SALT LAKE CITY — It was the scene of what one BYU football player called The Grind.
And it has a new motto.
On the field north of BYU’s locker rooms this week were a dozen players running in a giant sandbox. On a sideline, tight end Matt Bushman, a bulked-up version of the freshman who started against LSU last season, was busy doing a chop-step drill where his feet rapidly drummed out a steady tattoo as he moved laterally as fast as he could. Other groups of a dozen here, a dozen there, were laboring over other drills, schemes, exercises.