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A few months after becoming Oregon State's defensive coordinator last year, new BYU football coach Kalani Sitake participated in a satellite camp at Sandy's Alta High School, helping the Beavers and head coach Gary Andersen identify some of the best football recruits in Utah.

But coaches of Power 5 programs pushed legislation through the NCAA a few weeks ago that now bans the camps for all NCAA Division I schools. The new rules say schools can only hold camps at the facilities they regularly use for practice and/or competition.

Sitake's old boss, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, spoke out recently against the ban, saying it will hurt underprivileged youngsters who don't have the means necessary to make long trips to out-of-state schools.

Monday, I had the opportunity to ask Sitake about his feelings on the ban and, well, he won't share them. He did acknowledge that he planned on having some of the camps — in Arizona and California, which are traditional BYU recruiting hotbeds — until the ban came on April 8.

"I can see both sides of it," Sitake said. "I understand where everyone is making statements, has an opinion. I get that. But my job as head coach is whatever the NCAA says to do, we do it. It doesn't matter what my personal opinion is. I can see both arguments. But right now, the camps are off-limits, so we just plan accordingly."

Monday morning, Oiiver Luck, the NCAA's executive vice president of regulatory affairs, said he expects the NCAA to revisit the ban next year while speaking to a group of Ohio high school athletic officials.

"People have their strong opinions both ways. I get it," Sitake said. "But I am not really in a campaigning era to do one thing or the other. I just do what the NCAA says. I keep my personal feelings and my personal opinions to myself."

Sitake met with beat writers who cover BYU football and travel with the program to every game on Monday afternoon in a get-to-know-you type of deal. A few newsy tidbits came out of my session with the coach, but most of the information shared will be used in feature stories later this summer.

That said, here are a few developments, and a couple more comments:

* News broke later Monday afternoon that defensive back Jordan Preator is transferring away from BYU, so I wasn't able to ask the new coach about the former Fremont High star who has been in and out of the lineup for most of his career.

"For those text in, calling, messaging, yes I am transferring," Preator tweeted. "No, it isn't my option. Yes, it is the best thing for me. Thank you cougs!"

* BYU also released its post-spring depth chart on Monday. There aren't a lot of surprises — freshman Troy Warner and sophomore Akile Davis are listed as co-starters at left corner, showing how important participating in spring camp for early enrollee Warner proved to be. The depth chart did not include players who are expected to join the team in the fall, including Snow College transfer Handsome Tanielu, who was a mid-year transfer but did not participate in spring camp. The SUU graduate transfers (offensive linemen Keyan Norman and Andrew Eide) and Texas Tech transfer Tanner Jacobson are also not on the depth chart but are still expected to join the team in August.

Sitake said tight end Bryan Sampson, who was injured in the spring game, won't be back in time for fall camp, which starts in early August. He did not disclose Sampson's injury.

He said all the other players who missed spring camp due to injury — Travis Tuiloma, Kyle Johnson, Logan Taele and Kai Nacua are the main four — should return in August.

"If everything goes as planned, everybody else should be back," Sitake said.

* Sitake did not address center Tejan Koroma's situation, saying he won't comment on players who are not currently in the program. Everything I've heard from those close to Koroma, however, is that he is working toward returning to BYU after withdrawing from school in January. That decision, it appears, will be made by BYU's administration and not by its coaches.

* Sitake said he has spoken to a lot of NFL scouts about the draftability of BYU defensive end Bronson Kaufusi, mostly talking about playing against Kaufusi when he was at Utah. The other BYU senior whom scouts are calling a lot about is receiver Mitch Mathews, Sitake said. Again, he tells them about defending Mathews when he was at Utah.

* Sitake mentioned Utah's Whittingham several times in our chat today, calling him a mentor and a good friend. Those who expect the coaches of instate rivals to have a non-existent relationship — like Whittingham and Bronco Mendenhall had — will be disappointed.

Sitake said he and Whittingham already have a golf outing planned when the current recruiting period ends.

"We text and communicate quite a bit. I saw him last week at the National Football Foundation banquet. We got to talk a lot there. We talked to each other at Steve Young's fundraiser. He is always going to be one of my mentors. He's a good friend of mine. That will always continue. Same with Gary Andersen. Just like it was for me and LaVell Edwards. It has always been like that. I've had great men take time to help me along the way. That's always going to continue," Sitake said.

* I will have more on this later this summer, but Sitake basically said the quarterback battle between Taysom Hill and Tanner Mangum will continue throughout the summer and well into fall camp before a decision is made. He said neither guy got a leg up in spring camp, but acknowledged that Mangum's ability to do more (Hill was limited by the foot injury and then the untimely death of his brother) in camp helped him a lot.

"Awesome," was Sitake's description of the battle, saying some people may view it as a problem, but he views the competition as "a huge convenience."

Sitake said when it comes time to make the decision, he will get input from his coordinators and asst. coach Ed Lamb and will heavily rely on OC Ty Detmer before ultimately making the call himself.

"They are still going to compete and I think that the closer we get to the season, one will start to emerge. But the fact that we have two really good candidates is awesome. It is a great position to be in," Sitake said.

* Again, I will revisit this topic later in the summer, but I did ask Sitake about the talent level he has found at BYU compared to how it was at Oregon State and Utah. He said the "talent level here is better than at Oregon State, I can tell you that. Oregon State was a rebuilding thing for us there."

He stopped short of saying BYU's current talent matches that he saw at Utah before leaving that program after the 2014 season, instead veering off to talk about how preparing guys for the NFL draft is not his top priority.

"I have seen coaches focus on producing NFL players, and they don't really win games as much as they should, because the focus is beyond. My focus is on getting the team to be its best right now, so it can win games. And they did some great things under coach Mendenhall, and we will try to build off of that. But there are some things we can do as a staff and as a program to get these guys better for our program, and what I feel, and hopefully that translates into more NFL picks. If not, it is OK. I am not worried about producing NFL picks right now."

* Sitake won't hold firesides on the nights before game days, like Mendenhall did. However, BYU issued a news release on Monday outlining where coaches and assorted players will participate in FanFest events and firesides this spring.

FanFests will be held at Mesa, Arizona (April 23) at Pioneer Park in Mesa, at the LDS Church in Pleasanton, Calif. (3574 Vineyard Ave.) on May 7, at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City (Utah) on May 11, at Xango Field (3195 N. Ashton Blvd.) in Lehi, Utah, on May 12, at a TBA location in Irvine, Calif., on May 21 and at BYU-Hawaii campus in Laie, Hawaii, on June 4.

Firesides will be held in conjunction with the FanFests in Mesa, Irvine and Laie. Additional firesides are being planned for this spring in Michigan (East Lansing), Ohio (Montgomery), Washington D.C., Idaho (Pocatello) and American Fork.