Matt Piper did a story on Stanford assistant Lance Anderson (who was considered an outside candidate for BYU’s opening last winter) who acts as the team’s chief recruiter in Utah. But this story takes a dive from the Cardinal perspective, noting that it wasn’t long ago when Stanford was not welcome ground for Mormons:
The fact that a Mormon conversion took place on a secular college campus in the middle of Silicon Valley might seem surprising. There was a time in 1970 when Stanford refused to schedule games against BYU in protest of what some considered the university’s institutional racism.