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BYU, Bronco collecting a galaxy of recruits

I would be willing to bet that the Alabama team Utah walked all over last January was filled with five star players and recruiting classes that ranked in at least the top 25 every year.

So how valid are those rankings? Let's just get to September and start playing the games.

Ladies and Gentlemen:
I present to you: the inevitable negative comments from Utah fans.

Read below....

The Utes love to demolish 4 and 5 star recruits.

I've been around a loooong time and I can tell you that every year is BYU's best recruiting class ever.

This year is no different.

It is great to see all the results coming from winning a BCS game and finishing #2!... wait the article is about BYU?.... Ok I will get in the back seat and ride on the hump where I belong.

With no mention of #2 Utah????

Waahhh waaahhh Wahhhh Wahhh.

*can I have a tissue*

Yes BYU is #14 in recruiting so far but with that being said we need to place a disclaimer so there are not ruffled feathers.

*This article is pointless and we all know that Utah is the supreme being of football programs. Utah has better athletes and better coaching and will always be "better" in every way when compared to BYU.

There you go you big babies. Now you don't have to waste all of your time worrying about what the Cougars are doing.

Hey Dick, why don't you tell us something we don't know?
Bronco has used this tactic since he became a coach!
I think he does it to get all of us cougar fans to come back after a disapointing end to the season. Good luck with this recruiting class.

BYU will never be replaced as Utah's team.

Utah comes in ranked at 62nd...watch out! ha ha

Love that I get on to read articles about my own team, the Cougars, only to see most Utah fans reading it as well. I couldn't care less about your team but you sure seem to care about mine. So welcome. Enjoy talking about BYU football, because I'm sure not going to, nor care to, talk about Utah Football.

Gosh, Dick, after reading this article I am sure you are going to want to write another fantasy...err article about how great BYU's chances are to win the national championship this year! To Hi Ute Fans: real fans are fanatics...that's the etymology of the word; so I guess you aren't as fanatical as many of us Utah Fans are. But being second to Utah in everything is OK with us!

I always hope for the best with the Utah teams. It will be interesting to see what BYU's DB's look like in speed & mechanics. This has been the most disapointing part of the BYU program, speed and defense. Lets wish for a great year for all Utah teams. Looking forward to see what Utah creates after such a fabulous year. TCU looks like the pwoer this year, they always have great speed and aggressive linemen. Football is KING in sports.

Every year is supposedly the best class BYU has ever had. Yet this last season our team was the most unathletic bunch I have ever seen. Colorado State and Unlv took us to the last second of the game with their superior athletes at the skill positions. I won't even mention how slow Utah and TCU made us look.

Bottom line: Dick Harmons propaganda pieces do more harm than good to Cougar Nation. Unrealistic expectations that make our defeats even more bitter to swallow. Dick needs to hang it up and let someone else take the beat. Dick is leading us astray.

Its so funny how all the yewt fans come out of the woodwork when there is a article about byu. I could carless what the yewt fans think about byu. Until you actually are national champs you can talk.Come down to provo and see what a national champion trophy looks like . You will never get one up there little bro

I promise you this Dick. If BYU gets a top ten class the BYU PR guys will be popping off about a "top ten" recruiting class. Do you know how they rank recruiting classes? by stars... So people do care about the star system as long as they get recruits.

Also, BYU is #14 primarily because it is based on total points (total stars) rather than average star rank and since bYu has more recruits, they have an inflated rating. THus, when the big boys solidify their classes they'll surpass BYU.

After the best year in program history Ute fans still suffer from a painful inferiority complex even when there is no reason to feel inferior (consider the rivalry and all that Utah has accomplished over the last ten years). Utah remains the little brother not because of what happens on the field but because its fan base acts like little brother.

Edward C. - Last year was a down year for BYU recruiting by all accounts so apparently the "long time" you've been around doesn't extend beyond 2009.

Howard S. - Utah has a long history of "demolishing 4 and 5 star recruits" that goes way back to 2008.

I love how Utes can say rankings are "nothing more than a crock" and spout off about BYU's fake national championship (based on rankings) but then beat their chests about their #2 ranked team. It's kind of funny to watch. The reality is that rankings of teams and recruiting classes are just educated guesses. Of course it's what happens on the field that matters, but if any Ute fan thinks Whittingham wouldn't take BYU's 2010 recruiting class in a heartbeat they're dillusional.

Haha, still living in 1984 is see. Have fun polishing that antiquated trophy.

Hay disclaimer if my memory services me it was not too long ago I heard a lot of u fans willing to trade coaches with the Y

It must be hard having so little to cheer for these past two decades. You can come up to the hill and have a look at our bcs trophies if you would like. They were actually won in your life time and come from much more prestigious bowls than your little holiday bowl win over a crappy 6-5 michigan team.

Utah: we don't Quest or Invest, we just win BCS Bowls.