BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall knows his schedule is unusual, but it also might make him the happiest coach in college football.Florida
coach Urban Meyer has become the poster child for the horrors of
college coaching, featuring a rigorous schedule and unhealthy diet that
could easily lead to massive health problems. Coaches often talk of
working 18-hour days, sleeping at the office after long road trips to
get a head start on breaking down film, hopping on flight after flight
to woo recruits and taking less than a week off during the offseason
before ramping back up again.Mendenhall looks at those coaches and sympathetically shakes his head."We have a very unique model at Brigham Young
University," he said. "None of our coaches work on Sundays. Our entire
staff goes home every night after practice at 6:30. We've had
tremendous success because of the balance and I'm not willing, nor will
I ever be willing, for the sake of football to compromise that."