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“We’ve got to do a good job of ‘BYOJ’ — bring your own juice, and be ready to go, and be ready to get excited on your own,” Idaho coach Jason Eck said earlier this week, in his weekly meeting with area media. “It’s tough not to be fired up when you walk out the tunnel and you see a sellout crowd. … we have to make sure we’re not flat.”
“They’re playing a lot better football than last year,” Eck said of Eastern. “I think they’re playing with more energy, playing harder and more sound than last year … they have certainly caught my attention, our team’s attention.”
Surely you’re aware of Idaho receiver Hayden Hatten’s stellar season in 2022. But you probably haven’t heard the story about his backyard, a teammate and a deer.
“That’s part of it; we have to have the next man ready to go,” Eck said. “Football is a game where you have to evolve your roster, you have to evolve your coaching staff, the team is bigger than any one person. So whether you have injuries, whether you have the portal, whether you have coaches leave for other jobs, that’s part of it, man. You have to adjust, and move … part of our next project is, we have a few spots to fill. We might have a few guys we can add here in the transfer portal. We have a great freshman class; we have 24 scholarship freshmen coming on in the fall, and 14...