A little after 2 p.m. MST on Tuesday, as BYU football players began to trickle into the Student Athlete Building to get dressed for their 3 p.m. practice at the Indoor Practice Facility on campus, word began to trickle out that head coach Kalani Sitake was spurning college football blue blood Penn State and staying in Provo.

The hurrahs and collective sighs of relief from BYU sports fans worldwide — expressed throughout social media and even to Sitake personally — gushed out like an Old Faithful eruption from all corners of the globe, a sign of just how beloved this 50-year-old man of Tongan descent is at this faith-based school.

A BYU student even made a sign begging Sitake to stay, and camped out at the coach’s parking spot on campus to make sure he saw it.

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