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“I think McCae is going to come in there and he’s going to take the starting spot this year. He’s gonna come in and turn heads right away,” Smith told host Ben Criddle.
“That’s not to knock on the other guys that are there, but this kid, if he can stay healthy, he’s a very unique talent who can do some things that he’s done since he was a sophomore. He’s played in big-time games and he’s clutch. He’s so humble and he wants to learn, he wants to come see me two or three days a week and he’s driving down the Spanish Fork.”
Smith has worked extensively over the years with a myriad of college QBs, including former Cougars Zach Wilson and Jaren Hall, both on NFL rosters.
BYU has a lot of QB’s who are thinking the same thing. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. I just hope the coaching staff, particularly on the offensive side of the ball has the wherewithall to make the right decision and that it results in wins. I don’t care who it is, just win the games.
I for one thinks he has a better than normal chance because he is a “mobile” QB which ARod loves to have (Wilson and Hall), but look at a pocket passer like Slovis and look how well ARod did with that?
As long as ARod is coaching the QB’s and calling the plays (OC) I have ZERO confidence any QB will do well.
Sorry, ARod coaching abilities is “the issue” for this upcoming year for BYU football in my opinion.
Heard the same thing about every OC since I started at BYU in 1977. Everyone wants absolute perfection with no mistakes. 12-0. Even with that, there are those who complain about the OC’s.
Yep! Last 40 years! Naw, Scovil was the great innovator. But he had many complain about not building a running attack. Lavell had his too. Everyone does about something. I complained about Rose and his weave offense. You complain and so does everyone else. Glad we have head coaches that are willing to take the lead and the heat.
And OC’s that make some of the worst judgement errors that I can remember. OC’s that do the complete opposite of what is obvious and rely on trickery and gadgets to be successful, so much so that it leads to failure when doing the basics would win games.
Nope
part of BYU football of letting less than marginal coaches linger here longer than probably anywhere else.
BUT they may have turned a corner with hiring and PAYING Young and other bb coaches and treating this as a business.
Any real business mind would have cut Arod loose 2 years ago and for sure last year for his results.
Again, a REAL business mind - so we all know who that eliminates!
Ding Ding Ding. Bonus clue - his moniker starts with an „H“
But remember, we have Arod in charge of the QBs. The same one woo has not had a good QB season from any QB he didn’t inherit from Detmer. The same one who has not recruited a single impact QB—from high school or from the portal—in 7 years. So I think it’s fair to be pretty skeptical until he proves it on the field.
Credit Fesi for getting the Nacuas back—that alone probably has saved Arod’s job.
last year, before the season, I said. “insider info., Sitake does not enforce the rules on his elite players, Hill does.”
hill has really impressed with what he had to work with and…he recruited a lot of big time talent and as I said, "a little birdie told me that if Sitake hitches his future to Arod and as Tom says, Who has Arod recrited?, and we have another poor season, Sitake id gone, Hill is in.
I have to laugh at this statement… Only you would come up with some lame comment like this. Which by the way, you cannot back up with any proof.
Scovil was the “genius” behind the BYU high flying air attack. He made the forward pass a thing of beauty.
I have NEVER EVER heard anyone criticized Scovil for not having a running game.
As OC
The average rushing per game was 154 yards a game, compared to his passing average per game was 368.
So, Doug used the pass 2/3 of the time and ran the ball the other 1/3 of the game.
He had three ALL-WAC running backs during that time and 1 2nd team All-American.
And for the RECORD, no fan or anyone else for that matter EVER CRITCIZED Scovil for not having a running game. The man knew his stuff and he had balance (slight edge to Passing) to his game plan.
If you say they did, provide one article that backs it up!
What Hill did in the recruiting cycle was astounding—especially wiping the floor with UofU, which has a FAR better football program than BYU.
Our defense was pretty awful last year but you can’t really take much away from that since Hill didn’t have time to recruit (even tough our best player on D WAS a kid he brought with him). But Hill recruited this year like a BOSS. He signed a BUNCH of guys with big-time offers all over the place. And he got those guys to sign with a team that is early in rebuilding mode (it was obvious last year that BYU was just not a good team. Being unable to move the ball against SHSU in the first game, epic beat downs, epic screwups, we had it all).
I’m so sick of the offensive coaches touting a bunch of signings of kids with barely any other D1 offers, and fewer still high end P4 offers. Talent is talent, and you don’t win today without it. Jay Hill will upgrade out talent, but we need it on both sides of the ball.
written by BYU’s biggest fan: Dave McCann, who makes fruity pebbles seem bland with his over the top hype of all BYU sports. Vegas says, “Not so Fast”.
Vegas says BYU will go 4.5 wins…
To refute a win total of 4.5 games requires BYU to get off to at least a 2-1 start. The Aug. 31 opener against Southern Illinois at LaVell Edwards Stadium becomes much more than a tune-up. It is a pressure-packed game to show the naysayers and an anxious fanbase that 2023′s problems are in the past.
Beating the Salukis and splitting road games at SMU (Sept. 6) and Wyoming (Sept. 14) would send BYU into Big 12 play needing three wins to rise above the Las Vegas expectations and four to become bowl eligible. (me: SMU and WY will be a BIG test)
Kansas State, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Kansas and Houston all play conference games in Provo, where the Cougars have historically been a tough team to beat. If BYU goes 3-2 at home, it will need to pick off a road win at Baylor, UCF, Utah or Arizona State to qualify for the postseason.
Not sure why you dislike McCann so much, He was brought into Utah by the Church to announce the games and write stories about BYU by the church. Do you really think he is going to bite the hand that feeds him?
It is like believing everything BYU Sports Nation says… They are bought and paid for by the church.
Harmon is a long-time homer for BYU, so he not much better. But I do like Jay Drew, his views are a little less “Fruity pebbles”.
It does not matter what the Vegas odds are… It matters what ARod does as OC. Will the offensive line improve the protection? Will the new QB actually be given a chance to work? Will ARod finally be able to be flexible about his game plan, make adjustment during and at half time?
That is why I think BYU will face-plant yet again, because they got rid of the wrong coach.
From the reports I hear, Hill has changed the way we recruit players on sides of the ball. We don’t follow ARod and Kalani old methods anymore. We sell the environment and experience more than the NIL (which parents like).
But as long as ARod is OC, our offense will be mediocre at best.
But as my favorite coach Jerry Sloan use to say, “You can have all the talent in the world, but you do not have the work ethic to become better, you are worth S**t”.
I will add “if you don’t have good coaches that help you improve, your talent and work ethic is not going to work for you either”.
So, the “Church” is corrupt? Maybe they brought him in because he exemplifies how a church member who follows Jesus Christ should behave as a fan, announcer, journalist…
