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Mike Sorensen: It's fun but too early for BYU fans to celebrate
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We can start by ignoring the BYU-haters who will undoubtedly have something negative to say about BYU or this article. I'm still excited. Go Cougars!!!
With the newspaper business going down the crapper, you'd think that someone would be a bit brighter in the articles they choose to write.
If BYU hadn't gotten him, the press would be lamenting the loss. Since they did, the press now tempers the signing. Can't please the press.
Any Cougar fan knows that the fact that he is highly touted is no guarantee for collegiate success. It does, however, help in the recruiting process of other players.
Bottom line: I'd rather have the top-rated QB and take my chances with him than not to have him.
There so dang good already and now they finally get a good qb
He was thrown into a meat grinder as a Freshman and then thrown under the bus when he proved he was not the second coming.
Thanks for the "star"!
How pathetic that Ute hatred for BYU runs so deep that kudos can't given when kudos are due.
Heaps may be a bust, but so can every one of Utah's recruits. So give the Cougars some credit for getting three highly regarded recruits last week.
Only time will tell how any recruit will pan out, but that is no reason to flame the kid or the university.
Ute fans, it's OK to be a Ute fan, but show some perspective and some class. It also wouldn't hurt to show some fairness in your rants.
It's also NEVER too soon for Ute fans to laugh at zoobies for failing to live up to their own preseason hype. And it's NEVER too late afterward either. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Ute fans WILL remember all those "Heisman" awards and "National Championships" zoobies have been talking about since Heaps signed all throughout the remainder of Heaps High School and collegiate years. And we WILL laugh at every failed "Quest".
Go zoobs!
Don't cheer or support your team without first considering how a Ute fan might perceive you, you doggone Cougar fans!!
I personally think this recruitment stuff is kind of a joke because it is so much hype over nothing, but it does help the school out overall. Let's just wait to see how he does when he gets to campus.
Do you think Riley Neilson is annoyed at this news?
Another "star" please, Mike.
Some fans cheer for what their team did the previous year, and some fans get excited for the year to come, but as for me I cheer for my team year round. It was hard to watch BYU for about three years in the last fifty, knowing during those few years that we couldn't hope (or expect) for greatness. But other than, BYU fans have been excited for their team, knowing that it could be a great year. We're spoiled! And, I love it!
The percentages actually are good for a highly touted quarterback when you consider all the people in the world who will never take a snap in college football. He has a better chance than the rest of us armchair quarterbacks. BYU fans are more than happy to see what he can.
Now this is where it gets confusing. It seems like the focus is on the recent past, but so many have very short memories. Since 2006, BYU has won 11, 11, and 10 games each season and finished in the top 20 of the BCS rankings each year. During that same span, BYU has gone 2-1 in bowl games and 2-1 against Utah. In both 2006 and 2007, BYU lost two early non-conference games and then ran the table. That's not exactly "struggling" to close out the season. Now they did struggle late in 2008, but Utah and TCU were better teams and then BYU flopped against Arizona.
There may be long odds that Heaps will become a star at the Y but there is NO chance he'll ever star at the U and that bugs the Ute fans as much as their sugar bowl bugs the Y.
Whitt is LDS, encourages missionary service and like the Y, is running a perenial top 20 team. Yet in spite of his two BCS busting performances, he is not getting in the mix for the top LDS athletes on a national scale. It is true that he gets his share of Blue-chip mormon kids here in Utah, but the national scene is pasing the Utes up.
With a few Teo-like exceptions, for most LDS kids outside of Utah it is BYU or Stanford. With a chance to play for an LDS coach on a top twenty team in a great state with quality facilities, most don't even leave the Utes in thier top 5.
Could it be the Fans?
What is wrong with the message here? Congrats on a great group of recruits. Now, let's see if they materialize into anything before getting too excited.
Just a reality check, but
LDS != good kid, and
non-LDS != bad kid...
Secondly why are some people allowed to post a million times on one topic and I have to spell my screen name backwards to get a second post up?
You have missed the point of my post entirely. It was not about "good kids" or "bad kids". It was about why, with all the advantages that playing at the U seems to offer to LDS kids like Heaps and Apo and others, they aren't giving the U the time of day.
Focus on athletecism is fine, but the three the Y just signed are legit athletes. Apo was a soft commit to Texas (they don't offer to just any reciever) and the Linebacker had offers from Pac ten schools.
They are athletes, and the fact that they are ALSO LDS is a commonality that Whit ought to be taking advantage of. The U has great facilities, excellent coaches who understand the LDS athlete and a chance to grow a beard.
With that and the BCS busting, Why is it that these kids aren't even considering the U?
Either Whit isn't doing his job and they aren't getting offered; or the kids see the U as a non option.
Why?
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