Does BYU football need more ‘ready made’ talent as Big 12 nears?

By Jay Drew, Deseret News: For years, especially when team recruiting rankings are released by the various websites that award stars to high school prospects, BYU football coaches have liked to point out that they are a developmental program.

Knowing they aren’t going to lure a lot of four- and five-star athletes away from Power Five programs — unless that recruit has a longstanding tie to BYU, such as membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors the private school — the Cougars have put a lot of focus on finding diamonds in the rough and other less-recruited players and developing them on their own.

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