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BYU football recruiting: Analyzing the good and the bad of the 2017 class

For many years now, college football fans in the state of Utah have heard the narrative that Kalani Sitake is an excellent recruiter.

Having been hired as BYU’s head football coach late during the 2016 recruiting cycle, he was limited as far as how much of an impact he could make on the Cougars’ class, meaning that 2017 was the first time the “Kalani Effect” could really be seen.

So how did he and the rest of his still relatively inexperienced coaching staff do on Wednesday’s Signing Day? As is always the case, there was some good and areas where the staff seems to have missed.