Fatherhood and Family Forge My Path: BYU Coach Kevin Young on the Passions That Shape Him

Fatherhood and Family Forge My Path: BYU Coach Kevin Young on the Passions That Shape Him

The sticky notes were the idea of Kevin Young’s mother-in-law, Tammy Bailey. She handed them out a few months ago, and encouraged family members to write “cool thoughts and words of encouragement” for others on them and leave them around the house. Young’s three children — 12-year-old Jude, 10-year-old Van and 7-year-old Zoey — took their grandmother’s directive to heart. Young’s BYU basketball team was struggling a bit when it hit Big 12 play in January, losing badly at Houston and starting 1-3 in conference games and looking nothing like the NCAA Tournament team it would become. The morning before one important home game, Young got in his car and noticed a sticky note attached to his steering wheel, written by one of his sons. “Let’s get this win tonight, dad,” the note read, followed by the word “PROvo,” a reminder that Young promised in his introductory news conference last year that he would establish BYU as a pipeline to the NBA. The Cougars lost that game, Youn…