Provo • Expectations for the BYU football team are as low as they have been since the latter half of the Gary Crowton era.
Gone are the days when Bronco Mendenhall crowed about contending for national championships, made “Quest for Perfection” T-shirts and trotted out other such nonsense. The most immediate goal now is getting to six wins, which would qualify the Cougars for a bowl game after they missed one last winter for the first time since 2004.
With preseason camp opening Thursday, it is hard to put a gauge on expectations because BYU doesn’t belong to a conference and therefore isn’t subject to preseason polls.