After BYU’s second scrimmage of preseason football camp — a scrimmage that reporters were not allowed to watch — I asked quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Aaron Roderick if there was a particular team’s offense that BYU’s was patterned after.
Roderick gave me one of those “I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you” responses, but it was obvious that, indeed, he and offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes had looked at some specific offenses when drawing up a plan for the Cougars.
Turns out those teams are LSU (obviously, since Grimes was in the Bayou the past four seasons), 1970s and 1980s BYU and Boise State.