BYU's 2008 Schedule Released

The PDL has released its schedule for 2008. I’ve extracted the BYU games here:

Date	Day	Visiting Team	Home Team	Time (MDT)
May 16	Friday	Cascade Surge	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
May 17	Saturday	Spokane Spiders	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
May 23	Friday	BYU Cougars	Yakima Reds	8:05 PM
May 24	Saturday	BYU Cougars	Tacoma Tide	8:05 PM
May 30	Friday	BYU Cougars	Abbotsford Mariners	7:30 PM
May 31	Saturday	BYU Cougars	Vancouver Whitecaps	4:00 PM
June 13	Friday	Yakima Reds	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
June 14	Saturday	Tacoma Tide	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
June 17	Tuesday	BYU Cougars	Ogden Outlaws	7:00 PM
June 13	Friday	Yakima Reds	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
June 14	Saturday	Tacoma Tide	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
June 17	Tuesday	BYU Cougars	Ogden Outlaws	7:00 PM
June 26	Thursday	BYU Cougars	Spokane Spiders	8:00 PM
June 28	Saturday	BYU Cougars	Cascade Surge	8:05 PM
July 4	Friday	Ogden Outlaws	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
July 12	Saturday	BYU Cougars	Ogden Outlaws	7:00 PM
July 15	Sunday	Ogden Outlaws	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
July 18	Friday	Vancouver Whitecaps	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM
July 19	Saturday	Abbotsford Mariners	BYU Cougars	7:30 PM

This year, all of BYU’s games are against conference foes (unlike last year when the Colorado Rapids U23 played at BYU). Ahh, the joys of expansion.

I did see some interesting bits:

• BYU plays the Ogden Outlaws four times in 2008
• BYU plays Tacoma and Yakima each twice at home and once away
• BYU plays all the other teams just twice, once at home and once away.
• BYU begins and ends their season with Friday and Saturday home stands
• BYU plays ten home games and only nine away games

This looks like a pretty exciting season. I’m really looking forward to mid-May when I can catch my first regular season game. Who knows, maybe I’ll b able to sneak in some pre-season action too.