Up in Logan Utah on the campus of Utah State University, the buzz of basketball season came to a close last weekend as the Aggie men's basketball team lost in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, but a new and exciting buzz is just beginning to brew. Ever since the news that Coach Gary Anderson would be taking over the reigns as head coach of the football team at USU, football is starting to come alive again. It has been a long time since USU has had a winning football team and coach Anderson is the perfect man to take the Aggie's back to the top of the WAC. Anderson took his former team, the Utah Utes, to the sugar bowl to battle SEC power house Alabama. Utah was riding a perfect season 12-0 going into the game and Alabama had been ranked number one for 5 weeks until losing to Florida in the SEC championship. Utah was a two touchdown underdog and no one in the country gave them a chance to win. Anderson was the defencive coordinator for the Utes and had a game plan for Alabama. That plan was to bring the house all night long, rush and sack the quarterback and hit everyone as hard as you possibly could. Long story short, Utah jumped out to a 21 point lead off of two interceptions, they sacked the quarterback over five times and allowed under 100 yards rushing for Alabama. Utah won the game due to its powerful defense and nonstop pressure on the quarterback. After winning that game, Anderson immediately began his work at USU. Recruiting, scouting, weight training and new schemes have been the focus for Anderson and the Aggies. This past week was the first practice for the Aggie's and Anderson was very pleased. A press release was issued last week talking about the positive progress of the Aggies. It can be found on the USU website under the football home page. http://www.utahstateaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/032109aab.html
I am very excited to see how well Anderson and the Aggies do this upcoming year. GO AGGIES!!!!!!!!!!
