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May 23, 2015
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StantonMac
on every team in the country
I'm guessing you believe every 3 star kid who goes to Alabama makes the NFL
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I love that BYU is signing these athletic Poly players.
idcougarfan
5/23/15 9:38am
Exactly. Recruit athletes and coach them up. Worked with Ziggy.
Turnpike Lane
5/23/15 9:42am
BYU Football does lots of thing poorly, but "coaching 'em up" tops the list.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 10:00am
really? I beg to differ. BYU will never land top recruiting classes or superior
palangi
5/23/15 10:08am
Google "BYU football NFL Draft"
WhyKnot
5/23/15 10:10am
Google "NFL caliber BYU recruits"
TrueAndBlue
5/23/15 11:26am
^^^^^winner^^^^^ you get it
palangi
5/23/15 2:01pm
^^^doesn't have a clue.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 2:44pm
name them
palangi
5/23/15 2:47pm
You asked for it.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 3:10pm
You could put together a similar list for every team in the country
StantonMac
5/23/15 3:13pm
Saying something incessantly doesn't make it true. Go ahead and provide proof.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 3:23pm
Honest question: what do you make of this analysis?
Reasonable1
5/23/15 3:41pm
Lol. You should read what you just wrote, then apply it to yourself.
StantonMac
5/23/15 3:56pm
Injury or ineligibility derailed half those guys
I'mBatman
5/23/15 4:07pm
Or the fact that Adam Hine is still in school.
Reasonable1
5/23/15 4:17pm
looks about par for the course, especially when you consider transfers, injuries
palangi
5/23/15 6:05pm
That is a dozen and a half. Over 10 years. That's very few
TrueAndBlue
5/23/15 8:31pm
on every team in the country
StantonMac
5/23/15 3:02pm
*facepalm
WhyKnot
5/23/15 3:11pm
Palangi is right.
Reasonable1
5/23/15 3:04pm
google - NFL players who took 2 years off
HarlemCoug
5/23/15 11:53am
The excuses keep rolling in.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 11:58am
Need ed uc a tion
ZooBlue
5/23/15 7:30pm
One of the biggest myths out there
StantonMac
5/23/15 10:13am
yet I know two coa he's whom were on staff that says you don't know
CarolinaCoug
5/23/15 11:23am
lol. Maybe if those coaches had done a better job, they would still be on staff
StantonMac
5/23/15 11:32am
you mean if they had been allowed to do their jobs???
CarolinaCoug
5/23/15 1:30pm
My failures are always someone else's fault too.
StantonMac
5/23/15 3:14pm
It doesn't take an analytical mind to see that BYU sends far fewer players to
WhyKnot
5/23/15 11:28am
BYU consistently does better on the field than their recruiting rankings predict
StantonMac
5/23/15 11:44am
Haha! "We'll develop you into a great player (just not the kind the NFL wants)"
WhyKnot
5/23/15 12:19pm
You can't turn ground beef into filet mignon
StantonMac
5/23/15 12:26pm
Taking a chance and coaching them up was the premise of the OP.
WhyKnot
5/23/15 1:18pm
BULK CRABS!!
Kougrage
5/23/15 12:00pm
not sure why everyone is arguing this...it's kind of clear byu isn't the greates
Southpaw102
5/23/15 1:28pm
This analysis shows that BYU is good at "coaching them up"
Reasonable1
5/23/15 2:50pm
Byu didn't recruit ziggy. But I get what you're saying.
blueaussie
5/23/15 11:54am
BYU football didnt recruit him. But he was on academic scholarship from day one
SolidBlue
5/23/15 12:38pm
WRONG. he came to byu from ghana just for academics. byu football in no way
Southpaw102
5/23/15 1:29pm
the entire thing was chronicled on ESPN. he wanted to play basketball but no
Southpaw102
5/23/15 1:30pm
Uh, it's says BYU football didn't recruit him in the first sentence. I was
SolidBlue
5/23/15 8:32pm
I wouldn't say academic scholarship means they recruited him.
blueaussie
5/23/15 9:55pm
I guess the question is then, could Ziggy financially have attended BYU without
SolidBlue
5/24/15 10:36am
people aren't always recruited when they get scholarships...they apply to the
Southpaw102
5/24/15 1:00pm
this matters because we need something besides breastfeeding to argue about.
blueaussie
5/24/15 3:08pm
I was on an academic scholarship too. Sweet. Now I can tell everyone BYU
blueaussie
5/23/15 8:17pm
irrelevant...this thread is about the coaches inability to "coach up" players
palangi
5/24/15 11:44am
I'm intrigued and entertained by the signings but don't love it, yet
ColoSpgs
5/23/15 9:44am
At least 30% of the scholarships we give are a comparable gamble
CoopDizz
5/23/15 9:47am
I'm intrigued and entertained by those, too
ColoSpgs
5/23/15 9:51am
Not me
CoopDizz
5/23/15 9:52am
White bread?
kimdaddy35
5/24/15 2:12am
Only maybe two of the guys you listed qualify as white bread
CoopDizz
5/24/15 5:26pm
Two? Please explain to me your definition of white bread then.
kimdaddy35
5/25/15 7:28pm
clueless or in denial about recruiting if you claim you don't get it
southernfriedcougar
5/25/15 7:30pm
White breads are essential to our team. How else do they get their carbs?
Reasonable1
5/24/15 8:11am
No you're not
southernfriedcougar
5/23/15 6:46pm
It's a better stragety than filling out the OL recruiting by signing a lower
I'mBatman
5/23/15 10:05am
100% Agree
gaspasscoug
5/23/15 10:04am
It was Bronco that went away from poly coaches and players?
StantonMac
5/23/15 10:09am
Bronco went "away" from poly coaches and players?
byu1
5/23/15 10:53am
I only remember him getting away from Kahuku -- cuz between the Yewt invasion
Mantis Mutu
5/23/15 11:24am
Didn't the well-poisining start with the way BYU treated Norm Chow?
StantonMac
5/23/15 12:43pm
Chow lost his popularity at Kahuku as I recall.
Mantis Mutu
5/23/15 2:10pm
The top sell on these two kids isn't athleticism, but size.
Mantis Mutu
5/23/15 11:17am
when is Kaufusi going back to the islands?
qom
5/23/15 7:37pm
There are not enough players signed who have NFL talent. In my opinion there are
coastcat
5/23/15 8:21pm
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