Koroma out for the year

It's likely Koroma is out for the year. No confirmed reasons yet, but that's what I'm hearing.



Rumors are HC issues, and that his locker has been cleaned out.



That's about all I can say for now.

That would be bad. So next man up would be Senior walk on Parker Dawe. Another option would be having Caden Haws delay his mission for a year to fill in--but having a freshman be the main guy right off isn't fabulous either. I guess we'll see how it plays out through the spring.

The good news is at least we have the full spring and fall to figure out our best options.

I wonder if knowing this was coming is what precipitated the coaching staff getting commits from 3 OL this past week.

Fido wrote:
I wonder if knowing this was coming is what precipitated the coaching staff getting commits from 3 OL this past week.

I don't think so, I don't think this issue was discovered until the last day or two.

All 3 of the new signees are potential mission first guys so that probably makes sense.

What's more painful: 1 hour of interrogation from Jack Bauer or 1 offseason of being a BYU fan?

I hope he makes it back he's favorite to watch. He brings the nastiness that hall and collie had.

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Thanks a lot, Sitake... ;)

Please say this is some horrible lie started by a Utes fan.

Jay Drew, Gordon Monson or Hans Olsen have not yet tweeted, so it's not true.

We need to stop this thread in its tracks. Duff Tittle sent out a strong rebuke on this topic. At this point, this is ALL rumor, with no substantiation. It appears to have begun on CB after a cryptic tweet by Ben Criddle. Someone picked it up and someone, trying to decide what Criddle's tweet meant started the thought that it must be Koroma. Let's not give in to conjecture. I'm as guilty as the next person, but I am hereby repenting. Let's not post or repost on something as serious as this until we know the actual facts, if there any. And then we need to be supportive of that individual, because, let's face it, we all make mistakes.

We need to stop this thread in its tracks. Duff Tittle sent out a strong rebuke on this topic. At this point, this is ALL rumor, with no substantiation. It appears to have begun on CB after a cryptic tweet by Ben Criddle. Someone picked it up and someone, trying to decide what Criddle's tweet meant started the thought that it must be Koroma. Let's not give in to conjecture. I'm as guilty as the next person, but I am hereby repenting. Let's not post or repost on something as serious as this until we know the actual facts, if there any. And then we need to be supportive of that individual, because, let's face it, we all make mistakes.



Update: if you go back to Ben Criddle's tweet, he makes it clear that it was not a specific reference to anyone in trouble. Wow! Was this EVER blown out of proportion. We seriously owe Tejan Koroma our apologies.

BYUBALLIN wrote:
Please say this is some horrible lie started by a Utes fan.

No, whats truly worse is this was started by BYU fans and salaciously spread by BYU fans, including, but not limited to mods on this site.

#theguiltyshouldalsobebannedtoCB. jk, on #,mostly

SkystheLimit wrote:
We need to stop this thread in its tracks. Duff Tittle sent out a strong rebuke on this topic. At this point, this is ALL rumor, with no substantiation. It appears to have begun on CB after a cryptic tweet by Ben Criddle. Someone picked it up and someone, trying to decide what Criddle's tweet meant started the thought that it must be Koroma. Let's not give in to conjecture. I'm as guilty as the next person, but I am hereby repenting. Let's not post or repost on something as serious as this until we know the actual facts, if there any. And then we need to be supportive of that individual, because, let's face it, we all make mistakes.



Update: if you go back to Ben Criddle's tweet, he makes it clear that it was not a specific reference to anyone in trouble. Wow! Was this EVER blown out of proportion. We seriously owe Tejan Koroma our apologies.

Plus one except for the update. We still have no idea if it was blown out of proportion. Hopefully Criddle recognizes/cares that his voice has gotten loud enough that what he says matters.



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BYU believes they can control the narrative by never releasing any information, or doing so begrudgingly weeks or months after the fact, they live in an unrealistic world where if they don't talk about something it shouldn't be talked about.



Guess what, when a kid is forced to clean out his locker every single one of his teammates knows about it, so does every staff member and student janitor. The word is going to get out and whether it's talked about on CougarCorner or in Elder's Quorum by a teammates dad to his friends everyone will soon know about it.



If BYU wants to mitigate the damage they should take a proactive PR approach as I'm sure Gunk can talk about and take charge of the story, not try to cover it up and bury it.

hawkwing wrote:
BYU believes they can control the narrative by never releasing any information, or doing so begrudgingly weeks or months after the fact, they live in an unrealistic world where if they don't talk about something it shouldn't be talked about.



Guess what, when a kid is forced to clean out his locker every single one of his teammates knows about it, so does every staff member and student janitor. The word is going to get out and whether it's talked about on CougarCorner or in Elder's Quorum by a teammates dad to his friends everyone will soon know about it.



If BYU wants to mitigate the damage they should take a proactive PR approach as I'm sure Gunk can talk about and take charge of the story, not try to cover it up and bury it.

I'm kind of feeling the same as hawkwing. If someone is off the team, that was on the team, then since certain college sports depend on fans for support to exist, then be up front. I don't have any problem with BYU saying that due to unforeseen circumstances, such and such a player was released from the team. We need to be responsible to respect individuals right to comment or not. It's not our right or business of the "why" of these situations, but it is appropriate for fans to know that certain players are no longer part of a team. If it wasn't for the fans of these sports, these athletes would not be receiving a scholarship and expenses, coaches wouldn't be receiving exorbitant salaries, etc. so this doesn't happen in a vacuum.



This has been an odd situation where a local sports radio host noted that there was relatively bad news coming and that began the speculation. That has happened EVERYWHERE there are people involved. It's not just a BYU thing.



The oddity of this situation is that someone commented in social media that Koroma's locker had been cleaned out, insinuating that he may not currently being an active member of the team. If that is true, then BYU should issue a statement. It seems a bit unusual that this many days later we have not had confirmation or denial if that fact is true. It could be that both items are not related, but based on past history, they most likely are.

Context is everything. Ben Criddle tweet DID NOT say that something really bad was coming. Again, go back and read the full tweet.



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Maybe he just got a new locker since the seniors all checked out. Probably moved into Bronson's locker.

but can we all agree that Criddle's tweet did not CAUSE the bad thing, or the good thing to happen... whatever they are.



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