Following BYU recruiting over the last 2 years has been very satisfying in the sense that there was a lot of verbal commits that came before the season, with only a few holdouts at season's end. There also seemed to be more recruits that were BYU blue, through and through. However, I think this year will require a lot more patience. With the talent that BYU is competing for and from what these recruits are saying, I think most the verbal commits won't occur until after the season is over (e.g. Filiaga, Su'a-Filo, Fanua, Wilson, Te'o, etc.). That is unless BYU either puts on the pressure or starts offering others. While I think many of these recuits are worth waiting for, it would be scary to end up on the raw end...losing both the so-called "blue-chip" recruits and other almost "blue-chip" recruits who will lose patience with BYU, like Darren Markle (at least that is what my assumption has been with Markle). With so few scholarships available, it is scary.
You would think that the recruits would be more anxious to commit with so few spots. This is what confuses me about recruits. I don't know where they get all of this money to take unofficial visits to places like Miami and LSU
and go to 10 camps. This trips/camps are
not inexpensive. Then to be
so confused about where they want to go. I know teenagers are very wishy-washy, but I swear I wasn't
that confused at that age. I guess I was more of a BYU faithful. BYU was my place from a young age. I wonder if some of these kids just want to take their official visits for fun and recieve all the preferred attention, then just commit to where they planned to go all along.
I know that recruiting can be somewhat of a crap shoot and we can't get hung up on some teenager's decision to go elsewhere when we don't know if they will end up as anything anyways. But, I enjoy recruiting and like to see who BYU will have for the future. I would much prefer to get more news during the offseason to fill up the void.
