Football: Here's how Stevens eliminated BYU
I got the following information from a source a few days ago, but have been sitting on it although the source has been spot on accurate with everything in the past. Heard the same story from somebody else today (who is independent of my first source), so I am going to go with it....
Here's what went down with Hamani Stevens' elimination of BYU as a college football choice:
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall visited Hamani and his family on Wednesday night. When Mendenhall asked for a commitment, Hamani told the coach he wanted to take an unofficial campus visit to UCLA this weekend before deciding for sure.
Mendenhall then asked Hamani whether he was serious about BYU or not. Hamani said something about always wanting to go to a Pac-10 school and that his parents want him to play close to home.
(The same parents who sent a son to play at UTEP, by the way).
Upon hearing that, Mendenhall stood up, wished the player and his family well and told them he hopes Hamani has a great career at UCLA.
The next day, Hamani told a reporter from Rivals.com that BYU was off his BYU-or-Oregon list and had been replaced by UCLA.
He answered a texted question from me with one word (Yes!), confirming the Rivals.com story, but has not returned any other texts or phone calls.
Hence, I haven't confirmed what happened in his living room Wednesday night with somebody who was actually there.
But it is an interesting story and sheds a little more light on what goes on in this crazy process we call recruiting, so I thought I would pass it on.
Here's what went down with Hamani Stevens' elimination of BYU as a college football choice:
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall visited Hamani and his family on Wednesday night. When Mendenhall asked for a commitment, Hamani told the coach he wanted to take an unofficial campus visit to UCLA this weekend before deciding for sure.
Mendenhall then asked Hamani whether he was serious about BYU or not. Hamani said something about always wanting to go to a Pac-10 school and that his parents want him to play close to home.
(The same parents who sent a son to play at UTEP, by the way).
Upon hearing that, Mendenhall stood up, wished the player and his family well and told them he hopes Hamani has a great career at UCLA.
The next day, Hamani told a reporter from Rivals.com that BYU was off his BYU-or-Oregon list and had been replaced by UCLA.
He answered a texted question from me with one word (Yes!), confirming the Rivals.com story, but has not returned any other texts or phone calls.
Hence, I haven't confirmed what happened in his living room Wednesday night with somebody who was actually there.
But it is an interesting story and sheds a little more light on what goes on in this crazy process we call recruiting, so I thought I would pass it on.
1 Comments:
Good for Bronco. There comes a point where you have to fish or cut bait. Bronco is simply freeing a scholie for someone who knows why playing for BYU is great thing.
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