Why BYU wins on Thursday night…

Photo by Scott G. Winterton

1. The excitement of a big game will finally return. Yeah…I know the coaches say every game is a big one, but even I knew that some games mean more than others. Combine the fact that this game is the first game fans, media, family and friends will again be talking about.  Plus there will be emotion and pressure of it being on a Thursday and I think our team comes out focused and extremely prepared.
2. The field will be fast, the weather should be nice and the stadium will have more Cougar blue then Horny Frog purple. Just don’t trip walking down the treacherous stairs leading to the field.
3. Our defense is playing well and our offense is due for a big performance. TCU’s defensive scheme allows for some big plays and Coach Anea has been holding stuff back for this week. Most of the fans were correct, the play calling of Saturday was conservative and we didn’t try any new formations or plays. We should have been able to beat New Mexico with a vanilla playbook and guess what…..we did. The playbook will be opened wide this week and we will have a new wrinkle added to the offense.
4. Their mascot is a Horned Frog and their jerseys are purple. I am not a sports historian, but when was the last time a team won anything wearing purple uniforms? The Jazz tried but Jordan put an end to that. Sorry folks, I was raised in sweet home Chicago.
5. Mike Reed and David Nixon -Texas boys- have something to prove. Besides if they don’t play well, Texas might not let him back in.
6. After a Thursday night homecoming beating, at the hands of the Colorado St. Rams in Bronco’s first year as a BYU Coach, he vows to never again to be out coached in a Thursday night game. I think since that game the only other Thursday night lost was in Boise. Oh bless your heart Matt Payne, but you did smash Carr on that punt return.
7. The most hated periods of practice, pre-practice. This is when the defense gets to run extra plays against the scout team. It’s fifteen minutes when you aren’t warmed up, you haven’t tied your shoes and the scout team guys are running faster then they ever have. It is just another way the defense prepares just a little more then everyone else.
8. Players will have a double dose of their daily vitamin I. Your scrunching your forehead and thinking, is there a vitamin I? I can honestly say that vitamin I is the only reason I could run during the week and on Saturday. Anti-Inflammatory -vitamin I- it’s every players best friend.
9. Max Hall has only been sacked like twice, and hurried maybe five or six times this whole year. Right now he is wondering why everyone is walking so slow. He hasn’t felt this good since he was twelve playing football in his back yard.
10. Once again, like with Washington, I heard the TCU players poking fun at Jan’s name. I told’em to stop but they persisted.