And Kalani didn't reach out to him for a while. Says they initially spoke a week ago. Not that it matters - it's just interesting to hear some details on how these things go down, because so often we don't learn anything. Seems from the article that Tom Holmoe was probably his main contact. Interesting that he also talked to a lot of former staff members as well to reach a decision.

"Well, this was not a job that I pursued quite honestly. I didn’t have to ask anybody to make a call for me or anything. There were just so many people that I know in and around the program that immediately went to work behind the scenes for me, recommended me for the job. It gained a little bit of steam.

I know (BYU head coach) Kalani (Sitake) a little bit, but I don’t know him well, but I know a bunch of people who do know him well. I think what happened is there were a bunch of people who talked to him about me. That started soon after he made the change there (firing OC Ty Detmer), but I didn’t talk to Kalani for a while.

I’m old school in my approach: I’m never going to talk to anybody until they’re going to talk to my boss. I told the people who reached out to me that Kalani needed to do that, and I’m sure he would have anyway. It took a couple of days just to get the two of them to hook up, and I was going different places recruiting and so was he. That took a couple more days. Took a little while before we talked. Maybe we started talking a week ago or something like that. Can’t remember exactly when."