BYU deployed a full-court press to protect its football program this week, concluding with an extension of the contract of head football coach Kalani Sitake after Penn State tried to lure him away with a pot of Big Ten gold.

Sitake began informing key people around him late Tuesday that he would remain at BYU despite serious targeting by the Nittany Lions the past week.

This decision comes at a critical time, the week to prepare for the Big 12 championship game, a rematch with Texas Tech in Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

As NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young told Dan Patrick on Tuesday, “They’ll have to rip him from our bloody hands.”

And that’s what transpired the past 48 hours.

BYU alumni and boosters went to war to keep their popular football coach.

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