Any time a football program changes hands, alterations are expected. It’s the norm for new staffs to craft things to their liking, by installing new schemes, bringing in new players and letting old players move on.
That cycle has happened at Utah State a few times in recent years.
When Matt Wells left Utah State for Texas Tech and Gary Andersen took over, the Aggies dramatically shifted their style of play — on offense especially — even with star quarterback Jordan Love still on the roster.
When Blake Anderson took over for Gary Andersen a couple of years laters, the pendulum swung again, and in 2021 USU football hardly resembled what had come before, via new schemes and a rash of transfers added.
So when Bronco Mendenhall was announced as the latest head coach of the Aggies in December, expectations were that things were going to change.
Few probably had an idea of just how much, though.
Over the last seven months, Utah State has added 70 new players to its roster for this upcoming season and has signed 87 new players in total when you count players who have since left home to serve missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In the House settlement era of college football, which caps rosters at 105 players, that means that two thirds of Utah State’s roster for 2025 has never played a game for the Aggies. For as much turnover that happened when Andersen and Anderson took over the program, Mendenhall has taken it another level.
Utah State football is indeed in a new era, an unprecedented one at that. Because of that, Mendenhall is quick to note things are just barely at their beginning for Utah State under its new head coach,
“Really excited for the beginning of a new era that again, is the beginning,” Mendenhall said Tuesday morning at Utah State football media days in Logan. “We’re not…
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