Recruiting Utah’s high school talent got tougher over the last six months.
Not only do the local college coaches have to protect I-15, but they must battle recruiters off I-35 that goes through Texas and Oklahoma as well as I-94 out of Detroit to Ann Arbor.
This summer, Kyle Whittingham, Jay Hill and other members of their former Utah-connected staff moved to Michigan and kept their Utah recruit contacts. But now Oklahoma coach Brent Venables has decided he wants a part of the Utah-California pipeline and just committed the No. 1 and No. 3 ranked high school recruits in the state…