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Analysis: With Kevin Young hire, BYU signals intent to play with big boys
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BYU's latest men's basketball head coach isn't a traditional hire in Cougar athletics. But this isn't a traditional BYU athletic department anymore.

<p>PROVO — Danny Ainge tried to hire Kevin Young for close to a decade, but it took a strong pitch from Ainge's alma mater to finally snag the NBA's highest paid assistant&#x

</p><p>If the hire seems outside-the-box for the flagship men's basketball program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that's because it is for the first BYU hoops hire

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