Cottonwood, Payson and Timpanogos leave UHSAA and will play independent football next season

Jan 15, 2020
8:18:34pm

BlueFrog Hall of Fame

Three more high school teams will leave UHSAA leagues for football in 2020

Cottonwood, Payson and Timpanogos were all granted permission to play independent football next season, joining Judge

https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/1/15/21067728/three-high-school-teams-leave-uhsaa-leagues-for-football-in-2020-cottonwood-payson-timpanogos

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Cottonwood, Payson and Timpanogos leave UHSAA and will play independent football next season

BlueFrog Hall of Fame

1/15/20 8:18pm

Saw this earlier. What’s the benefit to going independent?

DKN

1/15/20 8:23pm

hand pick your schedule. Our team isn't good and beat C'wood 62-0 and could have been 100. They just don't have the

BlueFrog

1/15/20 8:26pm

Sounds like they’re making the right decision. I’d be curious what the

Odysseus

1/15/20 8:26pm

You’ve identified one of the biggest issues-transfers

Greg Kite's 'stache

1/15/20 8:47pm

Quite the fall from grace. It was not long ago Cottonwood had elite players

BYUinTX

1/15/20 8:57pm

UHSAA has been a mess for years

byukarl

1/15/20 9:44pm

Uhsaa is ncaa lite version.... corrupt

1984coug

1/15/20 11:22pm

I know the Timpanogos situation pretty well

kevin malone

1/15/20 11:00pm

It wasn't that long ago that Cottonwood was accused of recruiting players to

ManicBlue

1/15/20 11:34pm

Cottonwood and timp recruit for baseball.... Baseball just doesn't have the

BYUheaven

1/16/20 6:34am

Cottonwood got beat like I’ve never seen a team get beat before

KG123

1/15/20 8:26pm

This all boils down to the rampant recruiting landscape now.

Adwight

1/15/20 8:26pm

First Cottonwood should be closed and the student that are bused in

shakarocks

1/15/20 8:32pm

Cottonwood never should have been built.

WJCougar

1/15/20 8:36pm

Because it was built to hold 3500 students

Solomon Levi

1/15/20 8:38pm

Yep...agreed. Just built in the wrong location.

WJCougar

1/15/20 8:39pm

Frankly, they should have torn down Olympus in the 90s

Solomon Levi

1/15/20 8:51pm

It would make a great east-side SLCC campus

shakarocks

1/15/20 8:47pm

Except that it is not a growing area

Solomon Levi

1/15/20 9:09pm

There are still plenty of college students in the area.

shakarocks

1/15/20 9:34pm

Cool idea

Solomon Levi

1/15/20 9:55pm

Very similar to the mistake of building 3 high schools in Orem

BYUheaven

1/15/20 8:48pm

No Scott Cate around to save it now?

RdF3

1/15/20 8:39pm

Sounds like Cottonwood needs to bring back Scott Cate

Solomon Levi

1/15/20 8:36pm

The new playoff system seems idiotic. You just finished your 0-10 season, but

dYrtbYkerYder

1/15/20 9:18pm

Don’t the top teams get byes the first week? So that scenario shouldn’t happen.

BW84

1/16/20 11:29am

yeah. 1-6 get byes. but still #28 is playing #7 or whatever and it's 62-0 at half

BlueFrog

1/16/20 11:34am

And then you had the Lone Peak fiasco as well.

dYrtbYkerYder

1/16/20 1:31pm

yep. and the Orem seeding mess up. In the end, the best teams were in the semis, but overall it was bad optics for

BlueFrog

1/16/20 1:38pm

Recruiting and open enrollment are screwing up high school football in Utah

byusage

1/18/20 8:13pm

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