WR Bryson Baker Commits

[Anfernee]

6-1 and 185 out of California. Chose us over Michigan State, UCLA and Cal. Here’s what Greg Biggins wrote about him:
“Baker is coming off a big senior year and was a touchdown machine at Sanger. He’ll play receiver in college but rushed for 873 yards and 18 touchdowns. He added 35 catches for 575 yards and six more scores and flashed a ton of big play ability. He’s a pure pass catcher and made a ton of contested catches showing high level body control and the ability to the adjust to the football in the air. He’s not a burner but runs well and had a personal best 11.06-100m time as a junior. He’s quick off the line and knows how to set up an opposing corner to create separation down the field. He projects as a high Power 4 prospect and a multi-year starter at the next level.”

[quagmire]

Why any receiver with other p4 offers would choose Utah is beyond me but I like it.

[Anfernee]

Because we have an OC coming in who knows how to call an offense.

[2008 National Champ]

or those other offers weren’t committable

[Anfernee]

🙄
This fanbase sometimes.

[2008 National Champ]

It’s the timing. You have to do some serious pretzel logic to get yourself to him choosing Utah over the other schools you listed AFTER the early signing period has ended. Without looking at his commitment history, it’s more plausible that he received those offers but was plan B, C or D for those schools and when they filled their HS needs he was told to look elsewhere.

Utah offered over 150 kids this cycle. Not every one of them was a first choice or had a committable offer. Otherwise the lowest rated kid at every position would have given their verbal immediately and the class would be full in 10 minutes. Because why wouldn’t you take that offer if you were a low 3* or unrated?

[Anfernee]

🥱

[Dallas]

What does that mean: they weren’t commitable?

[Anfernee]

Word salad. His specialty. 🥗

[2008 National Champ]

You extend an offer but tell the kid it’s contingent on someone else choosing a different school. The kid is more than willing to put the offer on his instametatiktokchat because it brings him attention and will hopefully get other schools interested when they do no more than @Anfernee did and look at the offer list.

As I said above, if you were a low 3* kid and you got a Utah offer, why wouldn’t you take it immediately? That may be the best offer you will ever get and you can always decommit if something better does come along. The reason you don’t is because the school tells you that they won’t honor your commitment unless circumstances dictate.

[RedUte14]

2008, he signed December 4th according to 247. your logic doesn’t make sense here. you are just saying stuff to say it

[2008 National Champ]

I haven’t looked at his page, I’m just talking in general.

So he committed on Wednesday, the same day Beck was hired, but didn’t sign yet?

edit: I see the confusion. @Anfernee said “commits” in the thread title so I assumed he wouldn’t be signing until February since Early Signing was done. Just went to his 247 page and his timeline is all screwy. It says Utah offered on October 8 and he visited October 19, that he signed on December 4 and then committed on December 7.

Offers until May were MW/PAC2/FCS. Visits over the summer were MW. Cal/Michigan State offered in September, UCLA/Utah October, never committed anywhere until this week. Doesn’t change what I said about committable offers in general or the supposition that since Utah was the only P4 school he visited, those other offers were committable.

[RedUte14]

sounds like you don’t truly know.

[2008 National Champ]

Do I know if his offer to those schools was committable? No. Do you?

[RedUte14]

🥱 no, but i’m not claiming anything

[2008 National Champ]

follow up:

Cal didn’t take any receivers in their class of 14 (12 signed).

MSU took 2 receivers. One who had been committed since January, the other had been committed since June. And they have a third who has been committed since July but hasn’t signed yet. All 3 were offered long before Baker.

UCLA also didn’t take any receivers in their class of 18 although they do have a transfer listed.

I’ll let everyone else decide if he was a priority for those schools but chose Utah because Beck was the new OC.

[EagleMountainUte]

Money

[Tony (admin)]

Will we have a QB to throw to him?

[ladyinred]

Maybe he knows something we don’t.

[ThurstonW]

Maybe he fell in love with the campus, or the academics, or he likes to ski, or he loves the mountains….

Who cares! He CHOOSE to be a UTE!!! That’s good enough for me…

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