When fans and media gang up to pick — or even attempt to pick — college football coaches, it sometimes is a bad, bad thing. Even when the notion clearly seems like a brilliant one at the time.
Mobs can be emotional and ignorant, less than informed about the inner-workings and nuances of a specific football program.
Two years ago, when it was first suggested by someone that BYU legend Ty Detmer would be a great choice to run BYU’s offense, many of us — you and me and him and her and they and them and pretty much everybody else — thought that was a fantastic idea.