Beating the Blue Bloods: How Utah is Bringing in Key Talent
“If someone would have told me four or five years ago that in the 2020 recruiting cycle, Utah would have flipped two kids who had originally committed to Texas and one who was committed to Ohio State, I would have said you were insane…
Utah will celebrate their ten-year anniversary of being inducted into the Conference of Champions next summer, and to be completely honest I didn’t anticipate Utah seeing the success of being in the conference this early in their tenure.
We all knew that with Utah joining the Pac-12 they would greatly benefit on the recruiting trail, but to this day it still makes me giddy to see Utah in some of these highly rated high school prospects top choice schools lists. To see the drum and feather next to logos like Michigan, Oregon, Washington and USC is fantastic. And while sometimes Utah doesn’t come out of the battle with the commitment from the student-athlete to even be in the running for some of these kids is something that before joining the Pac-12 would have been a pipe dream.”