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Dick Harmon: Longtime high school coach Golden Holt can relate to losses by coaches like BYU's Dave Rose

Jacob Wiegand, Deseret News

Orem head coach Golden Holt speaks to the team following a 71-56 victory against Desert Hills in the Class 4A state quarterfinals at Utah Valley University in Orem on Thursday, March 1, 2018.

OREM — Golden Holt retired as Orem High’s basketball coach this past month. As a coach, in the realm of a teacher and mentor, he can relate to what BYU coach Dave Rose went through in Las Vegas as the Cougars lost to San Diego in disastrous fashion last week.

It isn’t from a perspective that he is Dave Rose.