Oct 20, 2021
11:14:23am
11:14:23am
Mike Smith has to be in the conversation. A HS Parade All-American in 3 sports,
basketball, football, and volleyball, he could have gone to any D-1 school he wanted and been a star in any of the three sports.
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Smith, who was a high school All-America in both football and basketball at Los Altos, chose BYU over hundreds of other schools. ''Everybody in America wanted Mike,'' says Reid. ''To be quite honest, if he hadn't been an LDS ((Latter-day Saints)) person, we would never have gotten him.'' One of the most ardent suitors was Notre Dame's Digger Phelps, whose first words to Smith during his recruiting visit to Hacienda Heights were, ''I always wanted to coach a Jew, but I never thought I'd get a Mormon.'' He didn't.
The football teams Smith quarterbacked at Los Altos lost only one game in his four years there, and in his senior season he completed
252 of 383 passes for 3,437 yards and 40 touchdowns to lead the Conquerors to a 14-0 record and the championship of Southern
California. He twice led Los Altos to the Southern California semifinals in volleyball. And if he had not injured his hip by falling through an open sewer grate as he was leaving a church function (of course) on the eve of the basketball quarterfinals, he might very well have carried the Conquerors to that championship. When it came time to decide * which athletic talent he would employ in college — the choice that was left open to him when he was recruited by BYU — he opted for his first passion. ''I've played basketball since I was five,'' he says. ''I've loved it all my life.''
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Smith, who was a high school All-America in both football and basketball at Los Altos, chose BYU over hundreds of other schools. ''Everybody in America wanted Mike,'' says Reid. ''To be quite honest, if he hadn't been an LDS ((Latter-day Saints)) person, we would never have gotten him.'' One of the most ardent suitors was Notre Dame's Digger Phelps, whose first words to Smith during his recruiting visit to Hacienda Heights were, ''I always wanted to coach a Jew, but I never thought I'd get a Mormon.'' He didn't.
The football teams Smith quarterbacked at Los Altos lost only one game in his four years there, and in his senior season he completed
252 of 383 passes for 3,437 yards and 40 touchdowns to lead the Conquerors to a 14-0 record and the championship of Southern
California. He twice led Los Altos to the Southern California semifinals in volleyball. And if he had not injured his hip by falling through an open sewer grate as he was leaving a church function (of course) on the eve of the basketball quarterfinals, he might very well have carried the Conquerors to that championship. When it came time to decide * which athletic talent he would employ in college — the choice that was left open to him when he was recruited by BYU — he opted for his first passion. ''I've played basketball since I was five,'' he says. ''I've loved it all my life.''
Originally posted on Oct 20, 2021 at 11:14:23am
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