Bronco Mendenhall is back coaching at New Mexico, and college football is better for it

Maybe it was two years away from the game, or two years building and living on his rural ranch with his wife and fellow-empty nester Holly, or maybe it was just the fresh Montana air. Whatever it was, Bronco Mendenhall found a clear vision of who he is after the former BYU and Virginia head coach stepped away from college football. Mendenhall wasn't done, the first-year New Mexico head coach explained at Mountain West media days.