There have been some great ones, but Unga is the only dominant middle linebacker

Feb 10, 2016
8:36:49am

Bob Vance All-American

that comes to mind.

KVN and Fua could do well, but they are outside backers, not the main leaders.

Langu could turn out to be great in the end.

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An honest question here. There is so much talk about necessity of getting Poly

cowhide

2/9/16 4:17pm

Yes....the answer is yes.

Liu-Kang-Coug

2/9/16 4:18pm

Yes they are.

Carnac el Magnifico

2/9/16 4:18pm

No, but there are more of them that have a football lineman's body type

StantonMac

2/9/16 4:19pm

If us includes you and me

Sea Chicken

2/9/16 4:20pm

I mean just white recruits

cowhide

2/9/16 4:24pm

Here's a fun exercise - go look at the top rated Utah recruits and LDS recruits

YIsForBrigham

2/9/16 4:20pm

Potential to be bigger (much bigger), faster and stronger. They are more

Duke Silver

2/9/16 4:20pm

Yes. And Kenyans are more likely to beat us in a marathon.

Reasonable1

2/9/16 4:26pm

I once heard a statistic that a Samoan man is 40 times more likely to play

mwcoug

2/9/16 4:27pm

That PBS poly football vid said 25 times more likely

mohonrimo

2/10/16 12:37am

Yes they are.

eddog

2/9/16 4:34pm

They have a long history war. They mostly weeded out the small un-athletic parts

Lance71

2/9/16 4:43pm

Haha yes!

davidnairn

2/9/16 6:29pm

I know we are getting way off topic here. But look at the Japanese population

Lance71

2/9/16 6:32pm

..and Viking pillaging killed off all the Tongan-sized Scandanivians while the

nc-puma

2/9/16 6:56pm

There have been numerous evolutionary experiments that demonstrate physically

BYUflynn

2/10/16 8:44am

Would be interesting to study the cultural influences that determine whether

nc-puma

2/10/16 11:20am

sexual selection!

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 12:26pm

The strongest kind.

BYUflynn

2/10/16 12:53pm

I thought the Vikings were adamantly opposed to diluting their blood with

BYUflynn

2/10/16 12:57pm

Yup. Polynesian muscularity is more of a product of selection for cold, maritime

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 12:27pm

The ones that are, are. Those are the only ones we need to get.

Walter Bellhaven

2/9/16 4:55pm

Without question.

Backcountry

2/9/16 6:14pm

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kookahs

2/9/16 6:26pm

True, but historically, the best linebackers have not been poly

Bob Vance

2/9/16 7:40pm

Lately they have.

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 8:16am

There have been some great ones, but Unga is the only dominant middle linebacker

Bob Vance

2/10/16 8:36am

I was thinking more like Manti Te'o and Mique Juarez.

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 8:38am

Polys are great

shakarocks

2/9/16 6:50pm

Don't bet against coconut blood

Jomo

2/9/16 7:12pm

Depends on the position, I think. There are some positions where each

Bob Vance

2/9/16 7:39pm

I saw a 60 minutes on Poly players once. I forget the data but the numbers went something like this. Tonga

HarlemCoug

2/9/16 8:04pm

That's pretty incredible. 35 from Tonga? Or 35 of Tongan descent?

YIsForBrigham

2/9/16 8:05pm

fair question - can't remember - but per wiki there are 100k living in Tonga and 60k of Tongan descent living in the

HarlemCoug

2/9/16 8:14pm

Yeah pretty incredible

YIsForBrigham

2/9/16 8:20pm

NEITHER. There has never been that many Tongans in the league at one time.

provodude84606

2/10/16 12:29pm

WRONG!

provodude84606

2/10/16 12:25pm

For some positions, definitely not all.

southernfriedcougar

2/9/16 8:22pm

Warrior culture + small islands = big/athletic/competitive survive

TongaCougar

2/9/16 11:23pm

We had a missionary in our ward introduce himself by saying "I'm from the Kingdom of Tonga" - it was pretty sweet.

HarlemCoug

2/9/16 11:40pm

Well, they make up a large percentage of the highly-rated LDS recruit pool.

Mojave

2/10/16 1:19am

An Honest Answer Here:

stevebyu8

2/10/16 8:13am

I thought the King of Tonga was Methodist.

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 8:17am

You may be right. It was a recent king and there have been changes. The

stevebyu8

2/10/16 9:42am

Is cowhide actually Keaton Torre?

LumberCoug

2/10/16 9:21am

That's a likely out-of-line, no? Keaton took it with class.

ChinoCoug

2/10/16 12:28pm

No. I was just curious about all this recruiting emphasis on Poly players. I

cowhide

2/11/16 7:53am

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