No wonder he speaks of "a crazy path" to becoming BYU's coach. That cold, lonely walk through the school grounds — "wondering what in the world am I doing in Manti, Utah, out in the snow, with my team playing in there," as he laughingly recounted — is a snapshot of his three years at Millard, a much smaller school than most other members of Class 2A in those days.
At 25, Rose started his first teaching and coaching job only a few months after playing for one of the most famous teams in college basketball history, the 1982-83 "Phi Slama Jama" club of Houston that lost to North Carolina State in the NCAA championship game.