Provo • Don’t tell anyone, but BYU football coach Kalani Sitake and his staff gambled a lot during preseason training camp, which concluded Thursday with a scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
“We couldn’t have written it any better, the way things ended up,” Sitake said.
The third-year coach took some major risks by having the Cougars play as much real football as possible in camp — coaches call it “live work” — and there was more contact and hitting than likely ever before in August in Provo. Even the quarterbacks were allowed to be tackled at times, although not as much as last spring.