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Next you are going to tell me that the University of Utah has Mormons on their team. Or even worse, their coach is Mormon. That just doesn't make sense.
What kind of moron, coaching at an LDS school that requires its student to live by strict LDS standards, wouldn't recruit good athletes who are LDS? You know, kids who already know and are most likely already living the standards?
But wanting to recruit those kids and having a monopoly on them are two completely different ideas, one of which has never been said nor implied. Except by idiotic Ute fans who brag about showing all of their "unholiness" come rivalry day. Then they are the ones who tend to forget they have RM's and therefore "evil marmons" playing on their own team.
Jim McMahon's first college choice was Notre Dame, since he was Catholic, but ND did not come calling. ND can't actively recruit every good Catholic athlete. Too many players, and not enough openings. Also, the rating of high school players is not an exact science. Many go on to achieve greater success in college ball than expected, while others with higher ratings often don't measure up.
There can be no doubt however, that BYU does have success recruiting most of the Mormon athletes they decide to go after.
However, I am glad to see that Bronco's propiganda is not working on every young LDS athlete. BYU is not the place for every Mormon college student, otherwise it could not handle the enrollment. I hate to hear the complaining that happens when BYU loses out on a top LDS recruit. Perhaps they felt inspired to go elsewhere.
I think a good follow-up story to this would be how many athletes at BYU (particularly the basketball team) are LDS and are NOT going on missions. I know the "bar was raised", but if they are righteous enough to go to BYU, shouldn't they be able to serve a mission?
If I were looking at a potential NFL career and was highly recruited out of high school I would have a hard time turning away offers from BCS conference schools to go to BYU. Some athletes have looked forward to playing and going to BYU their whole lives (hence a very strong walk-on program there), and others have the opportunity to play for a Nat'l Championship. I'm willing to bet, though, that some of these impressive athletes would be more interested in going to BYU if BYU had the opportunities that BCS Conference schools had (and the same could be said for the utes to a large degree).
I've never heard any such comment from Bronco that all the best Mormon athletes are coming to BYU, but his focus is on recruiting quality Mormon athletes. The best news is that there are enough of them out there that no one has a monopoly on them. Best of luck to all of them, and Go Cougars!!!
In other words it is fine and dandy for programs like LSU, Boise State and who-ever else to remind BYU and the the Cougar faithful of how unfair it is to have 23 or 24 or 25 year-old men playing college foosball for the Cougars. But when it comes to nenefiting thier particular program, whoever it may may...welll hey we're doing doing just what those Mormon guys at BYU are doing. Right?
Plu-lezzzzzzzzz?
Leave BYU alone then. The critics of BYU are nothing but a bunch od HYPOCRITES, especially those to the the north of us. But no morelet's feel sorry for the rest of the country that has RM's and keep tight-lipped about it. Either take the heat or get out of the kitchen. And if you critters at LSU and Boise or wherever maintain your silence in the ake of having quality football players that have served LDS missions....then you are nothing more than Hypocrites. Just shut-up and let us play and see where it all finishes out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will admit there are idiot Y fans who trash a kid being recruited by BYU if he chooses not to go there. To this small segment of "fans", he becomes a spiritual neanderthal who wants nothing but to drink and have sex all day long.
The problem is, you can't educate idiots. Remember, they have a non-functioning brain. But even without a brain, they manage to run their mouth louder and longer than anyone else. To the untrained eye, it makes their segment of the population appear larger than it is.
I liked the article. It wasn't that long ago that any team in the southeast would've suspended a guy's scholarship had he chosen to serve a mission.
Also, there has to be some unfairness. Since the Lord steps in and helps those that live right on and off the field win ball games, the debate is over.
This was a superb article, I have no idea how you ran down all these kids. Unfortunately BYU can only have 85 kids on scholarship, There are three times as many great missionary athletes out there as BYU and Utah can bring in and gratefully college coaches are finally coming around to allow LDS kids to leave a program and then return with a scholarship available to them. USC, ASU, and a few east coast and Big 10 schools are they only Div 1 teams that still won't allow a guy to come back after a mission. Sadly Stanley H. the great running back from Cottonwood had to choose which dream he could fulfill.
It doesn't matter where they go to school, they are a tremendous asset to
those you serve.
As for JC Carroll, I'm from Wyoming, know him personally, and watched him play in High School. Just like most people in Wyoming he doesn't like BYU any more than you do, and said in a fireside a few years ago that the best thing about his Freshman year was beating the Y. He didn't want to go there. He would've liked to go to Wyoming, but Steve McLain didn't show much interest in him and didn't want to mess with the RM thing either. He's doing well and I'm glad for that and I hope he has a great season- but people like you and your incessant ripping on BYU has nearly changed my attitude about the school my father started out at (USU Aggies).
I indeed wish that all of the best LDS players would choose BYU but it has never happened and it never will. Fans and coaches are dissappointed but only the truly muddle-headed would ever disparage or degrade an athlete for the decision that they make. And sorry, Troutman, USU needs BYU but that doesn't obligate BYU to schedule USU. BYU has had an ambitious and well-conceived pre-conference schedule, quit whining because you are not part of it. And quit making up stories about BYU.
And if BYU's purpose is not to share the gospel, then what purpose does it serve and why is the church even involved in sports?
i am proud of all these rm's making a name for themselves in other colleges besides byu. we can be great examples where ever we go. certainly byu is ideal for lds influence etc...but don't underestimate the influence of the 1 over the 99 sine the savior did leave the 99 to find the one! ! !
i have a son whom i have asked to stay and play in ca if ever recruited before looking into byu because it's close to home and easier for his family to attend his games. thus, if both stanford and byu wanted him...he'll be going to stanford/
mission to me is not a choice for ym's but rather a commandment so as long as ca colleges offer my boys opportunities to go on missions i would prefer they stay close to home then to be at byu
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