New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope is close to claiming a win over his former school. Utah Valley is hoping for a split.
Because he values the work of Burgess and Fueger so much that he doesn’t want new UVU coach Mark Madsen, profiled here by the Deseret News, to have time to persuade them to stay at UVU. Sources say Burgess and Fueger are going through the typical lengthy interview process that all coaches at BYU must go through. That’s why it seems like the hiring process is going slowly, but isn’t.