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BYU football: Offensive linemen Mulitalo and Tautu verbally commit

Can't wait for football season to begin!

is so much fun. it is so awesome that BYU and Utah and soon to be Utah State have such great programs. With Utah's recent success this decade and the Cougars' decades of success, tradition and honor the state of Utah is becoming a football state to acknowledge. now if we could only get rid of the BSC and install a 16 team playoff system to cover every major conference champion and truly prove who is the best like basketball does.

do we need more Linebackers or should we maybe start focusing on top RB's and DB's???? I think we have enough LB's in the cupboard, but no DB's worth keeping. they are more like food storage that are 25 years old. Time to throw them out!

Speed.

Need speed.

Gotta have speed.

Woooosh! That's the sound of Oklahoma's players going by BYU's this Fall. On both offense and defense.

Patter.

Pitter patter.

That's the sound BYU's RBs won't be making much as a certain clueless offensive coach succumbs to the airways with an interception prone QB.

Look off.

Need to look off.

Gotta have a QB that knows how to look off defensive players. Doubt that's changed.

I predict BYU will have 4-5 losses this year.

Hope I'm wrong about all that, but this is what happened last year, and most of the offending cast hasn't changed. Still feeling the sour grapes of last year's finish.

Recruiting, on the other hand, bodes well for BYU's future. What SHOULD have been happening years ago is starting to happen now---getting the top LDS athletes to want to come to BYU because it's THEIR school.

Re: Doctor. Yes we need better LBs. When our D was good in 2006 and 2007, our DBs were probably even slower than they are now, but we had amazing LBs like Jensen, Kehl, Poppinga, Nixon, Staffieri, Bolden, etc. They were good enough to stop the run and short passes, which gave our D line an opportunity to get to the QB instead of worrying about other things.

As a cougar fan I will not be excited till they start getting secondary players, cornerbacks and safeties of the same caliber. BYU and Utah both lost out to this Badger kid who was just changed his pledge from Stanford and opted to commit to an offer from Notre Dame instead. So yeah, BYU can get all the talent it can in all the other positions, we'll never achieve the kind of success Utah has until we can get some speed and talent back in the secondary..until then, it will forever be the Achilles heal for BYU and any other good passing team will certainly exploit that weakness.

We shouldn't wish for the BCS to change. While Utah and BYU could beat most teams one time, neither would be able to beat four top teams four weeks in a row to win a playoff. People don't realize this, but we benefit in some ways from the BCS.

re: not excited yet
firstly there is no need to get excited about recruiting because it is high school talent that is at best projected potential, however it is an indicator. secondly, i doubt you truly are a byu fan or you would realize that byu signed the better of the two safties in the timpview defensive backfield last year when they signed bills. he is as good as badger and is faster.

What are you talking about? You only have to beat a team once in a single elimination tournament. I would rather have the opportunity to go to the tournament and go 0-1, 1-1 most years than to never have the chance. Just like the Utes were happy for the opportunity to go to the big dance last year and lose in the first round.

this article is about 9 days too late

Re: 9:11am - Although I agree BYU might have a better shot at a NC with the BCS in place for the reasons you mentioned... I still want the sport to have a TRUE National Champion through a playoff system that includes the champions of ALL conferences. Without a playoff, and without including all conference champions in the playoff, the system is unfair.

BYU Defensive corners average height is 5'10". Oklahomas receivers average height is 6'1". You do the math.

Im not holding my breath. BYU will be a good team this year. But im not sure if they will be able to take on the likes of Oklahoma, Florida St, TCU and maybe Utah. And lets not over look Air Force this year, who had a building year last year and placed 4th in the MTN. BYU has a very very hard schedual this year.

I cant wait for Football season to roll around. this is getting so borring having to wait. all im left with is watching reruns on the Mtn.

...to Oklahoma in their season opener. But not because they lack speed in the secondary. Folks, Oklahoma and the Big XII is not known for their speed. Speed has been the calling card for the SEC and ACC. The Big XII has sound fundamentals, and are an Offensive conference. The SEC is a Defensive conference. The tdS just has to match up well vs. Oklahoma's Offense. Which they won't, because they don't have the caliber of players even on the Sooner's bench. Which is why they'll lose.

Well, that and the fact that this is a big game. The tdS can't win the big game. But look out San Diego St.

Win or Lose, Hopefully more W's, BYU football will be fun to watch this fall. Excited about the new grass on the field; it will look really good on the HDTV.

The new turf on BYU's field is going to look great stuffed in the Uties face masks.

The storm is comin!! The great players are lining up. It's just going to get bigger and bigger.

Yeah, the storm sure is coming? BYU will still embarrass horrible teams in LES and get embarrassed by good teams. Great storm.

Great job DesNews, way to keep up with current events! I only found out about these guys like a week and a half ago.

About DB recruits, as for as the most MOST recent recruits we haven't landed any, at least not "rated" high school DB's. But consider this.

At the Safety spot we've landed some decent players. Shiloah Te'o is good and he could start as soon as 2010. This year we recruited Craig Bills and Jray Galea'i who are both top 25 safties nationally. So we're good at the safety spot for a while. Currently we have Scott Johnson who held is own at corner which is a harder position, and will be starting at safety this year. Andrew Rich was a JC All-American, and Mike Hague back from a mission should move back to safety.

At corner, have you forgotten Lee Aguirre, Brian Logan, and Corby Eason? Those guys will be immediate impact players. There's also freshman Trevor Bateman coming in. On the roster there's already Brandon Bradley, Garrett Nicholson, and Robbie Buckner is back from a mission.

We're better off at DB than you might think.

This is the recruiting class for 2010. We're not recruiting for 2009 anymore. Therefore comments about how BYU will do this year kind of don't have anything to do with the article...