"We had a meltdown, for a couple of reasons," Evelyn Martinez said. "I told Patrick, 'You gotta stop this, it is not going to work. Mostly, we were just concerned that Kyle's dreams would interfere with Shea's dreams, and vice versa."
Shane, who retired last fall after 36 years at BYU, tried to calm their fears.
"He had Kyle over for dinner, and he called us up and said, 'You need to re-evaluate, he's a really good kid,'" Evelyn said.
But the daycare teacher and her husband, a self-employed rain gutter installer, became more skeptical went they took the young couple out to dinner in Provo and BYU basketball fans continually interrupted their meal to ask Collinsworth for his autograph or a picture.