Watch out for what the Cougars are building, Tribune columnist Gordon Monson writes.
at the Alamo Bowl, the BYU coach used a word to describe the Colorado Buffaloes that turned out to be neither precise, nor prophetic.It was his own team that fit that description.There’s no polite way to say this here, so we’ll go with the impolite: The Buffaloes got their shorts, shirts, shoulder pads, socks, jocks, shoes handed to them on Saturday night in San Antonio. They were punched hard. They got their football souls ripped away from them by BYU , via the count of 36-14.
Should we go there with specificity? Yeah, OK. But then, stay tuned, we’ll zoom out for the big BYU picture, the better stuff. There are real and happy conclusions to draw about the Cougars, what they’ve done and what they could yet do. On the flip side, BYU did its damage with aggression — on attack and on special teams. For example, after the Cougars went ahead, 10-zip, Sitake called for an onside kick, which BYU successfully recovered. Another third-phase play, a punt return by Parker Kingston went for a touchdown, making it 17-nothing. Two 50-plus-yard field goals by Will Ferrin worked additional wonders.
This game, in fact, could have been labeled the Penalty Bowl, sponsored by, say, Annin Flagmakers, the oldest flag manufacturer in the country. It reached a point of ridiculousness, the refs getting involved again and again, but they called what they saw. But with the way BYU dominated so loudly on drums early, as that other band’s music was drowned out, as the Generals scored in flurries, bright spotlights suddenly shined in the opposite direction.
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