PROVO — Alerting Army that a “small number” of people within BYU’s football program had tested positive for COVID-19 and eventually pushing for the postponement of this Saturday’s scheduled game in West Point, New York, was the right and responsible thing to do, Cougars coach Kalani Sitake and captains James Empey and Troy Warner said Monday.
School officials made the postponement announcement two days ago, in conjunction with Army officials, because not only did a small number of the members of BYU’s traveling party for the Navy game on Sept. 7 test positive, they had been in contact with dozens of others affiliated with the team, Sitake said in a video teleconference.