Articles about Coach Rose

Here are a couple of articles about Coach Rose and what a humble man he is and what a great coach he is. Lots of love for The Coach.



BYU's Rose hopes to return to Final Four

Google the words "Phi Slama Jamma" and the names "Dream" Olajuwon, "Glide" Drexler and "Silent Assassin" Young bring back memories of Houston's high-flying 1983 Final Four team.



Scroll a little farther along and the name Dave Rose appears. No adjectives, no catchy nicknames, just simple, straightforward, unassuming.



Rose, who 28 years later is trying to take the BYU Cougars to college basketball's greatest stage, probably wouldn't have it any other way.



"Coach is really soft-spoken and humble about his part on a Final Four team," said BYU assistant Dave Rice, a member of UNLV's 1990 NCAA championship team. "If guys bring it up, he'll talk about it. But it's not something he brings up very often."

For BYU coach, a cancer survivor, Final Four is goal

Dave Rose took a long pause, then another, each time fighting back tears.



"It's been a long time for our …" said the sixth-year BYU coach, unable to complete the thought.



Nearly a half hour after the Cougars beat Gonzaga 89-67 on Saturday to advance to the round of 16 for the first time in 30 years, Rose returned to the court at the Pepsi Center.



He was greeted by the BYU band, which stayed to play for the large contingent of fans that remained in the arena, refusing to quit celebrating the Cougars' deepest NCAA Tournament run since Danny Ainge famously went coast-to-coast to beat Notre Dame and advance to the Elite Eight in 1981.



Rose was overcome with emotion.



"I'm happy, really happy for them," said Rose, who attended Houston's Northbrook High School and was a member of the University of Houston's famed Phi Slama Jama. "I'm happy for our players, happy for our coaches, our administration. I mean, everybody is in this. We're all in this together."



For Rose, returning BYU to national basketball prominence has been only a small part of the journey.



Today, he has the Cougars as the No. 3 seed entering Thursday's game against second-seeded Florida in the Southeast Regional semifinals in New Orleans.



Less than two years ago, he didn't know how long he had to live.