There’s uncertainty and decisions and connections that finally — finally — led Kevin Young to the NBA, where he has spent the past eight years and has coached in the NBA Finals and an All-Star Game.

He had become the league’s highest-paid assistant and appeared to be a lock to get his own head coaching position at the pinnacle of the game.

But he says God had a different plan.

Last week Young chose instead to become the new men’s basketball coach at Brigham Young University. He will leave his job as the Phoenix Suns associate head coach at the end of team’s NBA playoffs run because he says he knows it’s right for his family and his career.

The story of how he landed at BYU needs to be clarified and amplified, including the way his contract has been mischaracterized. But in many ways the journey began in earnest in Bear, Delaware.

At congressional hearing in southern Utah, local frustration on display over fed control of land

“Insulted,” was the word Washington County Commissioner Adam Snow used when Rep. John Curtis asked how it felt for local leaders when the federal government made plans for land it controls in the county without including them.

Snow said his family settled in southern Utah in 1849, and they’ve tried to be good stewards of the land since then.

“Nobody can love this county more than I do. Some people maybe love it just as much, but nobody loves it more, I guarantee you that,” said Snow.

“And for us to be the stewards that we have, and ... the hard work that it took to make this an incredible place, then somebody can come in from Connecticut or California or somewhere else and say, ‘Trust us, you screwed it up for the last 180 years, let us tell you now how to do it,’ is insane.”

The frustration felt by Snow was echoed by the other county and state officials who testified Monday at a field hearing for the Federal Lands Subcommittee of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Read more about how state and local governments have spent almost 20 years and "millions" of dollars trying to get a 4.5-mile road approved in Washington County.

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