Dick Harmon: Daniel Sorensen quickly fitting the Andrew Rich mold

By Dick Harmon, Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 22 2012 7:27 p.m. MDT

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If the progress of BYU strong safety Daniel Sorensen is any indication of how BYU's secondary has evolved over the past year, Bronco Mendenhall may be onto something defensively.

The best BYU secondaries I've seen over the years were in 1982 (Tom Holmoe, Kevin Walker, Kyle Morrell, Greg Peterson and John Mannion), 1984 (Mark Allen, Kyle Morrell) and 1996 (Tim McTyer, Omarr Morgan). The 2001 secondary with Jernaro Gilford and Levi Madarieta wasn't too shabby either.

The 1996 secondary had two lock-down corners in Morgan and McTyer, which allowed the defense to be extremely flexible. I don't know if Hadley and Johnson are in that category, but they certainly are more capable of playing press cover in man coverage than any I've seen since Mendenhall came to Provo.

If that holds true this year, it will give Mendenhall great flexibility.

And at BYU, having a playmaking secondary is a very big deal.

In 2012, it starts with Sorensen.

email: dharmon@desnews.com, twitter: Harmonwrites

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idaho cougar fan

Twin Falls, ID

If the secondary is as good as they say it is, that usually means good things for the Cougs. As a fan I try not to get to excited because we often tend to overhype things a little. When Cougs have a good secondary, they usually have real good years. More..

10:15 p.m. Aug. 22, 2012
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worf

Mcallen, TX

CT98,

You may needy some therapy. Thursday night football will do some great healing.

4:39 p.m. Aug. 23, 2012
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Commonsensecougar

LEHI, UT

I think you forgot about Rodney Thomas and Rodney Rice. Those guys where great at jumping passes. Rice had multiple two pick games.

9:05 a.m. Aug. 23, 2012
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