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BYU football: Fresno native Trevor Samson gets a kick out of facing Bulldogs

BYU football notes » After not being recruited by his hometown team, kicker has impressed in Provo with his accuracy and his beard.

Provo • When BYU kicker Trevor Samson walks around campus, fellow Cougars don't compliment him on his best-in-school-history field goal percentage, or his lengthy successful PAT streak that recently ended.

Instead, it is all about the beard.

"I have a lot of random people come up and say, 'Dude, your beard is awesome,' " Samson said. "We went to a haunted house [before Halloween] and one of the guys that was there to scare us said, 'I love your beard.