If Pope leaves BYU, is Burgess the next HC?

[LAUte]

@mUUser

Giac was a two time HC before arriving at Utah. Eastern Washington and NDSU

Whoops. Thanks. I guess I shouldn’t go from memory, but should actually look facts up before posting them.

[IrvingWashington]

@LAUte

…ootball it seems easier. Kyle was an assistant to Urban Meyer, whom he succeeded. I don’t think Ron McBride was a head coach anywhere before he got the top job at Utah. Wasn’t Lavelle an assistant at BYU before he took the head job?Anyway, I don’t think the history proves my point. In the present day it just seems unlikely to me that BYU would replace Pope with Burgess, not because Burgess doesn’t have the talent to be a head coach, but because he has no track record. My bias has always been that Utah’s basketball head coaches should be succeeded by someone who’s actually run a program at another school. Giac and Boylen were examples of how elevating an assistant can go wrong In the modern era.I could be wrong about this, and maybe my long-standing Ute fan PTSD is influencing my thinking.

Wasn’t Archibald head coach at Idaho State?

I saw a list in the Athletic of six possible hires by UW. Pope wasn’ one of them, but the coach at USU was.

[77ute]

I believe Archibald had been an assistant to Tark at UNLV during his early years in rhe mid- to late-70s.

[UTEopia]

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