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Collie's next route: the NFL
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Losing your best player doesn't look good for next year.
But I can admit Collie was a great player, props to him and good luck.
Go AP #2 Utes!!
Regardless how good of a year he has next year, his draft status would not improve--unless there happens to be a weak class of receivers. He'll probably go 3rd or 4th round because he's a great received but doesn't run as fast as the typical NFL receiver.
Best of luck!!
At least now Hall will have to learn the names of his other wideouts.
To all of the vitriolic supposed Ute fans, isn't it sad that your team has just achieved something amazing, and all you seem to care about is disparaging the Cougars in any way possible. Many of us have wondered over the years whether you care more about your team or more about your hate for BYU. Seriously, how sad!
To all of the vitriolic, supposed BYU fans, stop giving the lame excuse that "they started it" and realize that the only way respect will come to both schools is for a strong BYU and Utah tradition. I'm sorry, but the success of the schools will be linked to each other.
To all of the true Ute and fans, let's all hope that he does well in the NFL. The more exposure the MWC gets the better for all of us.
Good Riddance to his post game open mount insert foot moments!
Good Riddance to his ego!
Collie & Ego = NFL....Great Fit!
This is similar to Andy Boyce of BYU back in the early 90's. He was an incredibly tough receiver, dropped far fewer balls than Collie and was a go to guy. Went to the NFL combine and ran incredible routes, a 4.5 40 to go with it. And wasn't even drafted. Boyce would have had better numbers than Collie but his quarterback knew how to spread the ball. His name was Ty Detmer. Collie's numbers are inflated in part because Max Hall throws disproportionatly to Collie.
I hope the best for Collie but expect the worst. In the NFL speed is everything. Year after year great skills take a back seat to 4.4 speeds. Collie will be no different.
The good thing is this may help BYU. Hall is going to need to find more receivers and may actually make all of his reads now, not just Collie all the time.
GO BYU!
Congrats Utah!
I think this is a wise choice for him; strike while the iron is hot. I think the recent shaky QB play of Max also had some bearing on his decision to leave now.
Best of luck in the NFL.
-Ute Fan
go kick some --- without collie!
Gotta just say, though--were I on the team, I'd sure feel more confident going up against the Sooners with Collie than without him... :)
If he's finished school, then God Bless and good luck.
I'll never forget how excited BYU fans were to have Shawn Bradley return from his mission - no one thought he wouldn't play at least a second year in Provo. Yet while still on his mission in Australia, knocking on doors and wearing his nametag, he announced that he was leaving early.
Not cool. Not something we expect from a member of the church.
Though I knew Trent Plaisted wouldn't survive in the NBA because of skills issues, he completed his degree and finished his commitment to the school.
Collie will be a good receiver at the NFL level, but he's not going to be a stud.
Hope I'm wrong, though.
Again, my best Collie but I think you are making a foolish choice:(
This means Max Hall needs to learn to scan the entire field next season. This is a chance for him to really raise his game and gell with the young receivers like Jacobson and Chambers. He still has two of the best TEs in Pitta and George. Unga is good and Tonga great as receivers out of the backfield. If our new o-line gells quickly we will still be a top ten offensive team - but also lose 3-4 games with our schedule.
That said, he was only a good receiver on a very mediocre team. If he stayed, BYU wouldn't magically be that much better of team. If he goes, they are still a mediocre team.
My guess, because of his below average size and average speed is that he won't go until somewhere in the 4th or 5th rounds of the draft, and he will find himself somewhere down the depth chart, he will last a few years, bouncing around to a few teams, and then be out of the league.
Which isn't to say he is a bad football player at all, he just isn't one of the top elite players.
As for "Provo", and the comparison with Rice and Carter, fine, name the whole group of Utah receivers that are excelling in the NFL. Exactly. Collie and his skills remind me of another "slow" receiver named Steve Largent who supposedly lacked speed but sure made a name for himself as a clutch receiver.
We will miss Collie, but we still have Pitta, George, Jacobson, Chambers, Hafoka, and on and on. It's not like Max Hall doesn't have any quality receivers. Go Cougars.
Good luck Collie. Thanks for the great seasons at the Y! You were awesome!
I wish he would stay around another year, for selfish reasons of course, but i just hope this is not like a luke stayley situaiton, were the scouts promised great things and nothing ever panned out for him.
Oh and by the way, I did not think i heard, i KNOW i heard a huge sigh of relief coming from off the hill in salt lake city. with all the criticism the ute fans threw at Collie and all the crap they gave him, if they had the opportunity, they would have took him on their team in a heart beat!!!! over any and all of their receivers (past and present).
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