I know that coaches often had players that they were willing to go to bat for, but if they fell outside of Broncos criteria it was extremely rare that he would approve it.

A lot of the early commitments in recent years were two and three star guys who always wanted to play for BYU. Those are the types of guys that should be used to fill in gaps in a class rather than to build the class around. Those are also the types of guys that need some recruiting love but don't need to be committed to early in the process .