Gordon Monson: BYU is a proud football program with a proud tradition. But the preseason projections by both oddsmakers and media members alike indicate that that pride isn’t enough to conquer what’s directly in front of the Cougars.
Hope doesn’t win the fourth quarter against Oklahoma State at Boone Pickens in Stillwater and it doesn’t crush TCU at Amon Carter in Fort Worth, not in combination with the full force of a Big 12 schedule.Character is not in question. BYU has enough of that to honor itself. The Cougars will play hard even when the forces against them are hard.
But mediocrity — as measured by the win-loss record — has never been a friend to BYU football, not for 50-plus years, anyway. In the 2023 season, that will have to change. It is what it is, a truth to handle. A friend or at least a companion mediocrity will have to be.
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