Brock Harris committed to the TDS

[Hoban Washburne]

BYU lands No. 1 player in Utah for first time in over a decade

[BD]

I assume the proper heading should be:

“BYU lands buys No. 1 player…”

[AlohaUte]

See, I don’t understand this criticism. This is the world we live in. If Utah landed him, it’d be the exact same thing, we bought him.

Acceptance is the answer.

[BD]

It’s just rivalry smack talk. Nothing more. All for fun.

[Utah#1]

True, but he’s not going to BYU because they’re good. IMO, he’s going there because BYU is gonna pay players to play at BYU.

In my opinion, Whitt really hurt the team the past two years by mismanaging the QB room and BYU made their best move hiring Jay Hill that turned that whole program around. I must admit, they have kind of regained the rivalry momentum going into next year. I do not think they are the best team in the Big12, but they are for now the best team in Utah.

Whitt didn’t take advantage of the portal when they brought in talent. IMO, it was wasted talent regardless if Rising got hurt or not. We saw after Wilson went down and Rose was inserted, Utah started moving the ball and scoring. By then, it was too little to late. How can a 20 year head coach show irrepsonsiblity and not properly evaluate and judge talent wisely?

He did not trust Rose was ready and wouldn’t put him under center. Whether his evaluation was accurate or not on Rose, we do know is that Wilson went down and Rose went in and sparked the team and scored. Whatever concerns Whitt had to me was inaccurate and candidly poor judge of character. He wouldn’t give Rose a chance until he had no choice, and Rose proved him wrong. Could Rose have salvaged the season and turned it around? I believe so, but we would never know because Whitt went with Wilson regardless if Rose may have been the better option. Now that original QB room all hit the portal and the only one to come back was Wilson.

Whitt has always been Utah’s offensive achilles heel his entire coaching career. They could have a very good offense over the years had Whitt trusted his OCs and not keep running the same plays every year over and over again. Hard for me to believe approximately 11 different OCs he had all ran similar plays. Go UTES!

[UteBacker]

I hate BYU for many reasons, but buying players isn’t one of them. They’re just playing the game. Yet another of the long list of items pushing me away from college athletics.

[UteNamedOg]

Stinks, but the flip side of the NIL coin is being able to reach out to other teams players. If we want him, donate and cross your fingers.

[UteNamedOg]

Stinks, but the flip side of the NIL coin is being able to reach out to other teams players. If we want him, donate and cross your fingers.

[ProudUte]

I don’t care if it is related to money or not. I think this is a direct result of how terrible our team looked last season (terrible may understating on offense). I hate it, but BYU played well last season. They looked like they were having fun. We stunk and we looked like we were miseraable.

I love Utah football and we better dig out of this hole fast or we will be left behind when they go to super conferences.

Three years ago when Kuithe, Kincaid, and Fatheringham, et al were killing it – this guy would have been going to Utah.

We aren’t going to get every Utah kid, but I hate losing this one.

[BD]

I think he is a mission kid. So he won’t be available for a few years. Unless he does what Nate Ritchie did and plays a year before. (Have no idea if he plans on that.) Or if he does a short mission – like Walker Lyons.

[utefansince79]

I too feel the worst part of NIL is a school can develop a promising young player, investing coaching and other resources into his improvement, then have a big name team with lots of NIL cash grab him away.

[Anfernee]

1. Graduates in 2026 and then mission. So it’ll be awhile before we actually see him.
2. Proud is right. Couple stinker seasons and of course we will miss on some guys.
3. I’m extremely optimistic after seeing how this offseason is going. So if we are successful like I think we will be, we’ll be just fine. Especially at TE.
4. Hunter Andrews! 🔥

[ProudUte]

Afernee, I agree with you on our 025 tight ends. Andrews could be a stud, and King is a solid player.

But, I have a question for you: What makes you optimistic about 2025? I want to be optimistic, but I am very concerned about our D with graduation and the portal. Our offense should be better, but we were terrible, so that isn’t saying a lot. 🙂 Give me something to be optimistic about.

[Utah]

Easy. We were 13 points away from 9 wins. We bring our defense back. We don’t have Five foot Five 175 lb RB’s anymore. We aren’t relying on a freshman QB who can’t throw the ball.

And we were still 13 points away from 9 wins.

If our offense is average, we win 10+. If Rising played last year, we go undefeated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if’s and butts and if my aunt had a dick she’d be my uncle…

But we are still really, really, really good.

We should start 5-0. Say we lose to ASU. 5-1. Then we will beat BYU. They are the biggest paper tiger ever. 6-1. Then we should roll the rest of the way except maybe KSU.

This conference sucks. Honestly. It’s not great and Whitt dropped the ball last year with whatever he was doing at QB. If he was smart he would have given Jackson the money he gave Rising and we would have won 10 games last year.

This is MWC level schedule and we still have the upper middle P4 talent. Again, even as bad as we were, and we were bad offensively, we were 13 points away from 9 wins.

[2008 National Champ]

weren’t they also 4 points away from setting (instead of just tying) the program record for futility with 8 straight losses?

[Utah]

LOLOLOLOLOL. Even the article listed all the “high profile” TE’s to go to BYU…and none did anything at BYU.

Good for him. Good for him.

But if he wanted to be an elite TE who gets drafted high…he went to the wrong school.

[OmahaOmaha]

Feels like BYU athletics program is on a roll, and it feels like ours is struggling. Part of the peaks and valleys of college athletics.

[AZUTE]

Sorry but I find it hard to get upset over a 4 star that won’t see the field for 2 to 3 years.

All this really is are PR bragging rights for byu.

He graduates in 2026 he will go on an 18 month mission and miss the 26 and 27 seasons. Won’t play til 2028

Plus high ratings are no guarantee of success. Recruiting classes all over the country are filled with high profile recruits that didn’t make it.

Not saying he will or won’t have success just saying it’s a long way off for him to find success.

Just so many variables to get to upset about his commitment

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