BYU Football - Fui and Curtis

Bryson and Garrett had the chance to visit the locker-room before the UNLV football gamewith the Heywood cousins. I guess with as good as BYU was and as bad as UNLV was - UNLV would likely not refer to their efforts as a football game ... with an ending score of 52-7, but it is sure fun again to be going to the BYU games and watching big offensive outputs. We were able to get this close to the players courtesy of George Curtis - a lifting buddie and mentor to Rob Heywood - who has a long history of weight training with BYU and its athletes.

Preceding the game the kids all went to the store "Fanzz" and purchased Curtis Brown jerseys (#6) and had the chance to have their new hats and jerseys autographed by the big guys. Seen below is a picture with recently returned missionary sophomore running back Fui Vakapuna (#1 - hence the multiple #1's being held in the air). Fui is averaging 6 yards per carry and 9 yards per reception this year. The amazing thing is that with as good as he is, BYU has so many offensive weapons both passing and rushing, that he has only had about 8 carries per game. Because of a high ankle sprain Fui didn't play in the UNLV slaughtering, but I'm sure he'll be playing in the Air Force game this weekend. Pictured below are the kids with senior running back Curtis Brown. Curtis is a stud and, just like Fui and the other players that spent time with the kids, he was great with the kids. Curtis only played for 2 1/2 quarters and racked up just under 150 rushing yards and a touchdown for the day's effort. BYU put up more than 300 rushing yards in the game in addition to more than 270 yards passing - for a combined 570+ offensive yards (and that is with trying not to score in the 4th). Curtis passed up Heimuli in this game and ended up less than 200 yards short of Jamal Willis' all-time BYU rushing record. After the Air Force and Colorado games these next two weeks Curtis should be in sole posession of the all-time BYU rushing record.