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Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T20:17:39-06:00

I don't think Bronco ever "counts on" any freshman, if he gets something out of them, it's a bonus. And it doesn't matter if they leave at age 18 or age 19, they still leave, they're in the pool of "missionaries" and you count two more years before they return. They're age when leaving is irrelevant.

Statistics: Posted by golong — Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:17 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T20:08:13-06:00

Good point, would a higher test score get a kid into the Y?

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:08 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T20:04:21-06:00

It might actually help. I know I was a much better student and "study-er" after serving my mission than before.

Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:04 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T19:53:33-06:00

Probably should help a lot. They would be in school 4-5 years instead of 6-7 years. I am trying to figure out if it would help kids who serve then go the JC route.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:53 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T19:51:08-06:00

What's the potential impact on academic progress and graduation rates?

As long as the players leave in good academic standing they should be ok. If they leave before attending, then it won't be a factor.

Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:51 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T19:23:09-06:00

What's the potential impact on academic progress and graduation rates?

Statistics: Posted by HoosierCougar — Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:23 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T09:10:52-06:00

Scholarships will be available, we just won't get the kids we normally do. We will probably get more JC guys to fill the gap.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:10 am

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T08:25:29-06:00

It could/can hurt considerably in the short term. BYU potentially could lose almost an entire recruiting class.

BYU could potentially have TWICE as many recruits/players leaving on missions this year, without an equal amount of return missionaries returning.

The Cougars might have basically been put on probation with reduced scholarships for the next few years.

Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:25 am

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-07T09:12:41-06:00

Consider if all of our recruits serve before playing ball then you only lose your senior class. The revolving door will slow down quite a bit for planning purposes. What would be crazy is that in 2-3 years there might be more kids returning than normal. Will we have enough scholarships for them when they return?

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:54 pm

Re: Does the Mission age change help or hurt?

2012-10-06T15:41:19-06:00

It's actually going to hurt in the near-term. Because Bronco is now going to have to juggle 19-year-olds AND 18-year-olds leaving on missions. It's going to be really difficult until the rhythm of the two groups starts to stabilize.

There are potentially several recruits in the class that Bronco signs in Feb that he might be counting on next year that are now going to go straight on a mission instead of enrolling.

I think it helps in the near term, a lot. Basically it just relaxes a constraint. Obviously you don't HAVE to go right when you turn 18, but now a kid can leave whenever is best, whereas before he had to wait until he turned 19 which was usually during his Freshman year which disrupts things quite a bit.

The other thing that will change is that since a kid can leave right after HS, he doesn't need to sign a LOI before his mission ... so football programs that don't value missionary service (ever program except BYU) won't be able to get kids on campus under the pretense of letting them serve after their freshman year, and then switching the bait. Also, while BYU will not actively recruit any currently serving elders, missionaries currently have a way of seeing the light and transferring to BYU (Hill, Nelson, etc, etc) now they won't have to transfer, just apply.

Statistics: Posted by BerliNY — Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:41 pm