It seemed like a normal Australian day. Chris Collinsworth and David Ferguson were on there way home from church work as they spotted a large clock on the wall—8:30.
They continued walking through southwest Sydney looking around through the dark at the decay just thinking about all the violence and poverty and how they would give anything to make things better.
Collinsworth and Ferguson had little idea they were about to get in a fight for their lives.
Three men jumped them, one armed with a knife. Collinsworth and Ferguson managed to fight the two unarmed assailants off long enough for a passing-by car to scare off their attackers. But not before both men were stabbed multiple times.
But that has been forgotten by now. Ferguson stayed in Australia to finish his missionary work, and Collinsworth returned back to the BYU campus due to his injuries. David came back safe a few months later after finishing his work.
That was enough tragedy for such a saintly school.
An attack on a coach’s player seems like a once-in-a-lifetime moment. But more than a year later, coach Dave Rose’s life turned upside down once again.
Doctors told him that he had pancreatic cancer.
When Dave Rose took over the Cougars' basketball team in 2005, he was one of 40 coaching changes that off-season. His hiring was lost behind bigger programs' (Virginia, Tennessee, and Purdue) coaching changes
Out of those 40 new coaches, he has had the best winning percentage (.740) and the second-most wins (97).
He has put together the most talented BYU teams since the 1979 and 1980 teams led by Danny Ainge, the all-time Cougar leader in points.
He strives for perfection but does not have the same questionable recruiting methods that other big programs have. He does not let the pressure of winning change his morals.
He also led BYU to their first back-to-back Top 25 seasons since 1980-1982.
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