Utah State is anticipated to rent New Mexico‘s Bronco Mendenhall as its subsequent soccer coach, sources instructed ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Thursday.
Mendenhall simply completed his first season with the Lobos, guiding them to a 5-7 general document and a 3-4 mark within the Mountain West — the identical convention document as Utah State.
He has deep ties to Utah, having served because the coach at BYU from 2005 to ’15. He led the Cougars to 11 consecutive bowl video games and 5 seasons of 10 or extra wins.
He left BYU in late 2015 to take over at Virginia, which he constructed right into a contender within the ACC, together with a 9-5 Orange Bowl season in 2019, earlier than he stepped down after the 2021 season.
After two years off, he was named New Mexico’s coach, taking on a program that hadn’t gained greater than 4 video games since 2016. But that modified this yr, the spotlight being a 38-35 win over then-No. 18 Washington State that saved the Lobos’ bowl hopes alive getting into their closing regular-season recreation. But these hopes ended with a loss to Hawaii.
Overall, Mendenhall is 145-95 over 19 years as a head coach on the three colleges.
Utah State went 4-8 general this season underneath interim coach Nate Dreiling, who took over after Blake Anderson was fired in July. The Aggies will go away the Mountain West for the Pac-12 beginning within the 2026 season.
