Dick Harmon: Deploying analysts should help BYU keep pace in evolving college football landscape

Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

PROVO — Kalani Sitake will deploy analysts in BYU’s football program this fall. It’s a trend made popular by Nick Saban at Alabama.

There will be four analysts on Sitake’s staff this fall and those positions are in the process of being filled. There’s no formal announcement planned at this time as to who they are. No practices, no games, no rush. But they’re coming, according to athletic director Tom Holmoe, whom I bumped into this week at a Utah National Football Foundation event.

So, what do analysts do?

First, here's what they don't do.

The NCAA allows for 10 full-time assistant coaches. Unlike those assistants, analysts cannot coach players. They cannot…