![]() Sounds like his fandom might be planted in the real dirt of numbers and computation, if that dirt is actually real, enough so that an NFL team wanted to hire him away from BYU to better its cause on the field. He didn’t seem to want to accept that response.īut Reese appears to be different. Wiping tears away at the loss of my friend, I simply waved and said, “Sorry, not a fan. ![]() Merrill Bateman, who was the school’s president from 1996 to 2003, once chased me down walking to his car, which happened to be parked in front of my house for a funeral for a mutual friend at a nearby church, yelling to me, “Hey, Gordon, when are we going to convince you to be a fan of the Cooouuuuuggggaaaarrrrsss?” I swear, that’s how he said it. Many past BYU presidents have been emotional fans. Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid, when he coached in Philadelphia, relied on Reese’s acumen to help the Eagles in chasing victory, analyzing plays, players, coaches’ decisions, strategies.īYU football coaches, players and fans probably couldn’t be happier with this new appointment.Ī university president who is a fan can be a great boon to a football program. He’s previously helped BYU in its attempt to win football games, breaking down statistical information to do so, according to a report in the Deseret News. ![]() Even better, Reese headed the school’s Committee on Race, Equity and Belonging, which determined - correctly so - that BYU needed to address and get rid of every kind of racism. Now, that’s the kind of university poo-bah Kalani Sitake can get behind. Get this: Reese is a BYU vice president and statistics professor, a man who Holland said once turned down a front-office job with the Philadelphia Eagles. ![]() He was announced by church leader Jeffrey Holland as BYU’s incoming president on Tuesday at a school devotional, the move effective on May 1. ![]()
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