Utah Recruiting

[Jarid in Cedar]

Lol. That is a good one. Kid sounds like a bright bulb.

Good signing for the Utes. Did he have any other offers?

Solid list. LSU was major competition and they fell off when they decided to not take another receiver

School Interest Offer Visit Recruited by
Arkansas Offered
Cincinnati Offered 01/07/2011
Georgia Offered
LSU Offered
Memphis Offered
Minnesota Offered
Mississippi Offered 12/04/2010
Nebraska Offered
Oregon None
SDSU Offered
UCF Offered 01/28/2011
Utah Offered 01/14/2011
UW Offered

[TripletDaddy]

Wow that is a really nice list. This kid will probably come back to haunt BYU.

[cougjunkie]

Kyle and Norman attended Nate Fakahafuas basketball game Friday night. Watching him on the gridiron I thought he would need to add a bit of weight to play TE or DE. Seeing him on the basketball court he looks like a man amongst boys.

[LA Ute]

Anthony Denham

Not quite Pomee, but a solid WR pickup. His academic standing comment was pretty funny. SU will be all over that one

What do you mean? He's simply a young man with great judgment.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Kyle and Norman attended Nate Fakahafuas basketball game Friday night. Watching him on the gridiron I thought he would need to add a bit of weight to play TE or DE. Seeing him on the basketball court he looks like a man amongst boys.

Someone connected to Highland said that Utah has told Nate that they want to start him out as an OLB. Did he look like he was too big for that position? Frankly, I can't see anywhere but TE or DE.

[BoylenOver]

Lol. That is a good one. Kid sounds like a bright bulb.

Utah is the 2nd-best academic school in the conference, just behind Arizona St.

[myboynoah]

Utah is the 2nd-best academic school in the conference, just behind Arizona St.

You can lead them to water but you cannot make them drink.

UofU better than ASU

[LA Ute]

You can lead them to water but you cannot make them drink.

Look, in this we are just trying to follow BYU once again. As Bruce Hafen once said of y'all, "We are trying to a build a university of which our football team can be proud."

[LA Ute]

The Utah coaches on how different it is to recruit in the PAC12:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700105963/Utah-Utes-football-Facing-a-different-deal-for-pursuing-prospects-in-Pac-12.html?s_cid=Email-5

The most interesting part to me is how many more recruits make their decisions at the last minute, and among a number of different schools.

[DrumNFeather]

Adam Gorney notwithstanding, I will go with Pomee's dad on this one.

Here's an interesting snippit from ESPN insider:

Lane Kiffin has the No. 4 class in the country and is looking to sign the maximum of 28 players for 2011. That's 13 more than the NCAA would like him to have.

USC is appealing sanctions that would limit its signing classes to 15 for 2011 through 2013, but until the NCAA makes a ruling, the sanctions are on hold. So on Kiffin goes, hauling in several of the nation's top prospects. As the Los Angeles Times points out, he's well aware that when the NCAA does make a ruling in late February or early March, the committee won't likely pull a scholarship from a player retroactively.

Let's just say Kiffin is stocking the cupboard.

[LA Ute]

Here's an interesting snippit from ESPN insider:

So he's planning to ignore the limitation and back the NCAA into a corner by using the recruits as pawns? Wow. Hardball. And pretty arrogant, IMO.

[Surfah]

So he's planning to ignore the limitation and back the NCAA into a corner by using the recruits as pawns? Wow. Hardball. And pretty arrogant, IMO.

Or brilliant.

[DrumNFeather]

Or brilliant.

It'll be interesting to see if this gets any coverage or not. If Kiffin makes the NCAA fold like a lawn chair on this issue, it'll set a pretty interesting precedent.

[TripletDaddy]

You guys are not understanding.

SC is not bound by the scholarship reductions until AFTER the appeal. However, if they were to implement the limitations now, pre appeal, then the number of current recruits would be reduced to the lower number that the NCAA "would like SC to have."

As it stands, SC is basically taking a full class like everyone else.

They are doing nothing wrong, nor will the NCAA look bad as a result. It is just a normal recruiting year.

They are basically choosing to stagger the bowl ban and the recruiting limitations, instead of doing them concurrently.

[TripletDaddy]

The most interesting part to me is how many more recruits make their decisions at the last minute, and among a number of different schools.

I could see how you would find this process to be interesting. As a Ute fan, you are probably not used to recruits having other alternatives.