Kalani Sitake feels that the BYU Cougars are on the precipice of greatness, or on the very least on the precipice of the Faculty Soccer Playoff.
Sitake and the Cougars went 12-2 final season with a win within the Pop-Tarts Bowl. They made the Huge 12 championship sport and will have very properly been a CFP workforce, however their two losses to Texas Tech in 2025 killed them.
They misplaced 29-7 in Lubbock after which 34-7 within the Huge 12 title sport.
It was, all in all, a terrific season for the Cougars, although, and Sitake has improved his total document to 84-45 and 6-2 in bowl video games.
He is undoubtedly top-of-the-line coaches in faculty soccer, as evidenced by the Penn State Nittany Lions’ all-out blitz to steal him away final season to switch James Franklin. Penn State settled on Matt Campbell after getting spurned by Sitake, however now the previous BYU fullback is asking for the varsity to reward his loyalty with slightly bit extra funding.
It is not cash for him. And it is actually not all about cash, both. He is searching for extra funding from BYU into his soccer program. He needs the Cougars to compete within the NIL area, and that takes cash to win over gamers, however it seems like he is additionally curious about different upgrades for this system.
“I stated earlier than, I don’t need to be the best bidder, however I’d wish to have entry to stuff like that, and that’s a reminder to the administration that you would be able to rely on us to do issues proper and be accountable with the funds to get the best program in place,” Sitake lately stated, per Cougar Sports activities Media (h/t On3). “Typically, you type of undergo this stuff. You’re like, ‘OK, that is going properly.’ And I’ve at all times simply been appreciative of the whole lot. However then, after I look again at it and my agent tells me, ‘Hey, that is the stuff that everyone else has.’ … It simply provides me a complete totally different appreciation for them.”
