Video: BYU, Utah football recruiting special, part 1

Published: Thursday, Jan. 26 2012 4:45 p.m. MST

Signing Day Special - Part 1

Summary

A conversation with experts on recruiting, Brandon Gurney of the Deseret News and Tom Cella of Utezone.com. This is part one of a four-part video series about National Signing Day.

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Editor's note: This if the first of a three-part series examining the recruiting efforts of the state's three Division I football programs leading up to Wednesday's 2012 National Letter of Intent Day.

A conversation with experts on recruiting, Brandon Gurney of the Deseret News and Tom Cella of Utezone.com. This is part one of a four-part video series about National Signing Day. In this segment, Gurney and Cella discuss the history of recruiting in Utah and the current state of the classes.

See part two here.

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williary

Kearns, UT

Mr. Gurney. A question. You said the instate battle is "about even" this year. By my calculations, between the 3 recruiting sites, there are 14 different players listed in the Utah top 10. Of those 14, Utah will get 8, BYU 2 and 4 out More..

5:28 p.m. Jan. 26, 2012
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williary

Kearns, UT

That's where this gets tricky. BYU has a solid reputation lately of "pulling" scholarship offers when recruits decide they're not really considering BYU. Ricky Heimuli, Harvey Langi, Manti Teo, Zack Lindsay, Moana Ofaganague, the list More..

8:03 p.m. Jan. 26, 2012
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VegasUte

Las Vegas, NV

Top 10 signs your program is going "down hill":

Honorable mentions:

-54-10
-Independence

10- The best keepsake you have is a closet full of t-shirts with unfulfilled catch phrases
9- Robert Anae is More..

12:41 p.m. Jan. 27, 2012
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