We’ll Need to Talk About This Game in Segments…

I’ve taken some time to separate myself from the game—due to the fact that I didn’t want to write anything in haste. I sympathize with both teams this year. I understand what it feels like watching the home team fans rush the field in victory and I completely understand the frustration and disappointment of losing “the game."

I’ll get the post game wrap-up posted soon, but here are a few thoughts I’ve had as I have read through the comments after the game.

Coaching—Both coaching staffs worked extremely hard in order help their teams win. BYU had a few new wrinkles installed during the week, but they weren’t enough to swing the game's emotional momentum completely to the Cougars side.

The Utes also threw in some new defensive looks, which they executed at the right time to get turnovers. Utah also did a good job of sticking to their game plan and exploiting our defensive weaknesses in order to capitalize on turnovers throughout the game.

Coach Anae doesn’t need to be in the box because he has Doman and Reynalds up there spotting everything that he is missing on the field.

Max—Remember that post about emotion and not letting your emotions run over, but controlling your emotions through a channel that would allow for a players best individual performance? Max didn’t read that one. He simply couldn’t recover from his second interception when Dennis read the defense one way, and he read it a different way, hitting the Utah defender right between the numbers. Then after the initial bad decision, he let Utah’s defense get to him and retaliated in an immature manner, which cost our team dearly heading into the half.

Max isn’t a bad player or a head case, but he is extremely competitive and when things didn’t go BYU’s way he couldn’t recover.

There were lots of mistakes made on the field Saturday night. Max’s just happened to be the most visible and obvious, but he chose to play quarterback and that position comes with a lot of glory—unless you were responsible for six turnovers and then it comes with a lot of crap-o-la that no one wants.

The Defense—I am going to save this one for another post.

The Rest of the Offense—will also be addressed in another post.