The grass always appears greener on Mark Weber’s side of the fence.

Weber, the Hawaii football team’s offensive line coach, is a self-proclaimed “yard guy.” He credits his wife, Kathy, as a combination interior decorator and carpenter.

At each stop during his 38-year coaching career, Weber said, “My wife always looked for a house she could make into a home.” Weber, who grew up modestly in California’s San Fernando Valley, said every house stylized by his wife “is the best I’ve ever had.”

A favorite is a house they purchased in Utah in 2007, when Weber was hired to coach the Brigham Young football team’s offensive line. “I bought that house at the wrong time,” Weber said. “The market was just at the peak, and then it dropped.”

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The house featured a spacious outdoor area in the back that was set on an incline. The Webers chiseled it into tiers. There were decorative boulders, and a fire pit built into a retaining wall. A patio was constructed. “The deer came down to our fence,” Weber remembered. “It was awesome. There was nothing behind us. We had great neighbors, a great neighborhood.”

They rented out the house when Weber, after seven years at BYU, accepted the job as Utah State’s associate head coach, and then in 2016, when he coached at Fresno State for a season. They moved back into the house in 2017. After Weber was hired at UH in 2018, the couple began the process of putting the house on the market. This past summer, the sale was finalized, ending their ties to Provo, Utah.

But the past and present are merging as UH prepares to play BYU in the SoFi Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve. The matchup has triggered Weber’s fond memories of being on the BYU staff and living in Provo.

“It was a great coaching job,” Weber said. “Bronco (Mendenhall) is a great head coach. We had great men who I worked with. And the players? They were awesome.”

The Mormon church administers BYU. “Half my guys were married,” Weber said. “At one time, I think, my whole starting offensive line was married. Those guys had kids. It was an interesting culture and environment. Great quality of life.”

Weber said Mendenhall, now head coach at Virginia, had a family-first approach. “At the time, we practiced in the afternoon,” Weber said. “I could have been home for dinner every night. We didn’t work on Sundays. We were ranked in the top 25 in a lot of years. We won nine, 10, 11 games when I was there. Won a Mountain West championship when TCU and Utah were in (the MWC). It was an awesome place. I had a lot of great friends.”

Weber is enjoying his time with the Warriors, where he has transformed an offensive line that barely had enough blockers for the 2018 spring scrimmage to a unit that is three-deep at every position.

And his wife still is making home improvements. “She fixed our apartment out here,” Weber said, “and now she’s working on another apartment. That’s her passion.”