Big News on the BYU Football Front.
Well, I know it’s taken me a long time to come back here to write about BYU football, but can you blame me? The way the Cougars ended the season left a really bad taste in my mouth. Prior to the season I didn’t expect the Cougars to jump out to the type of start they did. I was in the mindset that they would be building up for next season. I felt that they would have continued the tradition having a good season and ending it with an 11-2 record. Even though they were one off from that, I am not to disappointed in the record, there are a lot of teams that would kill for the record the Cougars had. I am just one of the many that was caught up in the overly hyped Cougars. Are they a good team? Yes. Are they a great team? Not yet, but they have a chance to be next year.
That leads to my next reason why I chose to write today. It was announced by WR, Austin Collie, that he would forgo his Senior season and declare himself for the NFL draft. Now as a BYU fan this comes as bitter-sweet news for me. We have witnessed the best wide receiver, if not player, play his last game at BYU. While I would love to see him back next year, at the same time I can’t blame the guy for wanting to go to the next level to show off his skills, and get payed big bucks for it. In a later posting I will analyze where I think Collie will be drafted.
This brings me to the exciting news for next year. If your a true blue Cougar fan then you should already know about the Non-Conference schedule, but it doesn’t hurt to hear about it again. BYU will play the Sooners of Oklahoma in their first game of the year, Labor day weekend, at the New Dallas Cowboys stadium (http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/). This will be the first College football game to be played at the new Cowboys stadium, how lucky are we. And to further the exciting news, this will be nationally televised on either ABC or ESPN. The rest of the Cougars Non-Conference schedule is also just as exciting. The Cougars will travel to play Tulane in New Orleans at the Superdome, two great venues in two straight weeks, does anyone else feel giddy. Also, did I mention that this game will get a National viewing audience on either ESPN or ESPN2. See how I could see next year building up to be something special, and then it gets better. Florida State will travel to play BYU at LaVell Edwards Stadium, I have never been so jealous of my unlce’s and their season tickets. Besides seeing the FSU game, there will be the conference games at LES against TCU, and the team up north (The Utes, just in case your not following). For me it just seems that if the Cougars play great ball the pieces will fall into place.
This is why I was able to get over the way the season ended, because good news was just on the horizon. Now I know what your saying, how could Collie leaving be good news? Well it is and isn’t but later on I will write on what type of team we can expect the Cougars to have next season. ‘Til then……………Go COUGARS!
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