So my first game at BYU where I am now working doing custodial for the Marriott Center and Lavell Edwards Stadium has been a very memorable one and also a very historical one.
We started cleaning the stadium around three weeks ago but the main push has been this week due to education week at the Marriott and other events like MTC devotionals and Freshman orientation activities.
I work the afternoon shift from 12:30 to 9:00 pm usually but this week was different. Thursday night they had a party at the stadium and I was there till 10 pm that night. Then Friday they still had vendors and workmen in the stadium until 11:00 pm and of course the game day was a total different experience even if it had not been plagued with a beautiful downpour of rain.
These pictures are almost identical taken Friday night on my way from the Marriott Center to the Stadium. One of the student employees commented Monday that the game was going to be rained out or at least that was what the weather was being predicted to be like.
Well it was dry and hot most of the week but when I saw this I thought that he might just be right.
Then after going to work at 9 am on the game day and working on top of the fourth floor in the blazing sunlight I was quite shocked (as were a lot of other people) that this is what would hit just before the game was to start. I talked to some Texans who commented that BYU must not have been living right since they had their first two games delayed by rain. (I wished I could have seen them after the game and been able to say that maybe they were living right after all.)
Tia and Scott are somewhere up in that crowd on the far side.
There were so many people and I had tried to capture the dark cloud as it raced over the stadium at probably 60 miles an hour as the rain started and the fans were forced to leave the stadium seats.
It rained again during the fourth quarter but not nearly as bad.
Here is a report from the news on the game, they didn't say much about the 2 hour delay.
"The teams had to wait out a lengthy weather delay after a storm rolled through the area, complete with a gusty wind and violent rain. When lightning began to flash near the stadium, the kickoff was pushed back 1 hour, 47 minutes.
It's the second straight game BYU had to wait out a lengthy delay.
Hill and the Cougars came out of the locker room ready to go to work, taking the opening drive and marching down the field, before stalling out and settling for a field goal.
He was just warming up. So effective was Hill with his legs that he had 166 yards rushing at halftime.
When Texas tried to focus on the run to start the second half, Hill simply turned to the air, throwing a few down the field to keep the Longhorns honest. He finished 9 of 26 for 129 yards. He also threw an interception.
After a 19-16 loss at Virginia to open the season, the Cougars shuffled around their offensive line. It seemed to do the trick, paving the way for BYU's rushing attack. The previous record for most yards rushing in a game was 465 against Montana in 1958.
That total was eclipsed on Williams' 34-yard run in the third quarter that led to a 24-yard field goal from Justin Sorensen -- his fourth of the night -- to make it a 40-21 game.
The defense certainly did its part, too, thwarting the Longhorns three times on fourth down in the final quarter.
BYU receiver Cody Hoffman was back on the field after missing last week with a hamstring injury. He had two catches to move closer to Dennis Pitta's team record for most career receptions.
The loss snapped the Longhorns' streak of 13 straight wins against non-conference opponents. Texas' speedy Daje Johnson hurt his left ankle in the first half and only had two carries for 4 yards.
"We just didn't execute as well, and they played good," Davis said."
