I'm sure that most of my readers know about the lowering of the age in which young men and young women can serve missions. No one is more excited about this change than Bronco Mendenhall, Dave Rose and every other college coach that recruits heavily among the LDS population. Coaches at Utah, Utah State, Weber State, Southern Utah, Dixie State, Hawaii, Northern Arizona and Idaho State are very pleased with this announcement. The men's coaches are happy, especially the fall sports coaches. The women's coaches now get to pull their hair out.
But the men get to say to their recruits, "Go on your mission right when you graduate from high school." Most will be gone by the end of the year after they graduate. Most likely these men will all return and enroll in school by January. They will be able to participate in spring practice and in most cases will redshirt that first season back. It's is a much more manageable situation.
Now the mission burden is on the coaches of the women's teams.
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