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Snow addresses the mountains about LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, March 25, 2023.

It looks like there is a prevalent concept for so numerous in the state of Utah as the conclusion of March nears:
Hey, wintertime … enough previously!
There are some exceptions (this sort of as these who love how the storms will aid relieve a minor of the long-expression drought) but BYU head soccer coach Kalani Sitake is not 1 of them.
The Cougars have been planning to keep a spring scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday but the most the latest spherical of snow created that impossible.
“I definitely would like we could have been in the stadium,” Sitake explained in a press teleconference soon after Saturday’s practice. “The climate didn’t allow for us to do that. We just want to get outdoors and get in the daylight. This is wintertime ball correct now. We’re striving to get to spring ball. Let us begin praying for some fantastic temperature now.”
He explained BYU has only been ready to get outdoors after and that was on the turf, so there has been no do the job on grass at all this calendar year.
“It just feels greater when you are on grass and taking part in the match,” Sitake said.
The good thing is the Cougars have the indoor apply facility and that has allowed BYU to still be extremely effective.
There is one particular unique, nevertheless, who Sitake explained has been impacted much more than other people.
“The a person who is most disadvantaged is probably (junior Ryan Rehkow) simply because he is a fantastic punter,” Sitake claimed. “The indoor facility is really big so most punters like currently being in there due to the fact they won’t hit the ceiling. But Rehkow’s punts hit the ceiling.”
Sitake mentioned he needs to get outside the house to function on punt protection and he does not want Rehkow worrying about hitting the ceiling.
“I want him to be in a position to kick typical,” Sitake mentioned.
BYU junior wide receiver/punt returner Hobbs Nyberg, even so, has a slightly distinct acquire on it.
When asked what it is like to test and area a punt that might strike the ceiling, Nyberg claimed: “I basically like it a good deal mainly because it gets me prepped for the games. It is a lot more difficult to track the ball with the lights in there. Occasionally it is coming down and it is sitting down suitable in the gentle.”
He grinned as he talked about just how significant Rehkow can boom those kicks.
“He’s obtained a seriously fantastic leg,” Nyberg said. “When he genuinely receives into it, he’ll boot it off the ceiling a large amount. It tends to make it rough to get a good glimpse though.”
Punting and punt returning can be pivotal, sport-switching moments whilst they only appear about a couple occasions per sport.
In 38 video games in a few yrs, Rehkow has punted 108 times (2.8 for every video game) whilst in 35 video games in three a long time, Nyberg has 42 punt returns (not such as reasonable catches).
Still, Nyberg stated BYU and particular teams coordinator Kelly Poppinga are concentrating on creating the most of every possibility.
“He (Poppinga) has set a actually superior emphasis on the reality that we have to have to be a activity-changer when our punt return group goes out there,” Nyberg stated. “He desires us to be 1 of the major punt-return teams in the country up coming 12 months. He’s setting up some excellent strategies to enable us to get there.”
Nyberg mentioned he embraces both of those the tension and making an attempt to make a change for his team.
“I love it,” Nyberg claimed. “That’s sort of my part suitable now. I’m just making an attempt to assist in the best way I can. I choose pride in initially providing the offense the ball (not turning it more than). But anytime there is a possibility to return, I just test to do what I can with it. That can set up the offense with some superior momentum, to get them on the way to scoring.”
That operate could have to proceed currently being carried out inside throughout spring camp, despite the fact that Sitake is optimistic that the Cougars may well get a likelihood to get exterior this 7 days.
“I think the first time we’re heading to be in the stadium is in all probability likely to be future Friday,” Sitake explained. “We’ll be fired up for it. With any luck , the weather conditions lets us to do some points. If not, then we’ll have a good summer season with a bunch of water and awesome eco-friendly lawns.”
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BYU head coach Kalani Sitake talks to his crew right after exercise at the indoor follow facility on Saturday, March 25, 2023.




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