BYU Football: 6 Reasons To Renew Your Season Tickets

This time of the year is an important time for BYU football season ticket holders. By now, many season ticket holders have received their notices that it is time to renew tickets for the 2015 football season. Hopefully this isn’t a very difficult decision for BYU fans, but in case it is, here are a few reasons why you should renew your BYU season tickets this year.

Sep 20, 2014; Provo, UT, USA; Brigham Young Cougars fans cheer against the Virginia Cavaliers at Lavell Edwards Stadium. The Cougars won the game 41-33. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

1. Taysom Hill Is Healthy And Back

When you’re pondering whether or not you should renew tickets you need to ask yourself if you can think of a more exciting football player in the country. Is he the best football player in the country? No, probably not. Is he going to win the Heisman or be the number one draft pick? I sure wouldn’t bet on it. But there aren’t many players (especially quarterbacks) that are going to be able to make some of the plays that he makes.

Sep 27, 2013; Provo, UT, USA; Brigham Young Cougars quarterback Taysom Hill (4) passes the ball during the first half against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports

Hill has the unique ability to complete a 50 yard pass down the sideline to Mitchell Juergens on one play and then tuck the ball under his arm and break a 50 yard touchdown pass and hurdle a defender into the endzone on the next play. He’s just a whole lot of fun to watch. We’re only going to get the chance to see the playmaker in LaVell Edwards Stadium six more times. Hill alone is worth the price of admission.

2. Bronco Mendenhall’s Defense Is Bronco Mendenhall’s Defense Again

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but the BYU defense in 2014 was dreadful. It was downright terrible. We could argue whether it was Nick Howell’s play calling or whether it was play execution until our fingers fall off (awesome commercial, by the way) but in the end it’s a moot point. No matter the reason, the defense was terrible.

In 2015, however, Bronco Mendenhall is back in control. He’ll be involved in play calling, game scheming and personnel decisions as if he was the Defensive Coordinator and Head Coach all rolled up into one man because that’s exactly what he is. He won’t be distracted with helping the offense as much and we won’t have to trust anyone but him to call the right plays. His track record of success as a play caller is undeniable. He’s an elite defensive mind and this defense will be better in 2015. It has to be.

Oct 18, 2014; Provo, UT, USA; Brigham Young Cougars head coach Bronco Mendenhall watches his team warm up before the game against the Nevada Wolf Pack at Lavell Edwards Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Chris Nicoll-USA TODAY Sports

3. The Schedule Is Actually Pretty Good

The home schedule in 2015 is actually a pretty entertaining slate of games. No, it’s not as good as the road schedule and no it’s not as good as Utah’s schedule in the PAC-12. But you renewed your season tickets in 2008 when the home schedule was Northern Iowa, UCLA, Wyoming, New Mexico, UNLV, Colorado State and San Diego State without blinking so why wouldn’t you renew your tickets for Boise State, UConn, East Carolina, Cincinnati, Wagner and Fresno State?

Look, BYU isn’t going to have national powerhouses come into Provo every single week. That’s just the way that it is and that’s the way that it always has been. Occasionally BYU will get a team like Florida State, USC or UCLA to come to visit LaVell Edwards Stadium, but for the most part, these are the kinds of schedules that BYU has always had and it’s really not that bad. Boise State will be ranked when they come to Provo. East Carolina is on the rise and upset Virginia Tech a year ago. Cincinnati will bring a senior quarterback in Gunner Kiel to town. These aren’t scrub teams and they’re going to present a challenge for BYU.

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If you want a home schedule like Utah’s then you’re going to have to go Utah to get it. I’m jealous of their schedule every day. It would be awesome to have big name teams come to town that regularly. But when thinking of renewing BYU season tickets don’t think about Utah. Think about BYU and you’ll realize that this home schedule is better than most home schedules that BYU has had.

4. Jamaal Williams, Nick Kurtz, Mitch Matthews

I don’t know if we as BYU fans talk about the potential of these three enough. BYU just doesn’t have 6’5” wide receivers with good hands very often and next year they’re going to have two of them in Nick Kurtz and Mitch Matthews. BYU doesn’t have running backs that are going to set all-time BYU rushing records come to BYU very often but they do in Jamaal Williams. These three players are going to be really fun to watch this year.

Nov 23, 2013; South Bend, IN, USA; BYU Cougars running back Jamaal Williams (21) carries the ball as Notre Dame Fighting Irish cornerback KeiVarae Russell (6) defends in the first quarter at Notre Dame Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports

Really, the offense as a whole should be good provided the health of Hill and Williams. The offensive line is all back. Matthews, Williams, Kurtz and Hill are all back. There are certainly question marks on the defensive side of the ball but on the offensive side this group looks to have a lot of big time players. Even if BYU’s win-loss record isn’t 12-0 at the end of November, they should be putting up a lot of points and giving fans entertaining football games to watch. This offense is going to be very, very good.

5. World’s Greatest Corn Dogs

Move aside, Cougar Tails. BYU football games are all about the World’s Greatest Corn Dog stand. If you’ve never been to the northeast corner of the stadium and had one of these corn dogs smothered in honey then you haven’t done BYU games right.

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Yes, you could find their food truck roaming around Utah and just get a corn dog that way but it’s not the same. Go see the guys at World’s Greatest Corn Dogs, go back to your seat and enjoy your food while watching live BYU football and I promise you that the last thing you will think about is whether or not it was a good decision to renew season tickets because you’ll know that you made the right choice.

6. Because You’re A BYU Fan And Nothing Else Matters

If you’re unable to afford tickets then it’s totally okay to watch BYU games from the comfort of a living room couch. If you lost a job, if you’re a college student or a newlywed and money is tough and you’re deciding between food and football then please, PLEASE choose food. But if you’re a BYU fan and you have the funds to pay for tickets and you live within a few hours of the stadium then why wouldn’t you buy season tickets?

If you’re considering not renewing your tickets because you don’t like the coaching staff or because you’re protesting a bad schedule or because your nephew’s neighbor’s best friend didn’t get recruited by BYU and you can’t support someone that doesn’t support your school then you really need to reevaluate this decision. We’re talking about BYU football, people! We get six days to go to one of the best football venues in the West and watch the team that we’ve cheered for since we were kids. Six days to take your kids to games and help grow the next generation of Cougar fans. Six days to get out of work early or push the Saturday yard work aside and go watch a football game. Six days to bust out your trailers and grills and tailgate in parking lots. Six days to spend time with family decked out in Cougar blue. Six days is all we’ve got and we have to take advantage.

Man, is it August yet?