Comments about ‘BYU football: Who will be BYU's starting quarterback this fall?’

let me be the first to say that tommorow will be the start of the lark legacy.

Please, Bronco, learn from Crowton's mistake with Olsen and DO NOT redshirt Jake Heaps this year! Let the kid play!

The last time we had the number one high school quarterback in the nation at BYU we had him on the bench and regularly substituted a former Richfield High School quarterback. Go figure!

I am excited to see the O-Line return with four starters led by Matt Reynolds and Terence Brown. That should help protect the new quarterback and provide holes for the running backs.

WOOOHOOO1

Be part of the offensive decisions, Robert Anae can't be calling the shots over there. He needs to be the TE coach not the coordinator. It seems everyone but you is aware of that, make a move.

(Charles) Nelson Riley will be the starter!!!

His work on Match Game will prove to be important.

Hall did NOT beat out Cade Cooper. The competition was dead even when Cooper had a season ending injury in the Spring Game.

Seems to me that Nelson should be ahead of the other 2, for Bronco to say that no one is ahead of anyone gives a lack of confidence vote for your returning player. That means, we are off to a bad start and we haven't even started. Its going to be a battle of minds as well as ability. The wrong mind set in the QB, that is the coaches fault.

"footwork, competitive spirit and conditioning"
How does one work on competitive spirit?
Isn't that contention, and isn't that wrong?

the QB job is Jake Heaps' too lose. no argument there. You cannot bring in the #1 rated high school QB in the world and not start him. He is the next Jimmy Clausen etc etc. You cannot afford to hurt your recruiting in the future by hooping and hollering as coaches at the site of Heaps' press conference and verbal commitment signing day and then turn around and shelf him for 2 years. Back in the days of Lavell sure you could do that under the rite of passage/seniority rule. it was different then. but now that players leave after their junior year for the pros you cannot do that. You play the best players right away. You win championships with the best players not seniority. I would still design plays for Riley Nelson who is more of an option QB but Heaps is the real deal.

Please stop using my name and saying silly things. It hurts the credibility I have worked so hard to earn!

Heaps has yet to prove anything

That was a stupid comment. He has a top ten recruit at quarterback and the potential to have a four year starter with Heaps or Munns. That can set up a great shot for a national title team with a senior who could be a 4 years starter. For the sake of everyone please understand that confidence's comment is very ignorant and probably is a girl trying to impress a guy.

The point is Heaps will be given an opportunity to prove something. If USC, Notre Dame and others can go with a true freshman and Utah should have last year earlier, then we certainly owe it to Bronco to make the right decision and support it.

O h yeah because Olsen was such a great qb, not! I am glad olsen left, he was horrible.

I second the Waaaahoooooooo. Unga back and 4 starting offensive lineman back. Who needs a quarterback. (I think any of the 4 will do well, hopefully one will be great) Go Cougs.

I think they should let heaps start and then use the wildcat with nelson because if nelson can throw like everyone is saying he can then it would be harder for the other team to interprite what he is going to do with the ball. But still focus on passing as the main source of offense and work in heaps early to get him up to where we want him in the next year.

Whatever your QB decision, please don't base it on provincial politics by giving a nod to a Utahn to "keep the fans" happy. You have a lot more fans than just live in Provo-Orem (oh heck, let's just call it the Tremonton-to-Spanish Fork megalopolis)and we deserve better. BYU is not a Utah school. It should be much bigger than that. -- former SLC resident now living in the Pacific Northwest

A “dearth” of offensive lineman and three untested quarterbacks?

I’m smelling a 5 loses this coming fall.