BYU Cougars College Football Pregame Quote, 09/23/2019

On what the team learned from the Washington game:

It confirmed a lot of things, but Washington is a good team and we didn’t help ourselves on the mistakes that we made. We have to evaluate some more things and look at a few other issues that we can get corrected and get them done today. I’m looking forward to having our guys be at their best again this weekend. Same approach, what we do as strategy will matter on what we see and what we think will give us the benefit and advantage going into this game against Toledo.

On Ty’Son Williams’s injury:

Obviously, we’re disappointed in the injury, but more than anything for Ty’Son, all the hard work he put in to this season and the things he’s done for this program in such a short amount of time. His role still continues, it’s just a different role. His leadership role and the things that he demands from that running back group, I know that they’ll play hard for him. This team will play hard for him and guys like Zayne Anderson that are lost for the year. Right now those two and Hank Tuipulotu have been the ones that are out for the season. His role as a leader still continues and we’re going to lean heavily on him to help this team. They’re still on the roster and they’re still part of the team.

On Tyson Williams applying for a hardship waiver:

We’re looking at all the details of just trying to get him healthy first, then we’ll figure out that stuff. There are a lot of options that we’re looking into, but nothing is definite right now.

On considering position changes to bring players into the running back group:

We might. I think we have a lot of good players there, this is up to Lopini Katoa, Emmanuel Esukpa, Sione Finau and others that are playing that position. We’ll see how it goes. We feel like there’s a good group of players to begin with. If you’re talking about Tyler Allgeier, we’ll see what he looks like this week, but he’s capable of going both offense and defense. We’ll just have to see what his role will be on each side and which one is more important to this team in having success.