The reason why Utah is doing so well with recruiting

[ProudUte]

According to the CB – because they cannot understand why any young man would choose Utah over BYU.

1. We are offering up to 500k in NIL money.  I do not believe this for a moment.  I think we have improved our NIL status with businesses and donors, but not to the point that we are promising 500K to some players.

2. Coach Whitt lies to recruits.  He tells them they can play one position but changes his position when he ends up at Utah.  (That really turned out badly for Krueger and Lloyd.)

3. Coach Whitt is going after LDS kids just because he hates BYU and wants them to fail.

4. Whitt has made a deal with the devil.

5. Many Utah recruits would not be academically eligible to go to BYU.

6. Honor code (This only affects our recruiting of non-LDS kids against BYU.  There is some truth to this.  However, not many of our recruits fall into this category and it has nothing to do with us beating out other schools like Texas, Stanford, USC, etc.)

Face it, my Cougar friends, Utah has built up their football program and kids want to come here because we do a great job of development and it’s a great place to play football.  Some kids will pick BYU and that is fine.  I wish them well if that is where they want to play.  There are many reasons that go into a player picking the school/team that is best for him.

 

[NarfUte]

They think we’ve got $9-10MM promised to recruits this year but no 5 stars? 

[UteFanatic]

For reference, that’s ballpark for what Texas A&M is paying out for NIL (the highest in CFB, IIRC). Hilarious that the CB type just believe whatever some rando user posts.

[Central Coast Ute]

These guys believe anything Harmon spews out of his dirty mouth. He’s a documented liar but they love everything the hype machine pumps out.

[UteFanatic]

That place is a cesspool of delusion and anger. I honestly don’t know how any self-respecting BYU fan can tolerate being there. I see BYU fans on Twitter make fun of that place a lot. Pretty telling when half their fanbase can’t stand the toxic culture that is Cougarboard.

[Hellhound152]

You forgot the most important one, “Utah is offering NIL money that is not collected or earmarked and then will stiff the kids after they sign.”

[younglurch]

The academics argument has always been ludicrous to me. It’s asinine to suggest that BYU’s recruiting has been significantly impacted by high academic standards because players can’t enroll. The only P5 school where this could legitamately be an argument is Stanford and perhaps Northwestern. Michigan fans also love to pull this card when they miss on a recruit. Every school has absolute bare minimum standards, but you’re kidding yourself if you believe the football team is going to let admissions stand in their way if they really want a recruit or transfer. 

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and Rice require their athletes to meet their minimum academic standards.  I don’t know what Duke requires.  But that’s it.  Those are the only schools who have legitimate “academic barriers”.  But not ybU-p.  They can — and have recently — accepted “academic non-qualifiers”.  Any school that takes a Prop 48 waiver kid can’t complain that their academic requirements are a recruiting obstacle.

[2008 National Champ]

Georgia Tech also has issues based on the majors they offer. It is often cited as one of the main reasons they struggle to recruit their local area

[EagleMountainUte]

I always thought Wisconsin had some problems with academics. It was something that frustrated Gary Anderson.

[2008 National Champ]

only if “academics” = “Barry Alvarez”.

Anderson left because Alvarez, the AD, only wanted Anderson to run the exact same system that Alvarez did when he was the Coach.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

I read that too.  One of the problems with the zoobs is that they (and their culture) are so narcissistic, they can’t imagine any world where they’re not the de facto #1.  So if anybody does better than they, then that means there had to be either some nefarious backroom, deep-state conspiracy afoot ala, cheating, bribery, bigotry, et al, or that ybU-p was just too awesome for them to meet their minimum qualifications.

I know this from personal experience.  I spent a year down there in that bubble.  This better-than-you ethos is both ingrained in their psyche, and encouraged from amongst their fellow “chosen ones”.

And then they go and circle the wagons because they’re afraid the “wrong sort” might infiltrate their ivory tower, while simultaneously wondering why nobody likes them, and/or are always making fun of them.

That’s the “long version”.  The “short version” could just be easily summed up as #CougarTradition.

[BD]

Dont forget Kyle has a vestigial tail. That’s it. That’s why Utah is recruiting so well.

[Extra Medium]

I for one believe everything I read on cougarboard because their brother-in-laws cousin neighor’s friend ex-girlfriend dad was wearing a byu shirt in an airport in Des Moines and all their recruits parents/neighbors/doctors/friends/lovers/gardeners saw it and came over and told them. They told him everyone in the world loves BYU but can’t admit it because the gates of hell would open up and swallow everyone. So by not going to byu they are trying to save the world…you see that’s why they picked Utah. The aptly named Dick Harmon is writing his next article about how byu is actually everyone of earth’s favorite team but they just can’t admit it.

[ayoriver]

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