More than 30 years later, former Ute football star Scott Mitchell says prayer led him to choose Utah over BYU.
The record-setting quarterback, and LDS Church member, recently said in a phone interview that, as a relative of legendary coach LaVell Edwards, he always planned on attending BYU.
“When I was being recruited in high school, I always thought I was going to BYU,” he said. “I was born and bred to go to BYU. There was no reason on earth I shouldn’t have gone to BYU.”
Mitchell said that day in 1987 he “went in my room and prayed about it.