Provo • Several times during BYU’s recent basketball season, assistant coach Heath Schroyer marveled at how differently the program is perceived by its fans now versus the first time he was in Provo 20 years ago.
Schroyer left coach Dave Rose’s staff March 15, the day after the Cougars lost to Stanford in an NIT first-round game, to take the head coaching job at McNeese State. He previously was on Steve Cleveland’s staff at BYU from 1997-2001.
“Heath would say, ‘It is amazing. I come back to the state of Utah and you have people talking about this program like it is not going anywhere, but outside Utah, everybody is like, wow, BYU, 20-plus wins every year, in the NCAAs or NIT every year.