BYU football: Don’t blame the coaches for Cougars’ struggles

BYU football’s current roster

Currently, BYU football has 12 players who have been recruited out of high school by Sitake and are currently on the active roster (many more are on missions or are no longer with the Cougars). Of those, only three of them have even seen significant playing time this season: Chaz Ah You, Troy Warner and Aleva Hifo.

As far as transfers, 13 players have joined since Sitake has taken over. Of those, only Jonah Trinnaman has seen significant playing time.

That means that currently out of the 22 starters and perhaps 35 players who rotate constantly into the game, only four of them have been recruited to play the style they are asking to be played.

Tanner Mangum was recruited for a the spread offense. So were Tejan Koroma, Squally Canada, Matt Bushman and Austin Hoyt.

Asking these players to play a different playing style is like someone asking you write with your bad hand. Yes you can do it. Yes practice will make it better, however it will never be the same as writing with your natural hand.

Do I agree with the change? Yes. The change has to happen at some point. If Detmer waited another year to make these changes, Mangum would struggle even more next year and the Cougars would be going through the same painful struggles that we see in right now.