Kind of. Actually he was in line to be the coach at BYU-Provo Campus but Holmoe got cold feet. Holmoe was afraid that Ken’s offense was too vanilla to keep the fanbase happy – they insist on a pass-heavy offense and Ken has a run-first, triple option offense at Navy. Holmoe buckled under the pressure and hired Sitake instead.
That fanbase is something else, man. They ran their 2nd-best coach of all time out of town (Mendenhall) and they ran off Ken before he even got the job. And there’s no doubt in my mind that Ken is a great football coach and is certainly a better head coach than Sitake is.