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It's fun but too early for BYU fans to celebrate

Good article. Let's see Ben Olsen was a highly recruited QB coming out of High School, and how many BCS games did he win for BYU?

i'm suprised sorensen, being the hught homer that he is, isn't pointing out that Heaps is the eighth rated qb of rivals scouting service. So I suppose that he is one of the lower rated qbs as well.

Good effort to throw a wet blanket on BYU's recruiting coup. This should please Ute fans, and that seems to be Sorensen's role at the DN.

It's never too early to get excited. We BYU fans have alot to get excited about. We just need to stay excited and not become arrogant or rude about it.

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!!!

Celebrate success on the field, not any pre-game media hype.

I guess if your a Koog you need something to try and get you excited about your football program.

Disregard every article that Dick Harmon writes.

Whether we like the article or not, it does ring true. No other MWC school gets as much hype about its quarterbacks than BYU, yet how many of those can't miss stars really panned out. Some transfer, some don't perform, others sit on the sidelines and hold clipboards. There are those that produce great results, but the reality is high school rankings don't produce at the next level, talent combined with coaching does. Heaps sounds like the real deal, and hopefully he proves himself. Unfortunatlely there will be on the sidelines a group of other "can't miss" quarterbacks.

I am pretty sure that Bryce Harper isn't LDS. By looking at some of the pictures in the SI article it is pretty easy to gather that he isn't. Just because he attends a religious class in the morning doesn't mean it is early morning seminary. Give me a reliable source.

What about Matt Berry...that guy was as blue chip as it gets when he was in High School. Or Brett Engemen, or Danny Southwick? All those were busts...yet they were these big hailed qbs coming out.

You have to get bodies to field a football team. So you just as well start with the ones that perform well at the level that you recruit from. Yewts, I supose, go after the lesser players? C'mon!!! You go after the best you can find. If one doesn't work out you go to the next guy. That's why you recruit several at the same position. If you get a guy that is highly rated you cheer because that is where it starts, getting bodies to play.

The proof will happen on the field. Until then it's all speculation and really meaningless. Sports writers job, and the media in general, is to get people all excited about something so that they will buy their paper or tune in to their show but none of it has any meaning.

Relish ALL victories. To do less is to play the game of pessimists and negative people have never achieved anything. Their quest is to pull others down -- psychic vampires.

I know he is LDS. Canyon View high school played his team Las Vegas High in the preseason. Canyon View coach asked Las Vegas head coach why he wasn't playing for powerhouse Bishop Gorman and his reply was it might have to do with the fact he is a mormon kid. The next fact is his Aunt also teaches spanish at Canyon View and she confirmed the FACT!

This article would have never seen the light of day, nor the thought through minds of any sports writer in Utah if these kids had committed to Utah in the manner that they did. Look, I have and despise playing the victim card... but this act of "putting BYU and it's fans in their place" is getting really old really fast! Let us have our fun, let us get a bit excited, even if reality says that they may not pan out as well as we all hope I think we are all very understanding of that.

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.

Getting Heaps to commit to BYU is a great thing. Whether he pans out is much up to him, his dedication, his intelligence, etc.

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.

They haven't anything to get excited about in a long time.

But with brocno coaching he'll win a few national championships.
There so dang good already and now they finally get a good qb

Harrison Beck got "CRUSHED" in Callahan's attempt to find a QB at Nebraska.

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"!

This Ute fan is waiting with baited breath for these guys to come in a couple years. Hopefully they will dominate everyone (except the Utes) on the field. Go cougs! GO UTES!