PROVO — A year ago, BYU won its season-opening game, then went on a seven-game losing streak.
This season, the Cougars won their opening game before falling in their home-opener last Saturday to California.
As previously reported, immediately after the game against Cal, sophomore offensive lineman Tristen Hoge gathered his teammates together in the locker room and addressed them before the coaches did.
Hoge said Wednesday that orchestrating the players meeting was his way of making sure that negativity doesn’t linger in the wake of that setback.
“The biggest thing I wanted to do was avert what happened last year and not let the poison of complacency and that feeling of getting used to losing, I couldn’t let that set in,” Hoge said.