Showing posts with label Utah State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utah State. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2014

BYU's Taysom Hill out for year after breaking leg against Utah (VIDEO)

Taysom Hill, the star quarterback for No. 18 BYU and a Heisman Trophy hopeful, will miss the rest of the season after fracturing his left leg Friday night.

Hill suffered the disastrous break during BYU's 35-20 loss to Utah State in Provo, Utah. He is scheduled for surgery Saturday and will be out three to four months.

The respective BYU losses also take away any chance for their national playoff dreams.




Hill was scrambling right in the second quarter when Utah State safety Brian Suite pulled him down, landing awkwardly on Hill's lower left leg. He limped off the field before being carted away to the locker room.




"It was really difficult to watch Taysom go down," BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "Our execution will now have to be better from top to bottom because of Taysom's ability to create. There just isn't another Taysom Hill out there anywhere."

Hill, a junior, had completed eight of 11 passes for 99 yards and a touchdown before limping off the field. He also had run seven times for 35 yards and a score.

Backup quarterback Christian Stewart threw three interceptions.

Hill is one of the top running quarterbacks in the country. He entered Friday tied for first in the country among QBs with seven rushing TDs, and his 107.0 yards on the ground per game ranked third.

The team captain had averaged 219 passing yards per game with a 66 percent completion rate through the Cougars' four-game winning streak to start the season.

Senior transfer Stewart will be the Cougars' starter from this point on, Mendenhall said, as they have only two other quarterbacks on the roster, both of whom are freshmen.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

ESPN Reporter Blows Ohio Coach's Gatorade Shower

After winning the the 2011 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Ohio head coach Frank Solich was being interviewed by an ESPN reporter while two of his players players sneaked up on him and prepared to give him a Gatorade victory shower when the interviewer backed away and alerted the coach— ruining the impromptu celebration.




Ohio came from behind to defeat Utah State, 24-23, in Boise and the players were celebrating the first bowl victory in their school's history.

The reporter's heads-up allowed her to finish her mid-field interview without getting drenched, but turned what should have been surprise moment into one of the worst Gatorade showers in memory as the two jubilant players then had to chase down their head coach and spray the contents of the cooler at Solich as he ran off when the interview was through because she told him to "duck and cover."

No one likes a tattletale.