coach is a bad ambassador for the brand and university, or if he presides over bad scandals that tarnish the reputation of BYU or the Church, we are one of a few programs that would give ourselves the death penalty (i.e. just cancel the program outright). Self-imposed death penalty is always possible at BYU because the mission is much bigger than sports. I don't have inside info on this. I just suspect that we have less margin than most. (Although, not 0 margin, because we have survived scandals in the past.)