Provo • Questions about last year’s disappointing 4-9 football season have generally been brushed aside by the new-look BYU Cougars the past six weeks as they’ve gone about trying to rebuild a once-proud program. They are about as welcome as red-clad Ute fans on campus.
“I don’t really care about last season,” head coach Kalani Sitake said Monday. “We care about this week, right now, the work we are going to get done.”
There’s one query in particular to which players and coaches don’t have a definite response: What happened to BYU’s home-field advantage?
It totally disappeared last year — replaced by thousands of empty seats — as the Cougars went 2-4 at LaVell Edwards Stadium and bottomed out with that utterly embarrassing 16-10 loss to UMass on Nov.