Back in the good ole days - Tuition was $240 per semester plus books. I got married young and had my first 2 kids while still in college but with no medical insurance. Back then doctor and hospital bills came in at just under $500 for each baby.

Rented a farm house in Midway for $35 a month. Then the commute got to me after a car wreck in Provo Canyon, so I rented a 2 bedroom basement apartment on 3rd south in Provo for $65 monthly. Then a farm house at 1168 W 500 South for $95. You could see daylight through a hole in the bathroom wall. I managed to get a Farmers Home Administration mortgage and buy a new Boise Cascade pre-fab home in Heber for $17, 500 during grad school and bum a ride to and from SLC daily from my dad's friend.

I did have to borrow an old car with expired plates my stepmother had parked out in the field when she married my dad and take our a $300 student loan to finish the last semester of graduate school. Other than that, TA, part-time weekend job, and playing in a band squeaked me through.

It is shocking what it costs students today to get the same education and start a family.

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When Gary Sheide was a senior, he led BYU to its first bowl game. You have to remember that there weren't very many bowl games in those days (1974), and it was only the fourth Fiesta Bowl, which was created to give the WAC a chance at a bowl game (in those days, it was an earier version of the MWC struggle to break into the BCS).

Sheide, a juco transfer, was a national figure in the new pass-happy offense (which was VERY innovative at the time) for the two years he started. From BYU's profile:

As a senior, he garnered accolades for leading the Cougars to a 7-4-1 season. His honors include the Sammy Baugh Trophy, Most Valuable Player in the WAC, First Team All-WAC, WAC Offensive Player of the Year and player of the week honors from the WAC, UPI and Associated Press. Sheide also led the NCAA with 388 yards passing and led the Cougars to their first bowl appearance.

I lived in Phoenix at the time and was able to get some nosebleed tickets to the game. BYU went out to a 6-0 first quarter lead against Oklahoma State and Sheide was dominating. Then everything collapsed when he went down with an injury and never returned to the game.

I forget the name of the QB who replaced him, but it was all OK state after that. The next year, Gifford Nielsen was the starter and the rest is history.

As for Virgil Carter, he was 11th in voting for the Heisman in 1966, but this was before the Lavelle Edwards era and Carter's prowess wasn't repeated by subsequent quarterbacks until Sheide began the long and glorious stretch. I saw Carter play when I was at the LTM (Lanaguage Training Mission ... predecessor to the MTC). They let us go to all the home games back then, and even gave us missionaries free tickets. I was in the LTM for most of the 1966 season, so got to see Carter a lot. Prior to that, BYU rarely won a football game, and everyone pretty much blew it off and only went to the games as something to do while waiting for basketball season.

The song goes: We had Sheide, Nielson, Wilson, and McMahon, Young, Bosco, Covey, now Ty's the new man!"

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HA HA ha. haven't heard that since about 1st grade.