After seven years as an assistant coach under Mark Pope, BYU assistant Chris Burgess will take an assistant head coach position at Utah, his alma mater. The Salt Lake Tribune was the first to report the story and multiple sources confirmed the news to me Tuesday night.
Burgess was an assistant under Pope during his four years at UVU and three years at BYU. He played at Utah in the early 2000s after transferring from Duke. His oldest daughter is a volleyball player at the University of Utah.
Sources close to the situation told me that he will be the top assistant at Utah, something that wasn’t clear cut at BYU.