Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
PROVO — BYU’s football program drew widespread national attention on National Letter of Intent Day 2015 by signing a recruit that nobody had ever heard of — and happened to be listed at 6-foot-7, 410 pounds.
That recruit, Motekiai (Mo) Langi, hailed from Liahona, Tonga, and had never played football before. On top of that, he was departing for a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Then-Cougar head coach Bronco Mendenhall offered Langi a scholarship just 15 minutes after meeting him just a little more than a week before Signing Day.