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There was no media availability after practice today at BYU football's preseason training camp, so now seems like a good time to catch up on some of the news and notes from Tuesday's photo day chat session with head coach Kalani Sitake and a couple of players.

Relaxed, as usual, Sitake spent about 15 minutes answering a variety of questions, but got the biggest laughs when RBs coach Reno Mahe stuck his phone into the scrum and acted like a reporter.

"Reno needs to work harder, because he was named after that littlest biggest town, or whatever it is," Sitake quipped, when asked if Mahe would get Saturdays off.

Sitake didn't deliver much news, because most of the questions Tuesday were specific ones for stories. However, he did say that two players who have yet to make it into camp — defensive lineman Moses Folauhola, a transfer from Utah, and freshman Keanu Saleapaga, who signed in February and picked BYU over Colorado, and others — because they are "working through some stuff."

Also, Sitake said he almost certainly will conduct a scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday. How the team practices the next few days will determine the length and intensity of the scrimmage, he said.

Here are a couple more of Sitake's responses to, well, more important questions than how hard Mahe works:

On whether guys are in their natural positions:

"Yeah, we want the best 11 out there. We may change one to two people depending on what system we are going against. But we have guys that are going to flourish. You don't want to have a guy lose weight just so he can stay at a position. So if he is in his natural weight and feels better at defensive end and feels better there, then that's where you want him.

I don't want the guys starving themselves so they can play a position. I would rather have them eat freely."

On whether any players have made big strides the past week:

"I think the whole O line. The offensive line is much bigger and much stronger and I am happy about it. They are moving the line of scrimmage. In the spring, the defensive line was pretty much dominating the line of scrimmage, and now it is becoming a competition, and it is because of what they did in the offseason and the hard work that they did.

You can see when they walk around how much bigger our offensive linemen are, and some of them gained close to 40 pounds. You'd like to think it is all muscle. The strength gains comes confidence."

On whether any junior college guys or freshman have stood out:

"I am really impressed with the cornerbacks, Isaiah Armstrong and Chris Wilcox. I think they will be playing this fall. The corner group got better when we added them to the mix. We had some good corners already — and Troy Warner was here already, and Akile Davis has done a great job moving from receiver to corner.

And then we have Mike Davis there, and Mike Shelton, so it is a good group right now, and a lot of good numbers, but we will see who wins the spots out there. They have made us deeper at that position, just like, I think all of our signees will provide us more depth. That's what we needed. You get more depth , you get more competition. You will see more of that the next few weeks."

On what impact the new offensive linemen will have:

"Oh, it will be huge. You can't count anybody out as far as contributing. Some guys got really big and really strong. it would be crazy of us not to use them. We have to provide a good blocking picture for Jamaal and for Algie to run the ball. That is going to be a huge part of our offense.

Then we have some quarterbacks who can throw the ball, and we have receivers that can catch. I think developing the tight end position, and getting our O linemen to [inaudible] is vital to us right now."

On how close he is at BYU to developing Utah-type O and D lines:

"We are pretty close. I think you can't sit here and say they didn't do a good job with the O line before. They did. It is just changing the scheme. We are not trying to go as fast, and run as many reps. Our guys are getting bigger. Our focus was getting bigger and stronger, so I think we are close.

We are going to need these weeks in fall camp to get ready and we will see what the results would be. I am confident in the numbers, I just hope they progress the way we want them to.

If they do what they've done already in camp, I see no problems being ready against Arizona."