BYU will face one of its own as the Cougars take on Texas and Steve Sarkisian. What did 'Sark' take from his time with BYU legend LaVell Edwards?
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, center, joins his team for the school song following their win over Baylor in an NCAA college football game in Austin, Texas, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022.
By the end of the meeting, everyone — including future NFL players like Lewis, Shay Muirbrook and Tim McTyer — was spent. But before they left, quarterback Steve Sarkisian had one more thing to say. In college football circles, Sarkisian is a household name as the head coach of No. 7 Texas. His journey from Washington to USC, subsequent struggles with alcohol, and his rebound at Alabama have been well-documented.
When it came time to transfer, he didn’t have strong ties to Provo. The Cougars weren’t even sure if they needed a quarterback. The starter at the time, John Walsh, still had another year of eligibility left. “I’ve known him when we were nobodies,” Sitake, now BYU’s head coach, said. “...I don’t think he came because of the host. We went, hung out, and played ping pong or whatever.”
Slowly he found his niche. McGuire and Sarkisian wore out Provo waterparks, trying to find a balance. On the field he got more comfortable merging his talent with Edwards’ system. “And I’ll never forget coach Edwards looking at me and saying, ‘Sark what do you want to run? I referenced the play I wanted to run and he turned around and said, ‘Alright, we’re running the play I just referenced.’... He believed in what I was able to do.”
“He said, ‘The two people I respect the most in life are Catholic priests and Mormon missionaries,” Lewis remembered. “That stood out, like, Wow, bro. That’s not a typical thing a quarterback thinks about or talks about. We had a team full of returning missionaries.”
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