Sitake as BYU’s savior

They also think that Sitake is a better recruiter than Bronco, even though he didn’t add any players to Bronco’s class last year (let me rephrase, he didn’t add any players above two stars) and his class was worse this year than most of Bronco’s classes. 

They are up in the night. They are FBYU-P fans and insane. 

They are due for another beatdown and if Troy Taylor can give us any sort of offense, we will win by 17+ points this fall. I don’t think they get 24 points on our defense. If we can put up 35+ like Toledo or WVU…game over. 

Well this is a fan base that thinks Hill was an actual real QB. Even a potential Heisman and first round NFL QB at that. 

Mangum their future Heisman(despite being on zero watch lists) also has accuracy issues. This is a guy who couldn’t beat out Hill for the starting job. 

I will say this about TDS their recruiting classes do out perform their rankings like Utah. 

Kalani’s more personable than Bronco and the alumni like him better.  I laugh at the comparisons because Kalani is a disciple/product of Whittingham, and if you watched any byu football last year you pretty much saw Kyle’s brand of football all over the field (stout D, ball control O, lean heavily on special teams for field position).  So in essence they’re giddy over a near clone of a guy they absolutely hate.  Kalani will carve out his own identity but byu fans are the worst at eating their own.  Two or three more seasons of them not getting to a NY6 game and they’ll be calling for a shake up.  Again.

I had this discussion with Phil Olsen last summer. He was absolutely afraid that Kalani was a game changer for BYU. Understand he is coming from a Utah State perspective. His take was that as a Poly head coach Kalani could draw on that bloc and it would destroy the recruiting for the rest of the college teams in the state because they would be relegated to picking from the left overs. To some extent we have seen an uptick in quality recruits for Kalani, particularly in state. I think that’s because Bronco had become such a negative within the poly community that he drove some of the polys with better options away. Kalani will fix that. Overall, though, I don’t think it affects Utah as much as the bigger schools pushing into the state, and that will impact all schools within the state. Utah can overcome any gains by BYU in state with recruits from outside the state (as we saw this year). BYU, however, is stuck. Without the ability to access higher quality recruits because of a P5 affiliation they will eventually wan. Kalani will probably slow that process, but the downward spiral will continue.

It’s called the ‘grass is always greener’ snydrome.  They forced Chow out for the same reason.

Unfortunately they are not unique with this syndrome.  Utah fans experience it as well and thus the ongoing insane arguments to get rid of Whit or Coach K.  

The bottom line is that any recruit thinking of going to TDS has to agree to sign on to their Honor Code. Whether it is enforced or not later on they still have to sign and that will always deter a lot of recruits. And if the recruit is a minority they know exactly what will happen if they break the honor code and it gets reported. That is a big deterrent for a lot of kids. There are even a lot of LDS kids who are not interested in signing on to curfews, dress codes, and the like just to go to college. Some kids like the structure so TDS will always have an advantage recruiting that type but your average HS kid is not like that at all. Even if the HC enforcement is more lax for athletes there is still the possibility that some Nosy Nate will report even the appearance of an infraction.

These are the same fans that are salivating over a 400+ lb recruit who has never played a down of football. They’re delusional. 

Not that it really matters, but they were 12 points away from being 13-0 last year. Their biggest losses were by 3 points to UCLA and to WVU, with 1-pt losses to Utah and Boise State. (and they also won several games by only a few points, so this point is largely moot).