BYU assistant coach, particular groups coordinator and safeties coach Ed Lamb talks with head coach Kalani Sitake because the BYU Cougars and the Idaho State Bengals play at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
In precisely two weeks, BYU’s soccer group will board a flight certain for Tampa, Florida, the place the temperature Thursday at 4 p.m. EDT was 92 levels with 68% humidity.
That’s steamy, and it might be even hotter and extra humid on Sept. 3, when the Cougars face the South Florida Bulls within the mid-afternoon at Raymond James Stadium.
All through preseason coaching camp, BYU has practiced from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., roughly, in Provo, the place it was 90 levels Thursday morning, with 23% humidity. That’s fairly a distinction.
“It'll be extra humid than we're used to. We're going to need to get used to that. We're going to have to verify we hydrate. And it might very properly could also be hotter than we're used to. A minimum of it can really feel that method.” — BYU assistant head coach Ed Lamb on the opener at South Florida on Sept. 3
What are the No. 25-ranked Cougars, who can be double-digit favorites, doing to arrange for the oppressively muggy circumstances? Nicely, not a lot out of the extraordinary, assistant head coach Ed Lamb mentioned after Thursday’s apply concluded on the outside apply facility behind the Scholar Athlete Constructing.
“I believe the concept of making an attempt to simulate at 100% the surroundings we're going to be in, I don’t assume we need to do this,” Lamb mentioned.
Because the Deseret Information reported earlier this week, the No. 7-ranked Utes additionally play in Florida on Sept. 3 — within the Swamp in Jacksonville towards the Florida Gators, and are going to nice lengths to simulate the circumstances for a recreation that kicks off at 7 p.m. EDT. They've cranked up the warmth at their indoor apply facility, the Eccles Subject Home, for example, and practiced in the course of the afternoon — the most well liked time of the day.
“It'll be extra humid than we're used to,” Lamb mentioned. “We're going to need to get used to that. We're going to have to verify we hydrate. And it might very properly could also be hotter than we're used to. A minimum of it can really feel that method.”
Each groups are leaving Utah on Sept. 1, two days earlier than kickoff. That has been a typical apply for each squads once they play within the Jap Time Zone.
“The administration has seen match for us to journey like an NFL group would, so we're going to get there 36 hours earlier than the sport begins, or greater than 36 hours, which is form of customary,” Lamb mentioned. “We're dropping down in elevation, so that's one thing (that might assist).”
He mentioned they thought of simulating the humidity within the indoor apply facility, however determined towards it.
“Not that we predict that's flawed. I believe that’s superb,” he mentioned, when it was talked about what one other group in Utah is doing to arrange. “That’s is (one) philosophy, and we be ok with the philosophy we now have.”
So far as altering apply occasions, or watering down the outside discipline, or another measures, Lamb mentioned it was extra necessary to the teaching workers to have crisp, well-executed practices at this level in camp.
“However we really feel like that typically can backfire, the place now we aren't training in addition to we may,” he mentioned.
Senior cornerback Kaleb Hayes, who's from San Bernardino, California, mentioned coaches are at all times telling gamers to stretch and hydrate correctly, however haven’t dwelled on what circumstances can be like in two weeks in Florida.
“We simply play soccer. The climate, you simply received to take care of it. I've performed sufficient soccer and been round the place it's humid, the place it's raining, the place it has been snowing,” he mentioned. “It's simply a type of issues the place you simply gotta suck it up and simply play by means of it, at this level. We're grown males, so let’s play prefer it.”
Prior to now, BYU’s help workers has had the gamers drink pickle juice to fight the warmth and humidity and scale back cramping.
“That pickle juice might be going to come back, in about like two weeks, hopefully,” Hayes mentioned. “I'll in all probability have a jug of pickle juice. However I believe the boys are sensible sufficient to deal with their our bodies, and the identical goes for me.”
One other roster addition
The one new title on the brand new fall camp roster distributed by BYU on Thursday was defensive again Mory Bamba, a switch from Tyler (Texas) Junior School who grew up in Wisconsin. Bamba will put on No. 19. Mamba put in a variety of work after apply with the aforementioned Hayes.
Kick returner and defensive again Caleb Christensen nonetheless isn’t on the roster but, or training, however Lamb mentioned Christensen is “superb, and he can be with the group.”
Different candidates to be the kicker returners are Talmage Gunther, Miles Davis and Lopini Katoa, Lamb mentioned.
QB Corridor takes break day
Beginning quarterback Jaren Corridor didn't apply Thursday, and was mentioned to be underneath the climate a bit by a pair teammates. Coaches have mentioned that they are going to maintain chosen gamers out of practices in camp to offer them some extra relaxation, so Corridor’s absence might be attributed to that as properly.
Head coach Kalani Sitake didn't tackle the media Thursday, and hasn’t since after final Saturday’s scrimmage. The Cougars will scrimmage once more at LaVell Edwards Stadium this Saturday.