Crowton made some mistakes, but it was the unprecedented combination of injuries, youth, difficult schedule and eventual near-mutiny that gave the impression his ineptitude was bigger than it really was.
That said, Bronco has a much better and broader mastery of the multi-faceted world of BYU football head coaching, excelling in areas such as player discipline, media relations, alumni and administration relations and general organizational skills where Crowton wasn't as strong.
BYU is a job where only a superior head coach is going to succeed and Crowton wasn't a superior head coach. I still think he could go be a head coach of another Louisiana Tech type of school and bring them out of obscurity to have some good success.
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