Most of the “silicon slopes” money is second offices from Silicon Valley

Sep 23, 2021
4:49:42pm

reddead All-American

Like others have said, the term is marketing more than substance, and doesn’t capture the generational wealth that some of the more established markets can tap into.

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Article in The Athletic on USC's struggles and my thoughts how it relates to BYU

Jennerstein

9/23/21 1:33pm

BYU is about to get the P5 bump. It is the scam of recruiting sites they will not admit.

Turnpike Lane

9/23/21 1:37pm

depends on the recruiting site, 247 does good evaluations, rivals... scamish

9/23/21 1:43pm

We are ahead of the curve now with the NlL thing but the big boys are

kotacoug

9/23/21 1:48pm

IDK there's a lot of silicon slopes money in UT.

greatbam

9/23/21 1:57pm

Silicon slopes is more about marketing than $$.

Acorn

9/23/21 2:55pm

Most of the “silicon slopes” money is second offices from Silicon Valley

reddead

9/23/21 4:49pm

Some of the big boys are small market states. They’re going to be capped due to market forces.

Turnpike Lane

9/23/21 1:57pm

Most of the Big Boys are national brands though. Wvwn if they may me smaller

kotacoug

9/23/21 2:02pm

Big boys are going after big talent with NIL. We are using NIL to build depth

moknowssports

9/23/21 2:17pm

Yes… I’m just saying that I don’t think it’s going to be a ‘gap closer’ between

kotacoug

9/23/21 3:05pm

But I think other schools are focusing NIL $ on keeping stars/big recruits happy

moknowssports

9/23/21 3:40pm

*NIL

m0resn0w

9/23/21 1:57pm

If your team is full of 4/5 star players, a coach has to be a fantastic leader.

fulano

9/23/21 1:58pm

My takeaway is that we need to hire coaches from 247 and Rivals

Hill4Heisman

9/23/21 2:08pm

Kalani's staff has gone further away from the recruiting ranking approach

kccougar

9/23/21 2:09pm

This has been pleasant to see. I was worried about recruiting stagnation and

SoBlueitHurts

9/23/21 4:41pm

Emery was self-reported by BYU?

SingleStrapBackpack

9/23/21 2:37pm

BYU self reported instead of letting NCAA do the investigate/discovery process

Jennerstein

9/23/21 4:54pm

Cleveland State but be afraid, Kansas got caught

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