One thing that jumps out to me regarding next year's schedule is that BYU will face some pretty athletic QBs in their nonconference schedule. That Locker kid from Washington is a stud and the redshrit freshman that Nevada played last night had wheels.

It will be interesting to see how BYU defends them next year.

If we have a defense that is ok we should be able to outscore everyone on our schedule next year with the offensive talent we have returning. 4 starters on the O line is huge (I could be wrong on that number but that is what I remember.) 3 great RBs plus JJ. At WR we loose Allen but return Collie and Reed is listed as a jr...is that right? 3 good/great TE that are underclassmen now. We've all seen Hall's potential at Qb adn he will only get better. Our kicking game will be amazing with that kid from timpview. We'll have a good DL, and we should be ok at LB but inexperianced. I don't really know a lot about our DBs next year but our new DB coach is great so we should be ok there at worst. We do have to win our toughest conference games on the road, but I'm really likeing what I see for next year.

Reed is a JR, and the new kicker is from Bingham High school

Our LB's aren't that inexperienced. Nixon is back, and Doman is playing quite a bit (50% of the game.) This season Bauman is getting some good reps. We have some other great LBs in the wings ready to go as well.

Secondary we lose all the starters, but BYU had a very solid DB class last year and this year as well. Tafuna is redshirting and will return. BYU has really improved it's depth in the secondary and there is little drop off now when someone is subbed in. The defense will be reloading, not rebuilding.

Yme wrote:

If we have a defense that is ok we should be able to outscore everyone on our schedule next year with the offensive talent we have returning. 4 starters on the O line is huge (I could be wrong on that number but that is what I remember.) 3 great RBs plus JJ. At WR we loose Allen but return Collie and Reed is listed as a jr...is that right? 3 good/great TE that are underclassmen now. We've all seen Hall's potential at Qb adn he will only get better. Our kicking game will be amazing with that kid from timpview. We'll have a good DL, and we should be ok at LB but inexperianced. I don't really know a lot about our DBs next year but our new DB coach is great so we should be ok there at worst. We do have to win our toughest conference games on the road, but I'm really likeing what I see for next year.

I have liked Sorensen at center when Aulai was out ( I think he played better)

Think ahead even further to 2009 when McKay Jacobson,Austin Colliem JJ Diluigi, HArvey Unga, Dennis Pitta, and Max Hall are all on the field at the same time.

vancouvercougar wrote:

Yme wrote:

If we have a defense that is ok we should be able to outscore everyone on our schedule next year with the offensive talent we have returning. 4 starters on the O line is huge (I could be wrong on that number but that is what I remember.) 3 great RBs plus JJ. At WR we loose Allen but return Collie and Reed is listed as a jr...is that right? 3 good/great TE that are underclassmen now. We've all seen Hall's potential at Qb adn he will only get better. Our kicking game will be amazing with that kid from timpview. We'll have a good DL, and we should be ok at LB but inexperianced. I don't really know a lot about our DBs next year but our new DB coach is great so we should be ok there at worst. We do have to win our toughest conference games on the road, but I'm really likeing what I see for next year.

I have liked Sorensen at center when Aulai was out ( I think he played better)

Think ahead even further to 2009 when McKay Jacobson,Austin Collie, JJ Diluigi, Harvey Unga, Dennis Pitta, and Max Hall are all on the field at the same time.

jgrantr wrote:

TCU will be earlier in the year, with Wyoming and New Mexico later in the year.

I like how this year we switched TCU to later in the year. Any reason we can't start moving Wyoming up to October? Spending every other November there is a real pain, with their weather...