From Deseret News archives:
BYU football: Afutiti ends juco red tape
It's a place juco players on their way to a Division I programs find themselves in summertime. It features missing transcripts, absent community college personnel on vacations, backup workers unable to function, phones that ring without human voices on the other end, professors that haven't posted grades or filed final papers, closed doors and an endless chain of frustration.
Bernard found a way to cut through all the tape and spent his first week in BYU's football camp after missing the initial week of two a days.
He's lucky. His teammate at Mount San Antonio, Utah-bound All-America receiver Aiona Key, has missed his second week of Kyle Whittingham's camp, and inquiries about his status, just like Afutiti that first week in Provo, are becoming a soap opera.
A third Afutiti teammate, Kevin Craft, is already vying for a starting spot at UCLA after Ben Olson injured his foot more than a week ago.
So, what gives?
Afutiti, who had scholarship offers from USC, Oregon State, Arizona State, Michigan, UTEP and Ohio State, came to Provo this summer with his wife Crystal and son Zak. He soon found that his papers from Mount San Antonio Community College didn't follow him.
Just before BYU's camp started, Afutiti decided he'd had enough and he'd do something about it.
Actually, he confesses, like many men, his wife decided to push him to do something about it go get in some faces.
"It was very frustrating, actually," said Afutiti, who had USC chasing him to the wire on signing day for his ability to get after quarterbacks. If you were a clerk at a college, well, one can imagine.
"The biggest thing was me being there and getting in their face to get things done. They kept telling me they had to go through procedure after procedure and this person had to go through this person and I was told it was a matter of time. But just being in their face stirred things up a lot.
"To be honest with you, if I hadn't done that, I don't think I'd be here right now."
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