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New Mexico head coach Bronco Mendenhall during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Arizona Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Tucson, Ariz. | Darryl Webb
Utah State football all but has its man, and he is someone very familiar with football at the FBS level in the state of Utah.
On Thursday night, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that New Mexico head coach Bronco Mendenhall — who was the head coach at BYU from 2005-2015 and the head coach at Virginia from 2016-2021 before taking a two-year break prior to last season — is expected to soon be named the next head coach of the Aggies.
Sources: Utah State is expected to hire New Mexico coach Bronco Mendenhall as the school’s next head coach. The deal is expected to be completed in the near future. pic.twitter.com/Rx65lQafW0
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 6, 2024
Momentum had been gaining toward the move in recent days, and particularly on Thursday. Mendenhall will be the 22nd coach all-time for Utah State and will take over a program that was under a cloud of uncertainty throughout the 2024 season.
Last July, a month before the start of fall camp, Utah State fired Blake Anderson as its head coach. As a result, the Aggies were led throughout the past season by interim head coach Nate Dreiling, who was the youngest head coach in the entire FBS.
The program also dealt with the tragic death of a player (Andre Seldon Jr.), plus double digit season ending injuries to starters and finished the year 4-8 overall.
In total, it was the worst full season (12 games) for the Aggies since 2016 and the worst season in general since the 2020 pandemic season, in which USU won a single game.
Mendenhall isn’t a stranger to rebuilds, though, and that is what he will be undertaking at Utah State in his fourth stint as a collegiate head coach.
When he became BYU’s head coach…
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Publish date : 2024-12-06 04:32:00
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