Jake Heaps is happy to have a good story to tell. That’s the part he enjoys, after having lived through the anguish of it.
“I just wanted to take all the experiences I had,” he said, “and give it to the next group of kids.” So in camps, clinics and private coaching of quarterbacks, including sessions this summer in Utah, he’s sharing what he learned.
The tale of his college football career hardly follows the script of 2010, when he became BYU’s starting quarterback as a freshman. He lost his job by the middle of his sophomore year and eventually transferred, first to Kansas and then to Miami, concluding his college career with 5,000 passing yards and a lot of unfulfilled promise.