Provo • Two days after BYU cruised past Hawaii last November in a mostly meaningless season finale, coach Kalani Sitake relieved offensive coordinator Ty Detmer and most of the other offensive coaches from their duties and called a heated team meeting in which players saw a different side of the usually affable, easygoing coach.
And so began a program overhaul in which six new assistant coaches were hired and Sitake vowed to change the culture, which had become too undisciplined for his liking.
Some viewed them as desperate moves. Others said they were a long time coming.