Stuart Roach

Enjoy playing sports and spending time with family

[WizardsMuse @WizardsMuse1]

AJ DYBANTSA POSTER 😤😳

[Fran Fraschilla @franfraschilla]

People criticized @AJ_Dybantsa decision to attend @BYUMBB instead of a blueblood. What did he get out of it?
1. An NBA-experienced head coach who’s coached Booker, KD, etc.
2. NBA player development.
3. NBA strength coach.
4. NBA nutritionist.
5. NBA analytics.
6. Sold out 18,000 seat arena.
7. @Big12Conference comp that will produce up to 15 draft picks Tuesday/Wednesday
8. Played in 4 NBA arenas.
9. NIL bonanza & endorsements.
Any questions?

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@CriddleBenjamin Hope so

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@BTheBaylorFan1 @On3 @GoodmanHoops Rob improved in every major statistical category at BYU by a lot. How do you define development?

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@Travis1 Utah in the same tier as Huston lets me know this isn’t serious. Utah should be in the basement, more Utah fans show up to women’s gymnastics than their bball team.

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@CriddleBenjamin Couple freshmen on that list that have the physical tools to emerge!

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@BlueDevilJunkie @SCNext @SportsCenter So good

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@ParkerKingston @chase_roberts11 Great season Parker!

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

How I would fix the College Football Playoff.

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

Welcome to the Family, @ryderly0ns 🤙

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@B1OBEY0ND Brutal year

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@CFBONFOX BYU

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@Strootles @KFordRatings What the other guy said, but as a BYU fan I’d rather play us than you in the playoffs 😂. Hope we can both make it…

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@espn @TheUCReport A freshman qb whos gone 9-1 with the 15th highest qbr in the country should be first on this list. Way more impressive than a wr who ranks 50th in the country in yards.

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@AEHiltonIII @KFordRatings Interesting take. BYU has been the underdog four times this season and still sits at 9–1 for the 2nd year in a row. That kind of consistency isn’t luck—it’s a trend that will continue.Maybe that argument worked a few years ago, but at this point, the results speak for themselves.

[Shehan Jeyarajah @ShehanJeyarajah]

He could dribble a basketball at 2 and inhaled mountains of rice and eggs.

He was compared to a “got dang centaur,” and he spends Sundays playing music for the elderly.

This is the legend of Bear Bachmeier, and the “crazy” family that made him.

https://t.co/WhvyeX3TQo

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@DocLanceP @BleacherReport Don’t think he specified, just that multiple schools met their minimum NIL requirements, he said AJ picked based on fit and coaching. He later said BYU wasn’t the highest offer…

[Stuart Roach @StuartRoach]

@DocLanceP @BleacherReport BYU wasn’t the highest offer. His dad has mentioned that in multiple interviews