Byu’s coach Kalani Sitake plans to let the quarter-Arrière Jake Retzlaff speak of himself on the subject of his judicial file and the suspension of seven games for having sex before marriage, a violation of the university’s code of honor.
“First of all, I love Jake Retzlaff,” Sitake said on Tuesday during the Big 12 conference in Frisco, Texas.
“We love Jake Retzlaff and appreciate everything he did for our program. I think he would be inappropriate for me to make a statement in his situation first. I think it is his right. I think it is a private business that he can speak for himself, and I will give him the opportunity to do it.”
Retzlaff plans to transfer, according to reports, rather than returning to the program where he faced a civil prosecution accusing him of having sexually assaulted a woman at his home in 2023. The trial was recently rejected, but Sitake said that three quarters-rear will compete for the starting station in 2025, but the list of candidates does not include restlaff.
Two transfers – Treyson Bourguet from western Michigan and Bear Bachmeier from Stanford – and the Hollovers last season are in competition with McCae Hillstead. Hillstead is the last arrival after the transfer of the state of Utah.
Replacement of Retzlaff could be more a concept than a reality.
He managed the team in the rush and was responsible for more than 65% of the total offensive of the cougars on the way to a departure of 9-0 in 2024. Byu finished with a file of 11-2 and crowned the season with an eruption of 36-14 of Colorado in the Bowl of Alamo.
Byu began the 2025 season against the state of Portland on August 30 before facing Stanford (September 6), Caroline de l’Est (September 20) and Colorado (September 27).
– Brett commissioner Yormmark defends Big 12
Only one representative of the broad -class football playoffs of the Big 12 was not enough in the opinion of the Commissioner of the Brett Yormmark conference.
The Arizona State has taken Texas double to the Peach Bowl, a quarter -final in the first 12 -team playoff series, but Yormark said that its league was the “deepest football conference in America”.
The Big 12, ACC and Notre Dame support a change in the current qualifying series model, also also plan of the Big Ten and the dry to load the support with teams from their leagues.
For the 2026 season, with 16 teams that should be in the playoffs, Yormark has acquired allies who are on board the granting of automatic tenders to the five best rated conference champions, the CFP selection committee deciding in the way of allocating 11 offers. Big Ten boasts a model with its teams automatically receiving four offers, and four others going to the dry.
“We want to win it in the field. It may not be the best solution today for Big 12 … But in the long term, knowing the progress we make, the investments we make is the right format for us. And I double today on 5.”
– Scott Frost arrives with the “bad movement” towards the Nebraska
With 16 victories in five seasons to his Alma Mater Nebraska from 2018 to 2022, Scott Frost can agree that one can never go home again. He was hired as Cornhuskers coach after a 13-0 season at the UCF in 2017.
“I was fired in one direction to try to help my Alma Mater and I didn’t really want to do it. It was not a good decision,” said Frost on Tuesday. “I am lucky to go back to a place where I was much happier.”
When Gus Malzahn left the UCF to become an attacking coordinator in Florida State, the door opened for another return than Frost never felt. Now he’s back to UCF with a new perspective.
Frost, 50, worked for Los Angeles Rams as an offensive consultant last year and was presented a second time as a UCF chief coach in December.
“The greatest thing I have learned, probably. … You can do nothing alone,” said Frost, arousing many corners of the Nebraska fans base on social networks with his final and lasting lesson.
“Do not take bad work.”
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