Football: Aiono heading (back) to Utah
Snow College football coach Steve Coburn confirmed today that preseason All-American defensive end James Aiono has indeed committed to the University of Utah.
Aiono is so firm in his commitment that Snow coaches are not listing him among their recruitable players, a list they send out to Division I schools every year, Coburn said.
Aiono is the 6-foot-3, 275-pounder out of Murray High who signed with Utah in February of 2007 but did not qualify academically and went to Snow. He had an outstanding freshman season at Ephraim, and is listed as a five-star recruit by Scout.com.
"He's definitely better than he was when we got him, and he was dang good then," Coburn said.
The Snow coach said that Aiono tinkered with the idea of opening up his recruitment again, but after meeting with Utah coaches Kyle Whittingham and Gary Andersen, decided to re-commit to the Utes.
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As outlined on our BYU sports blog, Snow College is getting one recruit who failed to qualify academically for BYU (Atem Bol), but the other (Seta Pohahau) is going to sit out this season and re-take the college admission tests rather than go to a junior college.
However, Snow is getting Kahuku (Haw.) lineman Anthony Siilata, the recruit who signed with Oregon State. Siilata was one of those Kahuku guys who committed to Utah, then apparently de-committed a week later.
He failed to qualify academically, and is now bound for Snow.
Another Kahuku product, Benji Kemoeatu (I know, longtime RT readers, I promised not to bring up his name again) also did not qualify.
Coburn said that Snow offered him a spot, too, but that the last he heard Kemoeatu was going to attend West Virginia as a Prop 49 student, which means he has to pay his own way and will not be eligible to play football his first year.
My guess is that he can afford it, with two brothers (both former Utes) in the NFL.
-- Jay Drew
Aiono is so firm in his commitment that Snow coaches are not listing him among their recruitable players, a list they send out to Division I schools every year, Coburn said.
Aiono is the 6-foot-3, 275-pounder out of Murray High who signed with Utah in February of 2007 but did not qualify academically and went to Snow. He had an outstanding freshman season at Ephraim, and is listed as a five-star recruit by Scout.com.
"He's definitely better than he was when we got him, and he was dang good then," Coburn said.
The Snow coach said that Aiono tinkered with the idea of opening up his recruitment again, but after meeting with Utah coaches Kyle Whittingham and Gary Andersen, decided to re-commit to the Utes.
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As outlined on our BYU sports blog, Snow College is getting one recruit who failed to qualify academically for BYU (Atem Bol), but the other (Seta Pohahau) is going to sit out this season and re-take the college admission tests rather than go to a junior college.
However, Snow is getting Kahuku (Haw.) lineman Anthony Siilata, the recruit who signed with Oregon State. Siilata was one of those Kahuku guys who committed to Utah, then apparently de-committed a week later.
He failed to qualify academically, and is now bound for Snow.
Another Kahuku product, Benji Kemoeatu (I know, longtime RT readers, I promised not to bring up his name again) also did not qualify.
Coburn said that Snow offered him a spot, too, but that the last he heard Kemoeatu was going to attend West Virginia as a Prop 49 student, which means he has to pay his own way and will not be eligible to play football his first year.
My guess is that he can afford it, with two brothers (both former Utes) in the NFL.
-- Jay Drew
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