As long as Coach Law keeps one of his non-hitting sons on the roster in place of better athletes, BYU baseball will continue to struggle.

Truly a lot of good LDS talent around the country and coach Law has proven ineffective at recruiting very much of it-ignoring some real gems in his own backyard and all over the nation.

May well be time for some new blood in the baseball department in Provo.

Having a non-hiting son isn't the problem. Didn't you read the article? Defense (117 errors) and pitching (7+ ERA) is where they need to defend. If Law can improve the D and pitching, I don't care if his son is on the team or not.

Let's bring back some tradition in baseball too. Time for a change and some serious recruiting..

It's college baseball. The best players go to the minor leagues out of high school.

I don't know how so many great local players can play for national powerhouses, yet be ignored by BYU. Quit thinking that out of state is always better.

Utah produces a lot of pitching talent. Just check out the minor league rosters. BYU lets way too many local pitchers get away. Just last year Mahler(great season at Arkansas), Robles (ups & downs at OSU but he's gonna be tough), Gunn (SLCC great year), Smith
(Southern Nevada good year), Abbot (tough year in the minors but a stud), Anderson( the Utes got a good one there).
With that level of pitching locally, BYU needs to do a better job recruiting. After all in college baseball the number #1 quality for a coach is his ability to recruit.

Maybe the baseball staff should follow the lead of football and start actively recruiting missionaries while they are still on their missions? We must have a number of baseball players going to other universities who are currently serving missions.

BYU goes after the locals. From your statement it is obvious that they choose to go elsewhere and the most likely don't have the grades or desire to go to BYU. Not the fault of BYU.

It is obvious they chose to go somewhere else. The point of recruiting is to get them to your school. I have no idea how heavily BYU recruited those individual kids, but it just appears to be a pattern.

BYU recruits relatively lightly in both Utah and Idaho and it's true that many players go star elsewhere. And the fact that most great high school players go to the minors out of high school is just further reason the Cougars should be a national power. It's not like in football where a power conference or two obviously get the best talent, because the minor leagues have that in baseball and it should level that playing field. We need to get rollin. Baseball is a great great game and Provo could be as good as anywhere, if not better.

A couple of thoughts....BYU should recruit more seriously in Southern Nevada where great high school baseball is played year round. I can think of 6-8 LDS high school players in Las Vegas this year who could help BYU tremendously if given the chance. Also, having been to the BYU elite camps, it appears the staff should put more emphasis on defensive players and not just the guys who can hit it far occasionally.

Winning is the answer. It solved the problem for Bronco. It solved the problem for Dave.

Coach Law knows he was hired to win. He has again suffered through the kind of under-acheiving season which usually drives the "search committee" to find a replacement.

Players want to come to Provo to play for Bronco. Many players want to come to Provo to play for Dave.

Coach Law has a difficult time recruiting players to come to Provo. Losing will do that to you.

The mighty cougars think they are all world in everything-just ask Jace Brinkerhoff. Freshman All-American playing at UVU! B.Y.U. asked him to walk on. What a JOKE! This kind of thing happens all the time at the Universit. They take for granted that everyone begs to play there. B.Y.U. needs to come down from the pedestal and Law needs to realize A LOT of LOCALS are great players.

been there done that...you are a Utah kid, your mormon come walk on and be a part of a great university...sorry I have other options...when was the last or the first time you saw a BYU coach at a high school or even better a summer game or a tournament in Utah...local players would play at BYU but not when they feel they need to go out of state..yes better competition and more of it in California...but really you expect more next year with the same players...give us all a break...maybe some should not be given scholarships...I talked to one BYU player and I asked him how he was recruited to the Y...he said he was playing summer ball for a team in Missouri and his coach called Law and said he had a Mormon that he thought could play for you..Law never saw him play but the kid is playing at he Y today...that is recruiting..

at least he was ask to walk on...I know a player that was told they hope to see him in two years after he went to JC...

I know of 2 guys that skipped BYU's offers and went to UVU just this year, following in the footsteps of Brinkerhoff. And, YES - they both could get into school and live the honor code at BYU, just so you self-righteous people out there have that covered!

lots of local talent avaliable. Maybe coach law likes the free travel out of state to recuit. a fifteen to twenty minute trip to lone peak or bimgham or alta or riverton or many other local schools would help fill a roster void of pitching and full of honor code champions. get with it vance or look for a new job

ly there were 8 local players on the roster...there are 4 more coming in '09...so much for local talent. the team needs hard nosed players not misionaries! the performers over the years have tough mentality, missions unfortunately soften players. football is different...a tougher player mentality...thats why it doesnt affect them as much.
if you take mcnaughton, musso, parker, ko, walton, muir, and wortham, you have the makeup needed. only 1 mission player...everyone has a bad year.
prev local players, no missions...saylor, nelson, hiestand, barrett, woolf, nakayama, jensen, and more. it is very, very hard to get a non lds west coast player to byu because of grades and make-up...you need to know what you are talking about folks. add 3 days travel a week to a hs 2.5 gpa player at byu....ha! wont last 2 semesters...the other sports do not miss 25-30 days of class during a semester...try it brainiacts...tough job to put a top team on the field AND win over 30 games..'09 will be different with 10 seniors, 10 juniors..dont give up on byu...the coaches and players will be back!!

local, local, local, why would a coach want to recruit in a small state such as utah, when he could go out of state and get far better athletes who have played at much higher levels than that at any utah high school. LDS potential baseball players who have been recruited highly by other schools wonder why BYU even consider any local talent when many lds-potential baseball player outside the state. The reason why I believe BYU continues to struggle is because they do not go outside such a small venue of athletes that Utah produces.