Provo • A rather refreshing development occurred at BYU’s first practice of 2019 preseason football training camp on Wednesday. Head coach Kalani Sitake took a question about the status of troubled wide receiver Neil Pau’u, answered it directly, and moved on.
It was a far cry from the way Sitake handled questions the first day of camp in 2016 when defender Sione Takitaki was among the missing. Sitake brushed off questions regarding Takitaki’s status, and they went on for several weeks. They became a distraction.
The star defender, now one of the Cleveland Browns’ prized draft picks, never played that season but came back in 2017 and you know the rest of the story.