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Dick Harmon: BYU's director of football recruiting: 'Smother them with love'

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Kalani and I think alike as far as recruiting. His philosophy is to just love the kids. And that’s been a focus of the staff, that if we love them, they will love us back, and it will project itself on and off the field.

When Tevita Ofahengaue and Kalani Sitake were kids living in the same apartment building in Laie, Hawaii, their fathers longtime best friends, neither had any idea they’d one day be on a Division I football coaching staff together in Provo.

But in year two of Sitake’s first job as a Division I football coach at BYU, he’s depending on Ofahengaue’s expertise and connections to bolster the school’s unique recruiting efforts coast to coast as his director of recruiting operations.