BYU football: Cougar offense marches to the beat of a different
drum  Published: Monday, March 5 2012 9:00 p.m. MST  Quarterback
Riley Nelson takes a snap on BYU's first day of spring football
practice.  Tom Smart, Deseret News  PROVO — It's their turn now.
And while they're a true Band of Brothers, on this day they were
a Band of Huffers and Puffers.  Moving to the bark of a command;
sprinting to position exactness and scattering in choreographed
time like ants at a picnic: it's an exhausting and demanding
dance and it kicked off BYU's spring practice on Monday.  The
defense has its pursuit drill. The offense has the GET drill.
Both of them are sort of like getting a root canal.  On Monday,
BYU's offense found out what their brothers on defense have had
to do for years under Bronco Mendenhall in meeting a minimum
standard of physical and mental toughness during practice.  It's
called the GET drill, the acronym for Grit, Execution and Tempo.
On Day 1, it took the air out of BYU's offense and left them
pant