Comments about ‘BYU football Online exclusive: Bronco insists recruits make firm commitment to Cougars’

I love Bronco's style of recruiting. It's obviously showed success on the field since he took over in '05. I sure hope that we never lose this awsome coach. The team as a whole will be better in many different ways and aspects. I'm very excited that he held his ground with Kona. I'm sure it will work out for both BYU Football and Kona.

Good deal for me. Kind of funny about the teaching parents part...

With that kind of standard who can posibly live up to it? How important is it really that a football player be committed to the school they are going to succeed?

You tell 'em coach

Bronceo has class. It's great that he is at BYU.

With these statements he is turning down all potential cup cakes.

Bronco is exactly right. It is too bad that in today's modern age of moral relativism that so many think it is just impossible to hold to such a standard. Bronco is direct and honest and expects as much in return. If only more of us were like that!

Go Cougs!

This is probably more significant than we know. This is an important principle he teaches, and I love that he expects the player to abide by his commitment. I'd rather lose an occasional game with these kids and this coach, than win everything with kids with bad character. You have my vote coach.

When I heard Bronco had rescinded the scholarship offer for merely visiting another school, it seemed kinda harsh. Now knowing that it is explained before hand, it makes all the difference.

If the expectations are set before the scholarship is even offered and Kona didn't believe it, then that is no one's fault but his own.

Also if he knew the expectations and tripped to ND anyway, he really wasn't that committed.

I have to laugh at those who think Bronco's standard is unreasonable with regards to commitment. As if somehow it represents personal perfection. How hard is it to say "I want to play at BYU, and BYU wants me to play for them. Cool. Why would I consider going somewhere else?" If you were raised in the 60s through the 80s, it seems as though such an idea is truly impossible. But that's yet more of the nonsense of those days.

For the kid who is playing the calculation game as if the NFL is a foregone conclusion and college is merely a salary negotiation tool, this standard is a filter. That kid isn't a fit.

Does that mean BYU won't have top 5 performance year in and year out? If it does, so be it. Such a thing would be secondary. But I wouldn't count Bronco out on this. If there IS a way to make that happen even WITH this standard, then I predict Bronco will make it happen.

Bronco is 100% in the right. This is a no nonsense way of doing business. Every choice, every action has a result and that is the real lesson. The standard is easy to live up to. Do what you say you will do period end of story. That is not just football it is life.

Bronco is an amazing coach and an amazing man. I sometimes wonder why other coaches don't follow that pattern, especially at the "elite" schools where you don't "need" players. Why deal with the nonsense? Just say what you say and mean what you mean.

The key word is "almost". Bronco stood right next to a BYU position coach while that position coach told my son and I that he was offering him a scholarship in a few weeks. BYU never offered that scholarship, just like the many times they have pulled that deceitful stunt to many Utah players.

Bronco can say all he wants about commitments, but BYU plays recruiting games as much or more than all the other schools in the country. He just cares about commitments, and being duped, when it happens to him. Otherwise, all is fair in love and war.

Broco knows the key to success in his system is to have 100% commitment from his player--both on and off the field. This is so important that he sets the stage early and clearly during the recruiting process.

This process both attracts high caliber young men and weeds out those with other priorities.

Way to go Bronco--this is the right approach!

I love this coach!

Yeah, teach the parents! Why do you think there are so many flaky kids out there? Parents DO need teaching, believe it or not. And commitment is a subject that has gone by the wayside in these times, beginning with uncommitted marriages and fathers and mothers, and politicians and all the rest.

Who'd have thought we'd bring it back around through football?

Go Bronco!

Mr. Almost Admirable - give a name or it seems fake.

To: Almost Admirable

I would like to hear "the other side of the story". There are always two sides of any story. Maybe someone knows about this incident - if so, please enlghten us - no need to use names, to avoid embarassment, but it would be very enlighening to know. Maybe this is another troll that is making stuff up. Could it be? Just a thought.

Almost Admirable at 5:52

My Son, My Son.....The point is, Your Baby Boy was "Not" offered a scholarship, "By Bronco", now was he?

If your Son had been offered a scholarship, Bronco would have honored that, No?

Several, of this years class, did not play or had injuries their Senior year, and yet Bronco still did not drop them, did he?

We've seen Fathers ruining their Son's athletic careers for years, Pollards, Marinovich, Clough, etc.....blah blah blah. Are you one of those Daddies.

Have the guts and go public with your story and name yourself and others.

I suspect you read alot more into a "Conversation with an Assistant Coach" than you should have.

I hope your Son realized his dreams and I hope you stayed out of the way.

bluto

Part of Bronco's recruiting process is getting to know a kid and his family.

Maybe Bronco was gettting to know the attitudes and attributes of good old Dad, and seeing what a bitter man he was, decided they they did not need a "Craig James" hanging around their campus for the next 4 or 5 years.

Both my son, and his teammate, had the same experience as you and your son with Bronco and BYU. They were both told they would be given scholarships, and then when the dust settled, at the end of the football season, BYU said we are out of scholarships now, and we want you both to walk-on. Nice commitment I thought.