BYU Recruiting

[All-American]

Sooooo...who exactly is up next at this point?

Behind Hall is Fennigan (transfer from Boise State) and Sol-Jay. Jaren had some comment on the radio this week about looking forward to getting better for next year, which some took to mean he is considering coming back.

[Omaha 680]

I guess this goes here. Conover is transferring.

https://twitter.com/JacobConover17/s...wMGWdykLehut6A

Sooooo...who exactly is up next at this point?

[All-American]

I guess this goes here. Conover is transferring.

https://twitter.com/JacobConover17/s...wMGWdykLehut6A

[All-American]

Seems like a great kid.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/spo...t/65473826007/

Well, yeah, he chose BYU so

[BigPiney]

Seems like a great kid.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/spo...t/65473826007/

[Omaha 680]

Jackson Bowers, 4 star TE from Mesa, just committed to BYU. Dude has offers from tons of other P5 teams, including Alabama and Auburn

FIFY. Glad he chose the best P5 team.

[BigPiney]

Jackson Bowers, 4 star TE from Mesa, just committed to BYU. Dude has offers from tons of P5 teams, including Alabama and Auburn

I like it. Also sounds like no mission, at least at first.

[LiveCoug]

Jackson Bowers, 4 star TE from Mesa, just committed to BYU. Dude has offers from tons of P5 teams, including Alabama and Auburn

[LiveCoug]

This is kind of cool. Hope it sticks.

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Hope it sticks? Huh?

The big news here is his 5 star little bro, who has offers from everywhere, may have a bit more interest in BYU...

[myboynoah]

This is kind of cool. Hope it sticks.

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[Goatnapper'96]

Hats of the Bama! They recruit all the best players the right way!

I respect Saban. What he has done at Bama consistently couldn't be done everywhere but there are other places where it can be done. Nobody else has been able to match his consistency. Saying that while impressed it will be better for college football when he is done. It will be more interesting when there is an annual shift amongst the blue bloods as to who will be top dog rather than a shift between who will be the one to compete with Bama.

[Applejack]

what impresses me most about bama is that they not only get 4 and 5 star guys, they get the right 4 and 5 star guys. they evaluate talent at a high level and then they also do a great job at developing that talent. let's face it - while your chances increase as you get more 4 and 5 star kids, there are plenty of those kids who bust. imo, if they have metchie and williams last night, they beat UGA for the second time this season despite being at a deficit in terms of 5 star kids. not to mention, while schools like LSU, Georgia, Ohio St, Clemson, Oregon and USC are pulling in a ton of 4 and 5 star kids, it's Bama who is there year after year.

IOW, I agree that recruiting is everything, but Bama deserves some credit for recruiting the right 4 and 5 star kids.

Hats of the Bama! They recruit all the best players the right way!

[smokymountainrain]

Watching the game last night, the difference in athleticism between Alabama & Georgia and every other game I watched this bowl season was striking. I honestly don't see how BYU/Utah or really any team in the west, with the possible exception of USC will ever compete against teams like that. I thought this was an interesting paragraph from The Ringer article about the game.

https://www.theringer.com/2022/1/11/...labama-dynasty

what impresses me most about bama is that they not only get 4 and 5 star guys, they get the right 4 and 5 star guys. they evaluate talent at a high level and then they also do a great job at developing that talent. let's face it - while your chances increase as you get more 4 and 5 star kids, there are plenty of those kids who bust. imo, if they have metchie and williams last night, they beat UGA for the second time this season despite being at a deficit in terms of 5 star kids. not to mention, while schools like LSU, Georgia, Ohio St, Clemson, Oregon and USC are pulling in a ton of 4 and 5 star kids, it's Bama who is there year after year.

IOW, I agree that recruiting is everything, but Bama deserves some credit for recruiting the right 4 and 5 star kids.

[Bo Diddley]

Watching the game last night, the difference in athleticism between Alabama & Georgia and every other game I watched this bowl season was striking. I honestly don't see how BYU/Utah or really any team in the west, with the possible exception of USC will ever compete against teams like that. I thought this was an interesting paragraph from The Ringer article about the game.

https://www.theringer.com/2022/1/11/...labama-dynasty

Coaching should also not be discounted. I'm not sure there's much separation in the top few programs, but this is where lesser programs can make up some (not all!) of the talent gap. Developing pure athletes is another way to make up the gap (think Ziggy).

[Art Vandelay]

Watching the game last night, the difference in athleticism between Alabama & Georgia and every other game I watched this bowl season was striking. I honestly don't see how BYU/Utah or really any team in the west, with the possible exception of USC will ever compete against teams like that. I thought this was an interesting paragraph from The Ringer article about the game.

https://www.theringer.com/2022/1/11/...labama-dynasty

There are two ways to win a national title: recruit at a top-five level or recruit at a level just below that but make up the difference with a historically good quarterback (Cam Newton, Deshaun Watson, and Trevor Lawrence are the only quarterbacks since 2011 to win a national championship without a top-five recruiting class on the roster). Recruiting is the lifeblood of the sport. If you listen to some people in the game, it is the only thing in the sport. Last year, Ari Wasserman, a recruiting analyst at The Athletic, found that more than half of the first-round picks in the 2021 NFL draft were four- or five-star recruits, even though four- and five-star players make up an infinitesimally small number of college football players. Great high-schoolers more often than not become great college players who become great pros. There are exceptions, but the top programs are not in the exception business.