Gordon Monson: All kinds of important questions are following AJ Dybantsa to BYU
The nation’s top basketball recruit comes with a hefty price tag and plenty of unknowns.AJ Dybantsa, a player who is considered not just the No. 1 basketball recruit in the country, but also the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft, signing with BYU is a national story that has spun across air and land like an arced Wilson aimed and released from deep toward the hoop.here, there, everywhere. BYU was carried right alongside.
In that sense, he’s worth the money he’s being paid for the combo-pack of production and publicity. People already are talking about BYU basketball in a way the Cougars are rarely talked about, and they will be focused on by networks and opponents and viewers and fans in a manner that comes along only once or twice in a Jimmer-moon.
Another question: Can Young make the now-you-see-him-now-you-don’t blur of new recruits work at BYU. John Calipari used that methodology at Kentucky when he was there. Other coaches have made the same attempt. Continuity remains important in the college game, so regardless of stars that come and go, there must also be rocksteady players who can be counted on to add glue to hold everything together.
That’s exactly one of the reasons it was cool to see a kid-star like Dybantsa choose a destination like BYU — because it’s not North Carolina or Kansas or Duke or UConn. It’s freaking BYU. That makes watching him and his development and his team there that much more intriguing. It wouldn’t have had to be BYU, it could have been Northwest Presbyterian State or Cal Baptist, and that kind of out-of-the-norm move makes it compelling.
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