Bronco Mendenhall and family are currently living in an RV
New Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall’s house is being renovated. So the coach and his family currently have an unconventional living arrangement.
The former BYU coach is currently living in an RV with his wife and three teenage children. And former Virginia quarterback and current assistant coach Marques Hagans helped get them the RV. Hagans drove Mendenhall to the dealership in Richmond, Virginia, so the coach could drive the RV back to Charlottesville.
He parked the RV on the property of their future home in Ivy, Virginia. (They’re having the property completely renovated, which was slated to take five months.) So for now, accommodations are these: small kitchen; a master suite with a bed and bathroom that features a shower the size of a broom closet, a small toilet (you have to sit sideways to use it) and a mirror; a cramped loft with one bed in it; and two bunk beds that come down above the fifth wheel.
“You’d never think a head coach of a Division I program would be living in an RV and truly enjoying it,” Hagans said. “But that’s what separates him.”
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The story gets even better too (and is worth a read in full). An RV doesn’t exactly have the best bathroom accommodations to begin with. And the family doesn’t know how to work the hot water heater. So a bathroom has been kept usable in the house while it’s being remodeled.
“You trek across the property,” Bronco said. “I walked across one night in just my underwear, but no one’s out there. … When that room is targeted for demolition, we hope the hot water’s working in the RV by then.”
Mendenhall was hired by the school in December to replace former coach Mike London.
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