On December 24, 2015, BYU football seemed to get its Christmas present a little bit early.
Ty Detmer had just accepted an offer to be BYU football’s new offensive coordinator. Immediately, fans began to imagine an offense that would match the excitement of the LaVell Edwards era.
After all, Detmer was the 1990 Heisman Trophy winner, a year where Detmer set 42 NCAA records and threw for 5,188 yards.
So far that hasn’t happened.
In Detmer’s first season as OC, fans gave him a pass. The coaching style was new, the coaches perhaps did not have enough time to change the whole playbook and there was no doubt that the starting quarterback, Taysom Hill, was not a pro-style quarterback.