Provo • Former legendary BYU coach LaVell Edwards will be memorialized often in 2017 following his death at the age of 86 last December.
Patches bearing Edwards’ likeness with the block letters “LAVELL” will adorn players’ jerseys and coaches’ shirt sleeves, and several other tributes are planned for the man who put BYU football on the map.
It is entirely fitting that one of Edwards’ former players, current coach Kalani Sitake, is using one of his mentor’s favorite lines to describe BYU’s prospects in 2017. “I really look forward to the season, and like LaVell would say, ‘I think we have a chance to be pretty good,’ ” Sitake said.