Last week, BYU announced that the dearly loved Mo Langi would no longer be pursuing his football career, setting off the wave of reaction that typically comes with any news released from the athletic department.
There were the all-knowing Twitter seers who came out of the woodwork, brandishing their “I told you so” messages, right in lockstep with the apologetics that assured us under other specific circumstances Mo Langi’s career would have been a major success. There are other messages, but on the majority, fans will look back on Mo’s time at the Y and see it as a failure.