discounting all the other variables (that CB posters love to ignore) they might make the league..

Putting players into the NFL is a very poor measure of the HC and his team... natural physical talent, strength, speed, and ability to play the game are critical, add to that that a player generally can't have any serious injury, really should play without a mission to be competitive with the rest of the college players and BYU isn't a great fit...

Then add to it that VERY few players even at Utah get married before they graduate if they are targeting the NFL, the distractions that come with a committed relationship and it's responsiblities can cripple the chance for an NFL career simply for lack of focus... look at the guys we HAVE placed in the NFL out of the draft - Ziggy, KVN (single when they finished playing at BYU), other guys who are married make rosters. But married life, especially at BYU where you then have the additional pressures of church callings in family wards, and keeping the wife happy all make it much harder for coaches to develop a player who is in the gym and watching the clock to be sure he finishes and gets to a ward potluck.

I agree, any player GOOD ENOUGH will have his chance to make it. What I am saying about this kid is that he is using the HC as his excuse to go to Utah where he thinks he'll do better... he will probably do well in either program, but he's been convinced by someone, or always wanted to go to Utah, and his early commit to honor his father's name was just that, and we should just let it go and wish him well.

I worry less about player development from our coaches than I do about us bringing in players who have the right skills in the first place. Because Kafusi, Tuiloma, Ziggy, Ethan and others might or might not make the league, but Bronco and Kafusi sure gave them the chance as far as the development of their game for the skills they have... I wholeheartedly believe that. Even guys like Peck and Rowley who we look at as 'serviceable', the fact that they are playing at all means that they have developed to a point the coaches trust them.

But, at the end of the day, you can't turn a quarter-horse into a thoroughbred no matter how much you try to develop them.... they might get the job done at the college level, but moving to the NFL generally requires a slightly greater skill set. So a guy like Peck might get you by for 12-13 games against college competition, not matter what else you try and do for him, the limitation is personal, not coaching.