During his last three years at BYU.

Dave Rose has averaged 25.4 wins per season. He has the highest winning percentage of any BYU basketball coach ever, and one of the highest winning percentages among all active college basketball coaches.

In his 13 years at BYU, he has never failed to earn a post season berth, including 8 NCAA tournament bids, and an appearance in the sweet sixteen. He’s coached a national player of the year, and finished as high as 13th in the National rankings.

It’s astonishing to me that BYU fans think somebody is going to just walk in here and improve on these results. BYU has been far more competitive than it has any business being during the Rose era.

BYU is what it is, man. Nobody is going to coach BYU basketball to regular sweet 16 appearances and consistent top 25 rankings. We simply don’t have the demographics within the church to pull that off.

We may be hitting our ceiling as a program, but that ceiling isn’t a result of Dave Rose’s coaching abilities. It is due to the fact that BYU is an ultra orthodox religious school, with an incredibly restrictive honor code, located in the middle of a cold weather mountain state, who’s parent church has a fairly recent history of what the mainstream perceives as institutionalized racism against blacks. Because of these things, our recruiting pool for basketball is incredible shallow. And because all of our head coaches must be active LDS, our coaching pool is even shallower.

BYU basketball has been better under Dave Rose than it has ever been. This isn’t Dave Rose’s best team, but there are reasons for that which have nothing to do with his coaching abilities.