Doug Robinson: BYU reaches for a glory-days sequel

BYU's newest head football coach Kalani Sitake talks briefly with former head coach LaVell Edwards, following a press conference in Provo Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.

Think of it in "Star Wars" terms, as the Cougars reach out to old heroes to bring their football program back to where it was a long time ago in a football galaxy far, far in the past.

Maybe the best way to make sense of all that has happened to the BYU football program in recent weeks is to imagine it in "Star Wars" terms.

As everyone knows, Bronco Mendenhall abandoned the Cougar ship but not before suffering another loss to the evil Lord Whittingham and the Ute Empire in an unspeakable horror in the desert. Oh, and also not before…