BCFC 2018 Performances of the Year

Starting December 13 and every other day through New Year’s Eve we spotlight the top 10 single game performances of the past season

#2

Julian Wytinck

Week 1

2nd year Valley Huskers head coach Bob Reist felt his club would turn a corner in 2018, and he felt that a major, if not ultimately the key to the turning around the Huskers fortunes would be 22 year -old quarterback Julian Wytinck.

Reist would prove to be right as the perennially cellar dwelling Huskers became a play-off team and Wytinck would turn out to be one of the greatest “one year wonders” in BCFC history. Now, it’s easy to think of that term “one year wonder” in a negative sense, but in this case, it describes a mature leader who was willing to put his faith in his coach and step forward to help bring a football team back to respectability. A player who essentially put a franchise on his back to give it a future once he had graduated.

The season opener at Exhibition Stadium in Chilliwack saw the Huskers down 31-12 after 3 quarters to the conference champion VI Raiders … this looked just like the Huskers of old. Fast forward to the final gun and the Huskers had emerged with a thrilling 33-31 win (just the second ever against the Raiders) that will go down as one of the greatest comebacks in conference history.  Wait, didn’t we just say that for our #3 Performance of the Year? We did, that’s the type of year 2018 was.

Make no mistake, this was a complete team effort as the Huskers offence controlled the clock in running almost twice the number of plays as the Raiders did. And the defence limited the visitors to just 47 yards offence in the second half.

But a comeback like this starts and stops with the man who touches the ball most often, and quarterback Julian Wytinck was masterful in completing 25 of 39 passes for 310 yards to go along with 4 touchdowns and 3 interceptions.

Better performances to be found if you look strictly at the numbers? Perhaps? But this performance was about leadership qualities as much as anything else.

And if you consider that, #5 did all a coach could ask on this day