Kalani Sitake must find a few silver bullets for his football team to manage BYU’s strict admission requirements for recruits.
The enhanced walk-on and academic scholarship program might just be that golden parachute for BYU football and its challenge of filling out a roster with quality talent.
It’s a strategy recognized by former head coach Bronco Mendenhall and it is becoming more apparent with the coaches who followed him. With impending stricter admittance barriers for walk-on athletes, it has to be managed at a higher level.
As the Cougar fall camp comes to a close this week in preparation for the season opener at Arizona, there are faces that have been missed including defensive linemen Tevita Mo'unga, Oregon transfer Wayne Kirby and an expected 2018 recruit out of Juan Diego High school, Chinonso Opara, who ended up at Weber State.