BYU’s physical, hard-hitting spring camp is producing injuries, but coaches are willing to take risks to improve program

Provo • It is a risk that BYU football coach Kalani Sitake is willing to take. After all, desperate times call for desperate measures.The primary theme that has arisen out of the Cougars’ 2018 spring football practices as they try to recover from last year’s disappointing season is the physicality of this particular camp. Big hits, take-to-the-ground tackling and even fierce, gladiatorlike contact in “mano a mano” drills have taken place in the first 12 practices, an