The jump to the Big-12 will mean more resources, but it will also mean 'difficulties and roadblocks' to overcome.
Brigham Young Cougars head coach Kalani Sitake visits with Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham during warm-ups before football action between the Utah Utes and the Brigham Young Cougars at Lavell Edwards Stadium in Provo, on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021.• This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.
Sitake, in his notes for the future, emphasized how Utah needed to add depth to compete at the Power Five level. After all, Sitake learned the hard way what an introduction to the Power Five can look like without depth. Utah went from a 10-win season in 2010, to winning an average of just six games for the next three years. It took the program five years to build depth strong enough to get back to a 10-win pace.
“I’ve been through this rodeo already,” Sitake said. “We can’t have a huge gap from one-to-two. Or one-to-three. We have to play quality depth.”Recruits have always loved Sitake and his avuncular style. The stories about what he is like on the recruiting trail are exactly what you would expect for a head coach who has tried to make his name synonymous with “family.”
How that manifested isn’t necessarily obvious. BYU is coming off back-to-back 10-win seasons. But the depth is a question mark. BYU’s recruiting classes have ranked No. 84, 81 and 71 nationally in the last three years, according to 247Sports. That is not high enough to build out an entire roster of talent that can be competitive in the Power Five.
After this class, BYU is being more competitive with who it is offering. 23 players are outside of Utah. And 13 have four-stars or higher, according to 247Sports.
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