Ted Tollner was BYU’s QB coach 3 years earlier

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Jan 4, 2024
7:23:07am

donnerstag All-American

2 years after that he was USC’s head coach. The team that beat Washington. The Lavell coaching tree was crazy.

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Sean Salisbury and the BYU 1984 NC

Dan

Jan 4, 12:17am

That’s a great post! Isn’t Sean in Houston now? Doing radio?

Mathew

Jan 4, 12:24am

Posts like this help explain why being a sports reporter in Utah is so hard. CB has some content that is hard to beat.

HarlemCoug

Jan 4, 12:28am

It’s actually easy. All you have to do is create fake outrage anti BYU stuff and

Ojiisan

Jan 4, 7:13am

Sports reporters actually get most of their content from CB though.

ochobeeguy

Jan 4, 9:50am

Mel Kiper helped BYU's QB pipeline too.

ManicBlue

Jan 4, 12:47am

Koy Detmer was also a consideration to be the QB in that era

donnerstag

Jan 4, 1:52am

Mel Kiper alone wasn't why John Walsh left.

Jeffacka

Jan 4, 5:37am

Of course not.

ManicBlue

Jan 4, 9:24am

And Shaun Salisbury is not the only reason USC beat Washington…or the reason…

ochobeeguy

Jan 4, 9:52am

IIRC, John Walsh was friends with Steve Sarkisian and helped recruit him to take his place. That is just my vague memory

PJMort

Jan 4, 12:33pm

That is correct.

Jeffacka

Jan 4, 12:50pm

Love it!

LateToTheGame

Jan 4, 2:04am

I was in the same Ward with Sean his senior year at Orange Glen H.S.

Norge Coug

Jan 4, 4:22am

Orange Glen in Escondido? If so, that’s crazy I didn’t realize that Kozlowski and Salisbury played HS football there.

SingleStrapBackpack

Jan 4, 7:05am

Yep, that was my HS. Koz played at Carlsbad, IIRC

Dan

Jan 4, 7:59am

Glen did indeed go to Carlsbad high.

Norge Coug

Jan 4, 10:55am

Went to a game at CHS several years ago, he was still on the Lancer Wall of Fame

cosmohio

Jan 4, 12:23pm

FYI, he was injured and out almost the entire 1984 season. He was a great one,

BigD Coug

Jan 4, 4:25am

Yep. Tim Green was the QB for USC.

Malathion

Jan 4, 6:23am

Ted Tollner was BYU’s QB coach 3 years earlier

donnerstag

Jan 4, 7:23am

So he wasn’t the one to beat Washington? Dang not as cool but rest of the post

ColonelMustard

Jan 4, 1:45pm

As a newly returned missionary in the 1987-88 school year

TripleCrownCoug

Jan 4, 4:12pm

Plus his younger brother was at BYU at that point

Dan

Jan 4, 4:18pm

Good point. I was on my mission in '86 and wasn't really aware of his brother

TripleCrownCoug

Jan 4, 4:24pm

Wow! Great inside story. Thanks for posting!

DawgHaus

Jan 4, 4:25am

There’s more story than that. Had a solid career with ESPN that ended badly.

bruincoug

Jan 4, 4:51am

What happened with ESPN? Never have heard this story.

DawgHaus

Jan 4, 6:05am

It’s on his Wikipedia page.

Black Sunshine

Jan 4, 6:20am

He was in the bishopric in my ward when that whole thing went down.

WhirleyPop

Jan 4, 6:07am

Wow. Brave man to admit his mistake. We should remember we all make them.

BleedCougarBlue2

Jan 4, 9:21am

From his picture on his LinkedIn page, I'm guessing he is still working though

Parker Schnabel

Jan 4, 11:04am

So glad you were unable to let this pass after so many years. Bravo.

ledfoot

Jan 4, 10:39am

RE: Sean Salisbury and the BYU 1984 NC

Black Sunshine

Jan 4, 5:12am

I was not going to bring this up ...

Dan

Jan 4, 10:45am

This guy?

Parker Schnabel

Jan 4, 11:12am

Yes, that is him. But search for "Brett Salisbury model" or something like that.

Dan

Jan 4, 11:33am

Not enough suspense or cliff hanging to pull off a great Paul Harvey moment

BYUFam1

Jan 4, 5:59am

I wasn’t thinking Paul Harvey at all until I was done …

Dan

Jan 4, 8:36am

Wow had no idea he had any connection to byu or the church

DanSmith

Jan 4, 6:41am

He was the cohost of Extra Sports 690 talk show in the late 90s (Southern California). He would occasionally talk about

SaturdaySpecialDay

Jan 4, 7:07am

I used to listen to XTRA like crazy back then. Surprised I don't remember Salisbury. I do remember hearing Jim Rome for

SingleStrapBackpack

Jan 4, 7:27am

I think the John Fricke + Sean Salisbury show was the early show, maybe 7-9am, then Rome came on. I used to listen

SaturdaySpecialDay

Jan 4, 8:20am

I guess that makes sense. I was still in HS so I was an afternoon/weekend listener.

SingleStrapBackpack

Jan 4, 9:06am

thumbs up for the Paul Harvey reference.

Avery

Jan 4, 7:49am

I am old enough to remember all of this.

Y-ohCoug

Jan 4, 8:23am

Should have fired LaVell for not signing Salisbury.

Parker Schnabel

Jan 4, 8:27am

I am sure that if this happened today there would be multiple posters screaming

Y-ohCoug

Jan 4, 9:27am

LOL the thumbs down.

ochobeeguy

Jan 4, 9:57am

We were all (local members) sort of shocked he did not choose BYU

Dan

Jan 4, 8:41am

Brett (90% sure it was him) also had an open thumb dislocation from the follow

HoustonCougar

Jan 4, 9:39am

Covey was very good. Concussions doomed him.

Cougarbib

Jan 4, 10:40am

Covey was meh, at best. Detmer was clearly. The student section chanted

88Coug

Jan 4, 10:53am

There was no student section back then. Student tickets were sprinkled around.

Dan

Jan 4, 10:56am

There was rotating student sections, 3 areas — east bleachers, north and south.

88Coug

Jan 4, 11:10am

Regardless. Covey was good before concussions took their toll. I did not

Cougarbib

Jan 4, 11:25am

Ty threw 4 INTs vs Wyoming in his first game because the O line could

88Coug

Jan 4, 12:13pm

U keep basing your opinion of Covey on his play after multiple concussions. He

Cougarbib

Jan 4, 3:57pm

This is not correct. Covey was ok. The gap in ability was immense

HoustonCougar

Jan 4, 2:25pm

The gap was immense when comparing Covey post concussion to Ty Detmer

Cougarbib

Jan 4, 4:00pm

I remember seeing Sean in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd…

truecougster

Jan 4, 10:49am

That’s fascinating! I just want to add that I went on my honeymoon

Ten_Hour_Drives

Jan 4, 11:37am

One of them is in the benchwarmers too.

Icelandic Cougar

Jan 4, 11:58am

Perspective! Love this...

UnhealthyAddiction

Jan 4, 12:16pm

Bosco joined the team in 83. Young's second year. So just Bosco affected

Bobmarleyjr

Jan 4, 1:06pm

No, 1983 was the first season he tallied any stats. He joind BYU in 1981.

Dan

Jan 4, 1:16pm

This. Bosco was a junior when 1984 rolled around. Go some stats as a soph in 83.

Cougarbib

Jan 4, 4:01pm

I know Sean. Great dude and was decent at hoops as well.

Swishfromdeep3

Jan 4, 3:27pm

2nd hand...Salibury was a friend of a friend and he and Steve Young rooomed

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