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Kalani Sitake’s BYU football program made significant progress in 2018, but school officials aren’t in a hurry to extend the coach’s contract

Provo • Five weeks after BYU woke up in the second half and demolished Western Michigan 49-18 in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl to finish coach Kalani Sitake’s third season with a 7-6 record, the Cougars’ coaching staff is hard at work recruiting for national signing day on Feb. 6.

It has been a relatively quiet offseason — a year after a tumultuous December of 2017 in which the majority of the offensive coaches were released and replaced — but one in which a major question hangs in the air regarding Sitake’s future.

Why hasn’t the school extended Sitake’s contract?