I am someone who has only closely followed recruiting the past 3 or so years so I wondered if someone could inform me (and others who might be interested) a little about some of our incoming return missionaries. I understand Mahuika has a lot of people excited.

More like nervous when he is doing punt returns. Too bad.

Since you brought it up...

I don't think nervousness is at all warranted with Mahuika returning. I haven't looked at his stats, but how many has he dropped.

No, not nervous. More like resignation to the fact that he'll most likely end up less than ten yards from where he caught the ball. Mahuika is really fast--on a track. But on the field his speed is swamped by his indecisiveness. Collie excels because he quickly takes a read and goes with it. Mahuika needs about a step more to accelerate to his top speed, and combined with his second guessing himself, he rarely reaches that speed.

Course with all of his injuries, it's understandable that he'd be a little gun shy and second-guessing his decisions.

Mahuika is useless. Collie on Kickoffs and Di Luigi on Punts.

Prognostication:

If Kedron Paul does not red-shirt, he will return a Kick-off for a TD this season.

Fast, short, decisive...by the time the cover team sees him, he will be gone.

Prognostication:

Paul will not play for BYU this season or next.

He is border-line academically (on the wrong side) and will likely go to a JC. He may transfer after a season or two, but won't be here this year in all likelihood unless he hits a home-run on the ACT/SAT.