Mendenhall addresses Chambers' ESPN.com interview

Among the many questions Bronco Mendenhall fielded after Thursday morning’s practice was one about the controversial ESPN.com article on O’Neill Chambers that came out Wednesday.
In the article, Chambers said, among other things, that there were some returning players who shouldn’t be on BYU’s team.
Mendenhall addressed the issue with his team prior to practice, but not with Chambers individually.
Here’s what Mendenhall said about Chambers’ comments:
“I viewed it as a program failure, really. When I consider the young men that we bring, no matter how much we’ve educated them prior to the recruiting process, to say that they’re prepared for the type of interviews they get, for the attention and for the emotion and energy, I can do a much better job as the head coach of preparing these young men and helping them make the transition from ‘me’ to ‘we.’
“Recruiting is all about the individual. Most of our young men here have the advantage of being raised in two-parent homes, many in the LDS faith and some following BYU football their entire lives, and know exactly how I run the program. There are some that in those moments say those things they shouldn’t have said. So it was a teachable moment for that young men and our team. We leveraged this morning in terms of how to approach it. Will there be other mistakes? Probably. Do I think he’s the right young man and sincerely wants to be here for the right reasons? I do. The best words are from ‘me’ to ‘we’.”
Mendenhall said he didn’t read the article. Somebody e-mailed it to him. “I assumed it wasn’t positive because nobody ever e-mails me if it’s an article I don’t need to read.”
Did Chambers feel bad about what he had said?
“I haven’t asked him about it. I would be shocked if he didn’t,” Mendenhall said. “But I addressed it in a team setting and that’s all I intend to do. I think the point’s been made.”