Robert W. Grover
PROVO — When Tanner Mangum scrambled in the pocket, felt his foot explode, and headed for the turf against Fresno State last Saturday night, his move to get rid of the football and avoid negative yardage was kind of symbolic.
All Mangum wanted to do this season was play his best, live up to expectations, deliver wins, and try to hit the high mark set by BYU quarterbacks of yesteryear.
Time and time again this year, he’s had challenges to that dream, or as Gene Roddenberry called it: the Prime Directive.