Football: Katoa Commits to Colorado
I just got off the phone with Cottonwood High linebacker Lynn Katoa (8:30 p.m. Sunday night), and the five-star recruit has some rather stunning news.
"I just committed to Colorado," Katoa said.
I had blogged this morning about how the senior who is rated as the second-best inside linebacker in the country was getting close to a decision. But that close?
Credit Colorado's doggedness for getting Katoa. The all-stater said that no fewer than seven Colorado coaching staff members met with him today -- in Cottonwood's pressbox, of all places -- and he went with his heart in giving them a pledge.
Ironically, Katoa had returned only a few hours earlier from his visit to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. At OSU, he was hosted by quarterback Alex Cate, the former Cottonwood star. Cate's father, Scott, provided most of the funding for the luxurious press box (by high school standards) that Katoa met Colorado's coaches in today.
Katoa told me tonight that it basically came down to Colorado or Oklahoma.
He had gotten the hopes of University of Utah football fans up a little the past few weeks by declaring the Utes were in the picture, only to dash them on Sunday.
Another irony for local college football fans is that Katoa will graduate early -- thanks to the help of Brigham Young University -- so he can participate in spring drills at Colorado. He has been taking BYU independent study courses the past few months in order to do that.
"I just committed to Colorado," Katoa said.
I had blogged this morning about how the senior who is rated as the second-best inside linebacker in the country was getting close to a decision. But that close?
Credit Colorado's doggedness for getting Katoa. The all-stater said that no fewer than seven Colorado coaching staff members met with him today -- in Cottonwood's pressbox, of all places -- and he went with his heart in giving them a pledge.
Ironically, Katoa had returned only a few hours earlier from his visit to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. At OSU, he was hosted by quarterback Alex Cate, the former Cottonwood star. Cate's father, Scott, provided most of the funding for the luxurious press box (by high school standards) that Katoa met Colorado's coaches in today.
Katoa told me tonight that it basically came down to Colorado or Oklahoma.
He had gotten the hopes of University of Utah football fans up a little the past few weeks by declaring the Utes were in the picture, only to dash them on Sunday.
Another irony for local college football fans is that Katoa will graduate early -- thanks to the help of Brigham Young University -- so he can participate in spring drills at Colorado. He has been taking BYU independent study courses the past few months in order to do that.
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