The Corner being that they are acting more like a ranked team then a wantabe team. Bronco used to drive us all crazy with his Nat Champ rhetoric when he had a bunch of average, very hard working, disciplined but yet average players here at BYU.
Two and three star players will only get you so far and that was all Bronco could ever get to sign. It was his “football is fifth on his list of priorities” rhetoric. Sitake comes in and in his first year is 8 points from a undefeated season and that got every recruit’s attention…and fast.
Sitake is the real deal…He took Bronco’s recruits and gave us a season we could be proud of. The naysayers would say that we won the games we should have and lost the ones that we were supposed to. I say that it was the way BYU competed in every game, no blowouts that tells me that we are in for greatness again.
Just some personal observations:
We have three head coach prospects on this team, maybe more…Detmer surely showed that he was more than a name. ( watched the Bret Farve story on the NFL channel this week and the “nickel story” was there in all it’s glory) Detmer is a genius football mind. Lamb from SSU will be hard to keep here…everyone knows he is the real deal.
BYU will be lead by elite QB Tanner Mangum. He has three years of experience (used his redshirt before the mission). I would hate to face this team this year with Tanner running the show.
BYU finally has real talent in the backfield on defense. BYU has never had this kind of talent, speed on defense…then it is hard to score through the air, and with BYU’s record at stopping the run, could be a special year.
Our lines on both sides of the ball sound like they are two bodies deep…we gonna need it when elite teams come to town.
LBs may be the best in the nation…but I am hearing that there is something up with Bernard???
Everyone talks about our lack of names at Running Back and Receiver… Canada and Burt may be the first names you hear but Hall really impressed me last year, Dye seems to be a deceptive flanker/Jurgen type guy to me, Fonua is a special player and my darkhorse…and Tolutau just has my full attention.
So yeah, in past years we were fed a lot of blue koolade but this year I am “feeling” like we have a chance to be special (sorry, Lavelle, I know I stole your favorite saying)