Monson: Dave Rose is gone. Good luck to BYU finding a willing, difference-making replacement.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brigham Young Cougars head coach Dave Rose during the game at the Marriott Center Thursday, December 21, 2017.Dave Rose is gone, having left a vapor trail that will soon dissipate in a deep bluer-than-blue sky of anticipation. And we get it. The Cougars want to do better, but …

The BYU basketball coach, who’s been sent packing — after a series of recent meetings centering on a proper buyout — by administrators, had his ups and had his downs over his 14 seasons, but spent most of his tenure in Provo somewhere in between. The Jimmer years were terrific, spent near the top of the college game, and the rest of Rose’s time wandered around in a kind of…