Shortly after AJ Dybantsa announced his commitment to BYU in December 2024, coach Kevin Young and the Cougars' staff hit pause on their celebrations to answer the next question: How could they build around him?
The No. 1 prospect of the 2025 high school class and the program's first five-star recruit since the ESPN recruiting database started in 2007 would be the Cougars' foundational building block, but they needed to assemble a winning team.
"Everybody had a different point of view," Justin Young, BYU's director of recruiting and Kevin's brother, told ESPN. "Do we need to have specific positions around him?