Hengst wrote:

stuckinbig10country wrote:

The Utes pushed hard for Riley out of high school, and Riley followed his heart and went with the team that he grew up being a fan of. I don't know why he ended up changing his mind, I guess we'll find out more either later this week, as his father says, or when he returns home.

The Utes are pissed because they have a hole at QB after Johnson, and Nelson would have fit nicely there. That offense is made for his skills. Don't think that the Utes weren't out there trying to get in contact with Nelson. All in-state LDS athletes (especially the good to great ones) are contacted by the local schools about a year after they have been out on their mission to gage interest.

I thought they were all high on louks? Some were even saying that he should start over johnson this year. I think they think he is the second coming of steve smith, but throwing the ball.

From what anyone has seen in games, Louks can't throw the ball.

stuckinbig10country wrote:

Hengst wrote:

stuckinbig10country wrote:

The Utes pushed hard for Riley out of high school, and Riley followed his heart and went with the team that he grew up being a fan of. I don't know why he ended up changing his mind, I guess we'll find out more either later this week, as his father says, or when he returns home.

The Utes are pissed because they have a hole at QB after Johnson, and Nelson would have fit nicely there. That offense is made for his skills. Don't think that the Utes weren't out there trying to get in contact with Nelson. All in-state LDS athletes (especially the good to great ones) are contacted by the local schools about a year after they have been out on their mission to gage interest.

I thought they were all high on louks? Some were even saying that he should start over johnson this year. I think they think he is the second coming of steve smith, but throwing the ball.

From what anyone has seen in games, Louks can't throw the ball.

That might be clear to you and me. I'm just saying, the way I've heard some Utah fans talk about him, you'd think he was going to be the next Alex Smith. Which, if that's what they really believe, makes it weird that they would really care about Riley coming to BYU.

Nice to be in a position of not panicking when we lose a recruit and being pleased when we get one.

Frankly I would trust our system to produce a reasonable QB/DB/LB/YOUNAMEIT if a top prospect left. Do I sense the same from the yewts?

stuckinbig10country wrote:

Don't think that the Utes weren't out there trying to get in contact with Nelson. All in-state LDS athletes (especially the good to great ones) are contacted by the local schools about a year after they have been out on their mission to gage interest.

I am just curious about how contacting missionaries about transferring falls under the realm of the NCAA bylaws. As far as I understand, athletes can't be recruited by a new university unless they approach you and the university has written permission of the old insitution's AD. It sounds like Nielson's parents talked to BYU which is just fine as long as BYU had permission before it actually started recruiting him. If the yewt coaches are contacting people on missions without permission, I think that qualifies as an NCAA infraction.

This is what the NCAA Bylaws state:

13.1.1.3 "An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution's athletics director..."

ammoncougar1 wrote:

What a crack up! I just browsed Utefans.net to see what they were saying and you would think we just signed Brian Johnson away from them. Will someone please tell me how the heck they are even involved in this situation? What a joke! Oh, and while you're at it I would absolutely love to have a link to Bronco's alleged statements regarding not contacting missionaries while they are serving. And finally, (I know. Preaching to the choir here) when will they realize it is not hypocrisy to preach staying true to your commitments and then allowing (encouraging?) others to break their commitments to make new ones with you? My understanding of this (this would make the utefans even more irate :-) ) is that this is a lot like missionary work where we teach people the WHOLE truth and they change from one commitment to the RIGHT commitment! Ha! Ha!

Go Cougs!!!

The way I see it, Riley must have gained a greater understanding of repentance in the mission field.