Saint Mary's is still looking to shake off their loss to Central Washington, and hope this weekend to do that against BYU.
Guilty perhaps of too many mistakes and missing a chance to finish off that game, the Gaels now look to address those issues against the Cougars.
Club president Joshua Allan says the team is taking lessons from both that loss and the earlier loss to University of British Columbia.
"I think especially in both losses they were massive learning opportunities for us," said Allen. "UBC and Central took advantage of our mistakes. You can't give good opponents opportunities like that."
There were moments to that the Gaels would like to have back, for sure.
"It was good for us to have those losses-better to learn those lessons now then when we can't come back from them," added Allan.
Of course the thing is with Saint Mary's is that they live and die by the sword. They play a riskier game than most, and often it pays off. Sometimes it burns them.
"You take risks," said Allan. "It's how we play. There is an understanding. We want to play expansive rugby and do that we don't want to be afraid to put the ball wide. And not doing it strays from our identity as a team. So yeah we're willing to roll the dice."
