Update: Weber State parts ways with Mickey Mental as head football coach
Robert Casey, WSU Athletics
Weber State football head coach Mickey Mental, left, walks the sideline during the spring game Saturday, April 12, 2025, at Stewart Stadium in Ogden.UPDATE: Weber State officially announced it has “parted ways” with Mickey Mental early Monday afternoon, with Brent Myers working as interim head coach.
“We want to thank coach Mental for his efforts and the passion he put into our football program,” Weber State athletic director Tim Crompton said in a statement. “We wish him nothing but the best for him and his family in the future.”
The Mickey Mental era of Weber State football is over.
Weber State has fired Mental as head football coach, effective Monday, sources tell the Standard-Examiner. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly as of Monday morning.
The coaching staff and players were told of the decision in meetings late Monday morning.
It’s expected that longtime associate head coach Brent Myers will serve as interim head coach for the remaining two weeks of this season. The Wildcats play at Idaho State this week before concluding the 2025 season with a Nov. 22 home game against Northern Arizona.
Weber State has the third known head-coaching vacancy in FCS football.
Weber State is out to a 3-7 record this season, going 1-5 in Big Sky play after winning its two FCS nonconference games. The Wildcats just returned from a road trip to No. 3 Montana State, a 66-14 loss that entered the record book’s short list of worst defeats to FCS opponents in program history.
Mental coached the Wildcats to a 13-20 record in two-plus seasons, with an 8-14 mark in Big Sky play. That includes a 3-8 record in home conference games and a 2-10 mark in the last 12 Big Sky contests.
The Wildcats have dealt with a catastrophic number of season-ending injuries this season, especially on the offensive side of the ball, including the top two quarterbacks and running backs. In 2024, WSU averaged scoring 28.3 points and allowed 27.8 but, through 10 games in 2025, the Wildcats average 22.6 points per game while allowing 40.1.
Mental, a native of Ohio, was in the third year of a four-year contract, which he signed in December 2022. The one-year offensive coordinator and former Division II head coach took over the lead job on the departure of Jay Hill, the program’s most successful head coach who left after nine years to become associate head coach and defensive coordinator at BYU.
Mental was the 11th head football coach in Weber State’s Division I era, which began in 1962.
