Exactly! A colleague of mine who openly jokes about disliking BYU approached

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Mar 30, 2025
5:04:46pm

Polecat All-American

Exactly! A colleague of mine who openly jokes about disliking BYU approached

Me during last football season to share how she’d read an article about Jake being a Jewish player at BYU. She was surprised, she’d assumed you had to be LDS to play for BYU. She admitted she thought it was pretty cool to have multiple religions on the team like that. People notice, and it’s a good thing.

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What’s the right balance of LDS kids and elite talent?

TarCoug

Mar 30, 2:47pm

I want every 4-5 star LDS kid playing for BYU and surround them with 4-5 star non LDS athletes

JohnnyComeLately

Mar 30, 2:48pm

There's over 150 four and five stars in this class alone

tacallaway

Mar 30, 4:15pm

Shoot for 2 top 100 per class, plus the top couple of LDS HS players...

Les IsMore

Mar 30, 6:22pm

Get the best athletes you can get and will live the HC. Who cares if they’re LDS

Magneto

Mar 30, 2:50pm

This^^^

arizonacougarfan

Mar 30, 2:56pm

BYU is a missionary tool. Ty Detmer wasn’t LDS. Jimmer wasn’t active. Now look

Magneto

Mar 30, 3:10pm

... And were surrounded by, and influenced by their less athletically gifted active, RM, LDS teammates.

Black Diamond Bay

Mar 30, 3:12pm

This! You've gotta have a core of LDS players to maintain identity/culture

runnincoug

Mar 30, 6:24pm

Tom Holmoe wasn’t LDS!

andrewg3

Mar 30, 5:07pm

Since when was Jimmer not active before coming to byu? First I’ve heard of that

Mar 30, 9:12pm

That won’t fly with the powers that be and it wouldn’t work.

kansascougar

Mar 30, 3:22pm

Best lds and legacy kids are a required target

niqmadu

Mar 30, 3:27pm

We are going to get the most interest from LDS kids so we probably should skew.

johnnybyu

Mar 30, 3:28pm

I wonder if we really need some LDS players to help the non-LDS guys

thewaterboy

Mar 30, 3:39pm

RE: I wonder if we really need some LDS players to help the non-LDS guys

jimmything

Mar 30, 6:05pm

I want kids like Demin and Mag and Keita. Get those kinda

theonick

Mar 30, 4:35pm

If we land the best 5 LDS kids that leaves 10 spots for elite non LDS.

KayakCoug

Mar 30, 2:50pm

I like this approach

TarCoug

Mar 30, 3:00pm

Only if everyone is a one & done and with no returnees from the prior season.

Les IsMore

Mar 30, 6:26pm

If we can clean up on top LDS prospects this shouldn’t be a problem

ldssdl

Mar 30, 2:50pm

This. Dominate with the top LDS, BYU fits, and we’re good

cajuncoug

Mar 30, 3:57pm

Get the highly rated LDS kids, there is at least one per class, and pair them

arizonacougarfan

Mar 30, 2:51pm

My guess it is shifts to 30/70 LDS/otherwise, with fewer locals. More 4/5* LDS

seacougar

Mar 30, 2:53pm

Can you imagine having a bunch of high level guys like Egor who loves BYU

JohnnyC

Mar 30, 2:54pm

Don’t care if they’re “local” but getting top LDS players should always be a priority.

Soupie

Mar 30, 2:55pm

Think about why Egor loves byu. It’s largely due to trev and Trey

Veep

Mar 30, 4:27pm

And maybe Delaney…

UMWolverine

Mar 30, 8:26pm

I don't care about the mix as long as they represent the principles of BYU

BluebloodOR

Mar 30, 3:00pm

This is why I think BYU should go after private Christian school kids,

Polecat

Mar 30, 4:36pm

Like what is happening with Jake…..building bridges with the Jewish community.

JohnnyC

Mar 30, 4:42pm

Exactly! A colleague of mine who openly jokes about disliking BYU approached

Polecat

Mar 30, 5:04pm

I think you need 3-4 LDS kids, 3-4 outwardly religious kids (e.g. Fouss), then

runnincoug

Mar 30, 3:02pm

This is the way. I think some people forget the Gary Crowton era.

Submariner

Mar 30, 3:09pm

Crowton got in trouble by recruiting non-LDS kids who didn’t live the Honor Code

75Coug

Mar 30, 3:55pm

Which is why you need to maintain a strong locker room culture with at least 3-4

Submariner

Mar 30, 4:35pm

** Non-LDS kids who didn't know there was such a thing as the honor code.

Soupie

Mar 30, 4:36pm

Thanks for making the point. Each one of those kids signed the honor code, they

Submariner

Mar 30, 5:13pm

😄 They sign several things but the HC was not pointed out or explained.

Soupie

Mar 30, 6:40pm

Fear mongering and false rumors!

theonick

Mar 30, 4:40pm

They didn’t just not live the HC. They broke the law.

Boring

Mar 30, 6:12pm

I think BYU will end up going after kids that are at least 90 on the composite

Mar 30, 3:07pm

I hear a lot of fans say they don’t care if the players are LDS, but not having LDS players on a team would completely

Nuke

Mar 30, 3:08pm

As many as we need for a natty

Mar 30, 3:10pm

Sounds very DEI up in here all the sudden

DodgerCoug

Mar 30, 3:17pm

Yes and no. We are going to get majority of interest from LDS players so we sho

johnnybyu

Mar 30, 3:26pm

I think we need to be 60-40 No reason to round out the bench with non-LDS

johnnybyu

Mar 30, 3:27pm

Yep! All the non-scholie kids for sure!

theonick

Mar 30, 4:41pm

I personally don't care, but we should have first dibs on all the best LDS kids.

LSUcougar92

Mar 30, 5:36pm

Local kids or LDS kids? Only 36% of the student body is from Utah

Cooouuugs

Mar 30, 6:12pm

Whatever the mix is to win it all.

sah22

Mar 30, 7:33pm

50/50 is my preference/comfort level. With all the non LDS talent we had on

Mar 30, 8:38pm

Why do we care what their religion is? Seems like religious bigotry to me.

chet

Mar 30, 8:39pm

I don’t think anyone cares what religion anyone is, but it does stand to reason that having teammates who are members of

UMWolverine

Mar 30, 8:52pm

The whole premise of the post of having the right number of lds and non lds

chet

Mar 30, 9:34pm

The OP talks about the right “balance” and the need to continue to have a “mix” of LDS and non LDS players. Is he/she

UMWolverine

Mar 31, 6:56am

Yes

chet

Mar 31, 8:02am

Okay

UMWolverine

Mar 31, 8:07am

He is advocating for religious discrimination.

chet

Mar 31, 10:26am

Okay

UMWolverine

Mar 31, 10:42am

I played football in 1970 and lived in John hall

cougarchill

Mar 30, 8:45pm

Are those mutually exclusive?

CoolB

Mar 30, 9:07pm

What about the balance for fans? 99/1? 90/10?

Orpington

Mar 30, 9:32pm

I don’t believe there should be quotas (too many stars or too many LDS kids)

44C

Mar 30, 9:36pm

Amen. The whole premise of this post is discriminatory and smacks of affirmative

chet

Mar 30, 9:42pm

Not sure why you and many others specify “local”. I don’t think any preference

NYC and Japan

Mar 30, 10:16pm

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