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Monson: Mob rule! What happens when fans and media are wrong about guys like Ty Detmer, Greg Schiano and Herm Edwards? And who pays for it?

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.