = 1–0
confstanding =
bowlname =
bowloutcome =
bcsbowl =
ranking =
ranking2 = CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
name = BYU
overall = 33–10
confrecord = 22–3CFB Yearly Record End
overall = 33–10
bcs =
poll = two
polltype =

External links

* [http://www.byucougars.com/StaffProfile.jsp?ID=82 BYU Bio]

References