Provo • Merril Hoge carved out a fine career in the NFL as a running back before moving on to the television studio as a longtime analyst for ESPN.
But the eight-year NFL veteran with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears is not happy that his son, Beau, has been moved from quarterback to running back by the BYU football staff. In fact, he’s rather angry about it.
In an interview with BYUtv’s BYU SportsNation television show Wednesday, Hoge used words such as stupid, weird, bizarre, smelly and dumb to describe the switch, which was actually made last spring but only came to light when preseason training camp opened on Aug.