Busby joined the football program in 1996 and served as an administrative assistant to coach LaVell Edwards for five years. In 2001, he was named the director of football operations at BYU.
He was born and raised in Arizona and attended Northern Arizona University and later received a B.A. in English in 1984 from Arizona State.
He spent five years as the equipment manager and video coordinator at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. Busby taught at Madison High in Rexburg, Idaho, where he was a football and basketball assistant coach. Busby was an assistant to Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt and was managing editor of The Wickenburg Sun.