Source: www.deseretnews.com --- Monday, February 29, 2016
PROVO — It’s been 25 years, if you can believe it, since Ty Detmer spent his days hanging around the Football office at BYU. He was a regular fixture from 1987-91, almost as omnipresent as Shirley Johnson, the office secretary, LaVell Edwards’ gatekeeper and surrogate mom to anyone and everyone playing on the Football team. Shirley’s retired now, as is LaVell, and who knows what happened to the couches the players sat on, napped on, spilled food on and pretended to study on whenever they weren’t in class or on the field. Everything’s changed now, of course. LaVell’s old office in the Smith Fieldhouse is occupied by women’s basketball. Football’s headquarters are across the parking lot in a structure that didn’t exist in Ty’s time, the Student Athlete Building, where it commands the entire second floor, above Legends Grille and Legacy Hall. Detmer’s as responsible as anyone for the gigantic sports makeover at BYU. That’s his jersey hanging in his very own Legacy Hall trophy case, alongside those belonging to McMahon, Young, Bosco, Sheide, Nielsen, Wilson and all the rest. His Heisman Trophy is the first thing you see when you walk in the door. The building will topple over before they stop talking about the 1990 season when he won the Heisman, a year that began with BYU’s greatest home win in history — 28-21 over top-ranked and defending national champion Miami with Detmer passing for 406 yards and three touchdowns. By the time th ...
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