Guy talking sports on campus, on air
Head football coach Brent Guy appreciates students.
That’s why he decided to hold his radio show on campus each week during the fall semester, starting with the Taggart Student Center patio Thursday night.
“We want the students to be connected to the team,” he said. “The students are the reason this university is here.”
Guy said the students can do for the football team what they have already done for the basketball program.
“The Spectrum is a very loud place and it’s like that because we win,” he said. “Romney Stadium can be like that.”
A small crowd of students showed up to support Guy and to take advantage of Fazoli’s $2 all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner.
Clark Anderson, a civil engineering major, said he went because he saw a banner advertising the show and he wanted a cheap dinner.
“This is the first time I’ve heard [Guy] speak,” he said. “I wanted to see what he’s got.”
Anderson said he loved the idea of weekly radio shows with Guy on campus.
“My first year here, I never heard of anything like this,” he said. “I think it’ll be pretty big, especially after we start winning.”
Jason Danielson, a custodian at the TSC, said he also thought the radio show was a wonderful idea.
“I think this will get students involved,” he said. “That’s a good thing. I think [Guy] will bring new energy to the Aggies.”
Tyler Olsen, a business student and former ASUSU Athletics Vice President, said it is great that a coach is trying to get involved with the students.
“That’s awesome,” he said. “You don’t know how long I’ve waited for a coach like this.”
Olsen said student involvement is vital to the football team’s success.
“When a coach gets behind students, the students will get behind the coach,” he said. “That’s the essential key to a winning program.”
Guy said said he was at Oklahoma State at the same time as Mike Strauss, who is USU’s director of media relations, and told him he always wanted to coach in Logan.
“When I was at Oklahoma State, I made a prediction at that time that I’d be head coach here someday because that was a dream of mine,” he said.
Guy also used the radio show to further explain why Saturday’s game against Nicholls State was cancelled.
“They didn’t know where all the players and coaches were,” he said. “They had no communication.”
The football team will now play its first game of the season Saturday, Sept. 10, in Salt Lake City against Utah and will not play at home until Sept. 24.
-bhhinton@cc.usu.edu